Yearly Workshop in the Event-Related Potential Technique

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议的R25 NIH研究教育补助金的目的是支持在事件相关电位（ERP）技术每年为期十天的密集夏季培训研讨会。该技术被广泛用于测量基础科学和临床科学领域的大脑活动的时间过程。该研讨会的目的是为开始和中级ERP研究人员，它将为他们提供ERP技术的基本方面的培训，为他们进行研究心理和大脑的正常和异常功能奠定坚实的基础。项目主任是一位成熟的研究人员和教育工作者，他在使用ERP技术解决基础科学和临床科学问题方面具有丰富的经验。研讨会将在加州大学戴维斯分校的心智与大脑中心举行，该中心是ERP研究人员的大型和充满活力的社区。除了项目主任外，加州大学戴维斯分校的11名教师和其他大学的2名教师将担任年度研讨会的教师。研讨会的参与者将来自不同的学科，包括认知科学，认知神经科学，临床心理学，实验精神病理学，神经学，精神病学，发展心理学，老年学，言语病理学和阅读障碍。这个多学科的参与者群体反映了ERP在许多关注神经和心理功能的领域中的广泛应用。参与者还将代表各种职业阶段，包括研究生和医学生，博士后，居民，初级教师和高级教师，这反映了ERP技术现在被所有职业阶段的人所采用的事实。研讨会将包括讲座、讨论和实验室活动。项目主任将提供一套关于ERP研究基础的综合讲座。专题讲座，包括先进的技术和临床人群的应用，将由其他教师。几个小组讨论也将包括，由研讨会教师领导。这些将主要集中在审查以前出版的ERP文件中使用的方法。还将包括一系列有指导的实验室活动，从ERP记录会议开始，一直持续到数据处理和分析的每一步。大脑中心的六个实验室将用于记录会议，并将建立一个计算机实验室进行数据处理和分析活动。该项目的最终目标是提高未来ERP研究的质量和数量，使这项重要技术能够对许多关注人类思维和大脑的基础科学和临床学科的科学进步产生更大的影响。该项目将提供密集培训，以使用一种技术，用于测量健康人和患有精神和大脑疾病的人从婴儿到老年的大脑电活动。这种强化的培训将使科学家在理解正常大脑的运作以及理解和测量各种精神和神经疾病方面取得更快的进展，这将最终导致改善对这些疾病的诊断以及改善对新治疗方法的评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed R25 NIH Research Education Grant is to support a yearly ten-day intensive summer training workshop in the event-related potential (ERP) technique. This technique is widely used to measure the time course of brain activity across a range of basic science and clinical science domains. The workshop is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, and it will provide them with training in the essential aspects of the ERP technique, giving them a solid foundation for conducting research on normal and abnormal functioning of the mind and brain. The project director is a well-established researcher and educator who has experience addressing both basic science and clinical science questions with the ERP technique. The workshops will be held at the Center for Mind & Brain at UC-Davis, the home of a large and vibrant community of ERP researchers. In addition to the project director, eleven faculty from UC-Davis and two faculty from other universities will serve as the faculty for the yearly workshops. The workshop participants will come from a variety of disciplines, including cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental psychopathology, neurology, psychiatry, developmental psychology, gerontology, speech pathology, and reading disorders. This multi- disciplinary group of participants reflects the broad use of ERPs across the many domains that focus on neural and mental functioning. The participants will also represent a variety of career stages, including graduate and medical students, postdocs, residents, junior faculty, and senior faculty, which reflects the fact that the ERP technique is now being adopted by people at all career stages. The workshop will involve a combination of lectures, discussions, and laboratory activities. An integrated set of lectures on the fundamentals of ERP research will be given by the project director. Lectures on special topics, including advanced techniques and applications to clinical populations, will be given by the other faculty. Several small-group discussions will also be included, led by the workshop faculty. These will primarily focus on examining the methods used in previously published ERP papers. A series of guided lab activities will also be included, beginning with an ERP recording session and continuing through each step of data processing and analysis. Six laboratories at the Center for Mind & Brain will be used for the recording session, and a computer lab will be set up for the data processing and analysis activities. The ultimate goal of this project is to increase the quality and quantity of future ERP research so that this important technique can have a greater impact on scientific progress in the many basic science and clinical disciplines that focus on the human mind and brain. This project will provide intensive training in the use of a technique that is used to measure the brain's electrical activity in both healthy individuals and individuals suffering from disorders of the mind and brain, from infancy through old age. This enhanced training will allow scientists to make more rapid progress in understanding the operation of the normal brain and in understanding and measuring a variety of mental and neural disorders, which will ultimately lead to improved diagnosis of these disorders as well as improved assessments of new treatments.