REU Site: ASL-English Bilingual Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience Training and Research Experience (ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE)

ASL-英语双语中心是一个为期八周的强化跨学科研究培训计划。本科学员将接受认知神经科学和神经成像方面的实践培训，培训对象是从事手语和耳聋相关主题研究的教育神经科学专家。这个跨学科的REU网站将通过提供高端的培训和研究经验，在几个神经成像技术，调查心灵和大脑，所有在一个完全无障碍的双语ASL-英语环境中，促进科学的进步。Gallaudet University的这种强化培训具有独特的优势，可以通过培训聋人和重听学生来支持研究和科学的多样性，这些学生通常由于系统性的语言障碍而在STEM领域代表性不足。学校将在学生的教育培训早期为他们量身定制，以最大限度地提高他们未来学术道路的利益。该提案具有独特的潜力，可以塑造学生的学术选择，促进STEM的成功，并确保未来一代多样化的研究人员和科学领导者的成功。 ASL-英语双语中心旨在为学生提供关键的早期研究经验，这将塑造他们的学术和职业决策。在认知神经科学方面提供独特和支持性的培训将提高学员在本国机构获得更多研究经验的竞争力，增加他们选择STEM相关课程的可能性，并培养对学术和研究保留至关重要的同行和导师网络。学员将获得最先进的神经成像技术的知识和培训，调查开创性的研究问题，体验研究实验室的日常进展，探索研究伦理，并参加职业生涯建设活动。通过几个多天的研讨会，学生将接受四种神经成像技术的实践培训：fNIRS，fMRI，EEG和心理生理学。活动范围从学习数据收集的实际方面到数据分析所需的基本技能。学生将被引导处理神经影像数据集。重要的是，沿着每个研讨会，学生将通过与历史上被排除在外的人群（如聋人和重听参与者）进行神经科学研究相关的道德反思进行指导。除了研讨会，学生将通过在博士认知神经科学实验室之一的实践研究经验，进一步磨练自己的技能。在教育神经科学（PEN）计划通过促进正在进行的研究活动。他们的工作将在最后的科学报告中达到高潮。为了确保在学术界的持续成功，学生将在暑期学校期间和之后接受PI和同行研究生的个性化指导。最后，由于ASL-英语双语中心，学生将成为一个更大的研究人员网络的一部分，视觉语言和视觉学习（VL 2）的所有成员，学习中心的NSF科学，在完全可访问的ASL内提供持久的对等网络，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估，优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE is an eight-week intensive interdisciplinary research training program. Undergraduate trainees will receive hands-on training in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging from experts in educational neuroscience working on topics related to sign language and deafness. This interdisciplinary REU Site will promote the progress of science by providing high-end training and research experience in several neuroimaging techniques for investigating the mind and brain, all within a fully accessible bilingual ASL-English environment. This intensive training at Gallaudet University is uniquely positioned to support diversity in research and science by training Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students who are typically underrepresented in STEM fields due to systematic language barriers. The school will be tailored for students early in their educational training to maximize the benefit for their future academic paths. This proposal has the unique potential to shape students’ academic choices, promote success in STEM, and ensure success for tomorrow's generation of diverse researchers and leaders in science. The ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE aims to provide students with critical early-stage research experiences that will shape their academic and career decisions. Providing unique and supportive training in cognitive neuroscience will increase trainees' competitiveness in securing more research experience at their home institution, increase their likelihood of selecting STEM-related courses, and foster a peer and mentor network essential for retention in academia and research. Trainees will gain knowledge and training in state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques, investigate groundbreaking research questions, experience day-to-day progress in a research lab, explore research ethics, and participate in career-building activities. Through several multi-day workshops, students will receive hands-on training in four neuroimaging techniques: fNIRS, fMRI, EEG, and psychophysiology. Activities will range from learning the practical aspects of data collection to the basic skills needed for data analyses. Students will be guided in processing neuroimaging datasets. Importantly, along with each workshop, students will be guided through ethical reflections related to conducting research in neuroscience with historically excluded populations, such as Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing participants. Beyond the workshops, students will further hone their skills through hands-on research experience in one of the cognitive neuroscience labs in the Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program by contributing to ongoing research activities. Their work will culminate in a final scientific presentation. To ensure continued success in academia, students will receive individualized mentoring from a PI and a peer graduate student during and beyond the summer school. Finally, thanks to the ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE, students will become part of a larger network of researchers, all members of the Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2), an NSF Science of Learning Center, providing an enduring network of peers within a fully accessible ASL-English bilingual environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.