Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：20年来，认知神经科学暑期研究所汇集了认知神经科学的领导者和有前途的研究生，博士后研究人员和年轻教授。这项提案寻求五年的资金，以继续该方案。该计划的重点是跟上该领域的最新进展，并使其参与者了解最新的快速新兴方法和发现。通过讲座，辩论，研究所与会者之间的密切互动，以及使用功能性神经成像和经颅磁刺激等先进技术的实验室演示相结合，为参与者提供了一个激烈和丰富的接触到广泛的技术和方法平分所有领域的思想和大脑。暑期研究所的强烈的跨学科性质是其最显著的特点和宝贵的资产。未来5年，该研究所将专注于快速发展的社会神经科学领域。例如，2007年暑期研究所将涵盖的主题包括人类个性和个体差异的生物学基础、对自我的认识、对他人作为社会行为主体的认识以及情绪处理在决策中的作用。暑期研究所通过为国家的年轻科学家提供独特的培训，促进跨学科的观点和合作，并鼓励建立科学领导者和年轻有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供了必要的服务。该研究所通过呼吁关注当前发现的前沿问题并提高对这些问题的认识，直接促进了该领域的发展。认知神经科学暑期研究所通过为全国的年轻科学家提供独特的培训，促进跨学科的观点和合作，并鼓励建立科学领导者和年轻，有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供必要的服务。该研究所通过呼吁关注当前发现的前沿问题并提高对这些问题的认识，直接促进了该领域的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For 20 years, the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has brought together leaders in Cognitive Neuroscience and promising graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young professors. This proposal seeks five years of funding for the program's continuation. The program focuses on staying up-to- date with the field's latest advancements and exposes its participants to the latest rapidly emerging methods and discoveries. Through a combination of lectures, debates, close interaction among Institute attendees, and laboratory demonstrations using advanced techniques such as functional neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation, participants are provided with an intense and rich exposure to a broad array of techniques and approaches bisecting all fields bearing on the mind and brain. The intensely interdisciplinary nature of the Summer Institute is its most defining feature and valuable asset. The next 5 years of the Institute will focus on the rapidly emerging field of Social Neuroscience. For instance, topics to be covered in the 2007 Summer Institute include the biological basis of human personality and individual differences, awareness of one's own self, awareness of others as social agents, and the role of emotional processing in decision making. The Summer Institute provides an essential service to the field by providing the nation's young scientists with unique training that fosters interdisciplinary perspective and collaboration and by encouraging cross- disciplinary exchange among both established scientific leaders and young, promising researchers. The Institute contributes directly to the advancement of the field by calling attention to and advancing knowledge of issues at the frontier of current discovery. The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience provides an essential service to the field by providing the nation's young scientists with unique training that fosters interdisciplinary perspective and collaboration and by encouraging cross-disciplinary exchange among both established scientific leaders and young, promising researchers. The Institute contributes directly to the advancement of the field by calling attention to and advancing knowledge of issues at the frontier of current discovery.