Training Grant in Vision Science

罗切斯特大学视觉科学中心(CVS)的21名教职员工要求 恢复对博士后和博士后培训方案的支持，该方案广泛强调两个 视觉研究的明确领域--使用心理物理学对中枢视觉处理的研究， 在生理光学中使用先进的生理、计算方法和研究 研究视网膜处理的基本问题和翻译的光学技术 眼科疾病研究。培训是跨学科的，特别是利用独特的技术和 中心的智力资源。它涵盖了广泛的基本和临床视力问题， 但强调将视觉表现与潜在的神经机制联系起来的方法。 我们要求每年支持六名博士前实习生，他们一般都会进入这个项目 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。学生们选修核心课程外加视觉科学方面的高级研讨会， 加上他们进入该项目所在系的课程。他们参加了 定期举行学术讨论会、研究会议和一年两次的CVS研讨会和秋季远景会议。 在完成课程工作的同时，学生在CVS教师实验室完成研究项目 请求每年支持一名博士后研究员。博士后培训的重点是 研究。培训补助金将特别用于吸引其他领域的有才华的科学家进入 视觉研究。我们还要求为八名暑期本科生提供津贴，以便 参与我们为向学生介绍视觉研究而开发的持续计划 并招收学生参加视觉科学的研究生培训。

Twenty one faculty of the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester request renewal of support for a pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program that emphasizes two broadly defined areas of vision research - research into central visual processing using psychophysical, physiological, and computational approaches and research in physiological optics using advanced optical techniques to study both basic questions about retinal processing and for translational research on eye disease. 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 six pre-doctoral 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. They attend regular colloquia, research meetings and the biannual CVS Symposium and Fall Vision Meeting. Concurrently with course work, students complete research projects in CVS preceptor labs We request each year support for one postdoctoral fellow. Postdoctoral 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.