Yearly Workshop in the Event-Related Potential Technique

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议的R25 NIH研究教育拨款的目的是继续支持一个非常成功的为期十天的事件相关电位（ERP）技术强化夏季培训研讨会。这项技术被广泛用于测量大脑活动的时间过程，跨越一系列基础科学和临床科学领域。工作坊的目的是为初级和中级ERP研究人员，它将为他们提供ERP技术的基本方面的培训，为他们进行正常和异常的精神和大脑功能的研究奠定坚实的基础。项目主任是一位知名的研究人员和教育家，他在处理ERP技术的基础科学和临床科学问题方面都有经验。研讨会将在加州大学戴维斯分校的心智与大脑研究中心举行，这里聚集了大量活跃的ERP研究人员。除了项目主任之外，来自加州大学戴维斯分校的11名教师和来自其他大学的3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、神经病学、精神病学、发展心理学、老年学、语言病理学和阅读障碍。这组多学科的参与者反映了erp在许多领域的广泛应用，这些领域关注神经和心理功能。参与者也将代表不同的职业阶段，包括研究生和医学院学生、博士后、住院医生、初级教员和高级教员，这反映了ERP技术现在被所有职业阶段的人所采用的事实。工作坊将包括讲座、讨论和实验活动。项目主管将提供ERP研究基础的综合讲座。讲座的特殊主题，包括先进的技术和应用到临床人群，将给予其他教师。还将包括几个小组讨论，由讲习班教师领导，将集中在以前发表的ERP论文中使用的方法。一系列的指导实验活动也将包括在内。重要的外联和传播工作将把这个讲习班的教育效益传播给更广泛的研究人员。这些努力基于一个网站http://erpinfo.org，该网站为全球研究界提供课堂讲稿、方法信息、数据分析软件和样本数据集。该项目的最终目标是提高未来ERP研究的质量和数量，以便这项重要的技术能够对许多关注人类思想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。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed R25 NIH Research Education Grant is to continue supporting a highly successful 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 three 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, that will focus on the methods used in previously published ERP papers. A series of guided lab activities will also be included. Significant outreach and dissemination efforts will spread the educational benefits of this workshop to a broader group of researchers. These efforts are based on a web site, http://erpinfo.org, which provides lecture notes, information about methods, data analysis software, and sample datasets to the worldwide research community. 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.