TRAINING PROGRAM IN INTEGRATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS

描述(申请人提供)：发展是从更少的东西中创造出更多的东西--从大量相同的细胞中创造出四肢、心脏或大脑，从无助的哭闹的婴儿中创造出会走路的蹒跚学步的孩子，从一个判断与直接感知输入紧密联系在一起的孩子对时间、数字和空间进行推理。不断进步的知识表明，这些显着的后果是嵌套过程中出现的自组织系统的产物，以及在许多时间尺度和分析水平上相互作用的机制。如果我们要了解发育机制，那么科学家必须接受培训，在不同的分析水平上整合变化过程--从大脑到行为--在不同的时间尺度上--从神经元活动的毫秒到任务的秒和分钟，再到学习和成长的天、月和年。因此，需要资金来支持5名博士后实习生和4名博士后实习生，这是一个高度协作和跨学科的社区，其共同愿景是对培训和研究采取综合办法。培训教师组成了一个紧密联系的社区，由印第安纳大学的5个单元(心理学、言语和听觉科学、验光、计算机科学、运动学)组成。培训是通过课程工作、教员实验室的研究以及专门的培训研讨会、研讨会和座谈来完成的。所有受训人员必须在至少两个实验室工作，并必须参加正在进行的DTG综合研讨会。我们需要积极参与两个实验室，以便受训者可以超越他们的主要导师，在不同水平的分析和时间尺度上综合方法和进展，并在这样做时准备走在发展科学发展的前沿。简而言之，这是一个前瞻性的培训计划，建立在强大和持续的基础上，理论驱动，高度跨学科，教职员工和受训人员之间的合作研究，到目前为止，在培养准备做出成绩的令人兴奋的年轻科学家方面取得了巨大成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Development is about creating something more from something less -a limb or heart or brain from a mass of identical cells, a walking talking toddler from a helpless crying infant, a child who reasons about time, number and space from one whose judgments are tightly tied to the immediate perceptual input. Advancing knowledge suggests that these remarkable consequences are the product of a self-organizing system emergent in nested processes and mutually interacting mechanisms over many time scales and levels of analysis. If we are to understand developmental mechanisms, then, scientists must be trained to integrate processes of change at different levels of analysis - from the brain to behavior - and at different times scales --from the milleseconds of neuronal activity to the seconds and minutes of tasks to the days, months and years of learning and growth. Accordingly, funds are requested to support 5 pre-doctoral and 4 post-doctoral trainees in a strongly collaborative and interdisciplinary community with a shared vision of an integrative approach to both training and research. The Training faculty forms a close-knit community from 5 units at Indiana University (Psychology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Optometry, Computer Science, Kinesiology). Training is accomplished through course work, research in the laboratories of the faculty, and specialized training seminars, workshops, and colloquia. All trainees are required to work in at least two laboratories and must attend the on-going integrative DTG seminar. We require active participation in two laboratories so that trainees may go beyond their primary mentor in synthesizing methods and advances at different levels of analyses and times scales, and in so doing be prepared to be at the forefront of where developmental science is going. In brief, this is a forward-looking training program built on a strong and continuing base of theoretically driven, highly interdisciplinary, and collaborative research among faculty and trainees, and one that has, to date, been highly successful in producing exciting young scientists ready to make their mark.