NeurVision: Teaching neuroscience with neuroimaging data

描述(由申请者提供)：这项小型企业创新研究(SBIR)申请的目标是创建补充教育材料，以填补本科神经科学和行为科学课程中的一个主要空白：缺乏教育工具，使学生有机会通过动手操作神经成像数据来学习神经科学。这个第一阶段的项目将评估制作多媒体光盘(学生版和教师版)、教师手册和学生练习册的可行性，以补充本科生心理学、生物学、神经科学和其他科学课程中使用的课程。题为神经视觉：用神经成像数据教授神经科学，这些材料将让学生利用领先的神经成像科学家提供的真实数据，对成瘾、记忆、语言、情感和意识进行基于发现的探索。学生将制定假设，设计实验，处理和分析脑成像数据，进行统计分析，根据他们的分析得出结论，并将研究结果写在研究报告中。该项目对图像处理和图像分析的重视将为当今以视觉为导向的本科生提供一种新颖和容易获得的学习体验。NeuroVisions将采用的“混合”结构将在每节课中包括一个学习和应用模块(LAM)和一个研究和发现模块(RDM)。这种结构将帮助学生从LAMS中简单的成像数据探索过渡到RDMS中对完整数据集的深入统计研究。因此，混合结构将增加NeuroVisions材料的灵活性。希望向学生介绍神经成像和关键神经科学概念的调查课程的讲师将使用；研究方法和其他深入课程的讲师将添加RDMS。该项目将完成六个里程碑：(1)最终确定NeuroVisions材料的目录；(2)为教学材料规划新的基于Java的功能；(3)为全套NeuroVisions材料开发原型课程；(4)在两个本科院校现场测试原型课程；(5)制定计划，在全美的本科机构实地测试全套NeuroVisions材料；以及(6)为课程制定商业化计划。参与该项目的有加州大学洛杉矶分校的Ahmanson Lovelace脑成像中心、伦敦大学学院惠康成像神经科学系的功能成像实验室、WestEd地区教育实验室、亚利桑那大学心理系和北卡罗来纳州的戴维森学院。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) application is to create supplemental educational materials that will fill a major void in the undergraduate neuroscience and behavioral science curriculum: A lack of educational tools that give students the opportunity to learn neuroscience by working hands-on with neuroimaging data. This Phase 1 project will evaluate the feasibility of creating multimedia CD-ROMs (student and teacher's versions), a teacher's manual, and a student workbook that will supplement curricula used in undergraduate psychology, biology, neuroscience, and other science courses. Entitled NeuroVisions: Teaching neuroscience with neuroimaging data, the materials will involve students in discovery-based explorations of addiction, memory, language, emotion, and consciousness with real data provided by leading neuroimaging scientists. Students will formulate hypotheses, design experiments, process and analyze brain imaging data, perform statistical analyses, draw conclusions based on their analyses, and write up findings in research reports. The project's emphasis on image manipulation and image analysis will afford a novel and accessible learning experience for today's visually oriented undergraduate students. The "hybrid" structure to be employed in NeuroVisions will include a learning and application module (LAM) and research and discovery module (RDM) in each lesson. This structure will help bridge students from the simple explorations of imaging data in the LAMS to in-depth, statistical research on complete data sets in the RDMs. The hybrid structure will thus increase the flexibility of the NeuroVisions materials. Instructors of survey courses who wish to introduce students to neuroimaging and key neuroscience concepts will use the; Instructors of research methods and other in-depth classes will add the RDMs. Six milestones will be accomplished during project: (1) finalize a table of contents for the NeuroVisions materials; (2) program new Java-based features for the instructional materials; (3) develop a prototype lesson for the full set of NeuroVisions materials; (4) field-test the prototype lesson at two undergraduate institutions; (5) develop a plan for field-testing the full set of Neurovisions materials at undergraduate institutions throughout the United States; and (6) create a commercialization plan for the lessons. Collaborating in the project is the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA; the Functional Imaging Laboratory at University College of London's Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience; WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory; the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona; and Davidson College in North Carolina.