Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

简介（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领域的领导者和有前途的研究生，博士后研究人员和年轻教授。该提案寻求为该计划的延续提供五年的资金。该计划的重点是与该领域的最新进展保持同步，并使参与者接触到最新的快速出现的方法和发现。通过讲座、辩论、研究所参与者之间的密切互动，以及使用功能神经成像和经颅磁刺激等先进技术的实验室演示，参与者将有机会接触到广泛的技术和方法，这些技术和方法涵盖了与精神和大脑有关的所有领域。暑期学院的跨学科性质是其最显著的特点和宝贵的资产。未来5年，研究所将专注于快速发展的社会神经科学领域。例如，2007年暑期学院将涵盖的主题包括人类人格和个体差异的生物学基础、自我意识、他人作为社会代理人的意识，以及情绪处理在决策中的作用。夏季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，并通过鼓励成熟的科学领袖和年轻的、有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供了重要的服务。该研究所通过引起对当前发现前沿问题的关注和推进知识，直接为该领域的进步做出了贡献。认知神经科学暑期学院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，并通过鼓励成熟的科学领袖和年轻有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供了重要的服务。该研究所通过引起对当前发现前沿问题的关注和推进知识，直接为该领域的进步做出了贡献。

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.