Research Training in Learning, Development and Biology

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案要求继续提供支持 为博士后和博士后培训计划学习，发展， 和生物学，设在斯坦福大学脑与认知科学系 罗切斯特大学。培训项目包括11名教职员工， 他们都研究人类复杂行为的学习和发展，并 动物。这一计划反映了我们对合成技术潜力的认识 学习研究的方法：计算、神经生理学和 关于学习和发展可塑性的行为研究询问了许多 同样的问题，并相互提供信息；同时，它们带来了 对学习和发展问题的独特视角，使 他们的融合带来了新的见解。因此，我们的计划旨在培训 学生在学习和发展中的可塑性从关节 行为、计算和神经生理学方法的观点。 围绕着我们大学团队的是成熟运作的项目 每个相关域和系统的。我们请求对%4提供支持 每年2名博士后和2名博士后；如果与其他 支持来源，这允许大约10-12名博士前学生在 这个项目，以及其他相关项目的学生。学员参赛 通过大脑和认知科学系，并接受核心培训 学习、发展和生物学、语言和高级研讨会课程和高级研讨会 认知、知觉、基础和综合神经科学及研究 计算行为研究的方法课程和研究经验 建模和神经科学研究。这种广度的培训是可能的 由于我们的项目教员拥有5个不同学科的学位 并从各种不同的角度对交叉问题进行了研究 方法论方法。我们目前的实习生专注于学习和 发展可塑性证明了我们能够培养出高质量的学生 我们最近的毕业生证明了我们成功地将我们的 从事学术和研究工作的学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests continuing support for a predoctoral and postdoctoral training program in Learning, Development, and Biology, housed in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. The training program includes eleven faculty members, all of whom study learning and development of complex behaviors in humans and animals. This program reflects our recognition of the potential for a synthetic approach to the study of learning: computational, neurophysiological, and behavioral investigations of learning and developmental plasticity ask many of the same questions and are mutually informative; at the same time, they bring distinctive perspectives to the problems of learning and development, so that their integration leads to new insights. Our program therefore aims to train students in the study of learning and developmental plasticity from the joint perspectives of behavioral, computational, and neurophysiological approaches. Surrounding our group at the University are programs in the mature functioning of each of the relevant domains and systems. We request support for 4 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral students per year; when combined with other sources of support, this permits approximately 10-12 predoctoral students in this program, as well as other students in related programs. Trainees enter through the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and are trained in core courses and advanced seminars in Learning, Development & Biology, Language & Cognition, Perception, and Basic and Integrative Neuroscience, and in research methods courses and research experience in behavioral studies, computational modeling, and neuroscience studies. This breadth of training is made possible by the fact that our program faculty have degrees in 5 different disciplines and conduct research on overlapping problems from a variety of different methodological approaches. Our current trainees with a focus on learning and developmental plasticity exemplify the high quality of students we are able to attract; our recent graduates exemplify the success we have had in placing our students in academic and research positions.