Training Grant in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：罗切斯特大学视觉科学中心（CVS）的21名教师要求更新对博士前和博士后培训计划的支持，该计划强调视觉的心理物理，生理和计算方法。培训是跨学科的，特别是利用该中心独特的技术和智力资源。它涵盖了广泛的视觉基础和临床问题，但强调将视觉表现与潜在神经机制联系起来的方法。我们要求每年为七名博士前学员提供支持，他们通常将通过大脑和认知科学，计算机科学，神经科学，生物医学工程或光学研究所进入该计划。学生参加核心课程加上视觉科学的高级研讨会，并通过他们进入该计划的部门的课程进行增强。与课程工作同时，学生在CVS preceptor实验室完成研究项目。 我们每年申请一名博士后研究员的支持。他们的训练非常重视研究。培训补助金将特别用于吸引其他领域的优秀科学家参与视觉研究。 我们还要求为八名暑期本科研究员提供奖学金，以参加我们开发的一个正在进行的项目，该项目旨在向学生介绍视觉科学研究，并招募学生参加视觉科学研究生培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Twenty-one faculty of the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester request renewal of support for a predoctoral and postdoctoral training program that emphasizes psychophysical, physiological, and computational approaches to vision. Training is interdisciplinary, drawing particularly on the unique technical and intellectual resources of the Center. It covers a broad range of basic and clinical problems in Vision, but emphasizes approaches that link visual performance to underlying neural mechanisms. We request each year support for seven predoctoral trainees, who will generally enter the program through Brain and Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or the Institute of Optics. Students take core courses plus advanced seminars in visual science, augmented by courses from the department through which they entered the program. Concurrently with course work, students complete research projects in CVS preceptor labs. We request each year support for one postdoctoral fellow. Their training has a heavy emphasis on research. The training grant will be used especially to draw talented scientists from other areas into vision research. We are also requesting stipends for eight summer undergraduate research fellows to participate in an ongoing program that we have developed to introduce students to research in vision science and recruit students into graduate training in visual science.