Research Training in Learning, Development and Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求持续支持 在学习，发展， 和生物学，设在大脑和认知科学系， 罗切斯特大学。培训计划包括11名教员， 他们都研究人类复杂行为的学习和发展， 动物这个项目反映了我们对合成药物的潜力的认识。 学习的研究方法：计算，神经生理学， 学习和发育可塑性的行为研究提出了许多问题， 同样的问题，是相互信息;同时，他们带来了 对学习和发展问题的独特观点，以便 他们的融合带来了新的见解。因此，我们的计划旨在培养 学生在学习中的可塑性与发展的联合性 行为，计算和神经生理学方法的观点。 围绕着我们在大学的小组是在成熟的运作方案， 每一个相关的领域和系统。请求支持4 博士前和2博士后学生每年;当与其他结合 支持的来源，这允许大约10-12博士生在 这一计划，以及其他学生在相关方案。学员进入 通过大脑和认知科学系，并在核心训练 课程和高级研讨会在学习，发展和生物学，语言和 认知，知觉，基础和综合神经科学，并在研究 方法课程和研究经验的行为研究，计算 建模和神经科学研究。这种培训的广度是有可能的 事实上，我们的课程教师拥有5个不同学科的学位， 并从各种不同的角度对重叠问题进行研究， 方法论。我们目前的学员专注于学习和 发展可塑性是我们能够培养出高素质的学生， 吸引;我们最近的毕业生庆祝我们在安置我们的成功。 学生在学术和研究职位。

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.