Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

 描述（由申请人提供）：认知神经科学暑期研究所将汇集认知神经科学的领导者和有前途的研究生，博士后研究人员和早期教授/科学家，进行为期两周的密集讲座和实验室课程，旨在研究学科前沿的主题。这项提案寻求五年的资金，以继续该方案。该应用程序增加了与Kavli基金会的独特合作，这将使数学，物理和工程科学的跨学科培训能够添加到认知神经科学课程中，以帮助开发具有真正跨学科培训和技能的新的大脑学者社区。暑期研究所的重点是在最新进展的培训领域领先，并使其参与者接触到迅速出现的方法和发现，包括获得工具和技术的能力，以及对转化科学的理解。通过讲座，辩论，暑期研究所参与者之间的密切互动，以及涉及功能性神经成像，经颅磁刺激和电生理学等先进技术的实验室，以及一系列分析方法和计算方法的组合，为参与者提供了广泛而丰富的现代技术和方法，这些技术和方法将所有领域一分为二。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。该研究所的未来5年将继续其成功的传统，同时也提供创新，以显着扩大和加强该计划。其中包括将数学，物理和工程科学的教师和学员纳入培训计划，并引入培训以实现工具和方法的能力。认知神经科学暑期研究所通过为国家的早期职业研究人员和临床科学家提供独特的培训，促进跨学科的观点和合作，并通过鼓励建立科学领导者和早期研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供了重要的服务。暑期研究所直接有助于该领域的进步，通过呼吁关注和推进与NIMH在基础和转化研究和培训方面的使命相关的当前发现前沿问题的知识。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience will bring together leaders in cognitive neuroscience and promising graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and early stage professors/scientists for an intensive two-week lecture and laboratory course aimed at topics on the cutting-edge of the discipline. This proposal seeks five years of funding for the program's continuation. This application adds a unique collaboration with the Kavli Foundation, which will enable interdisciplinary training in the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to be added to the curriculum in cognitive neuroscience in order to help develop a new community of brain scholars with truly interdisciplinary training and skills. The Summer Institute focuses on leading the field in training in the latest advances, and exposes its participants to rapidly emerging methods and discoveries, including the acquisition of competencies in tools and techniques, and an understanding of translational science. Through a combination of lectures, debates, close interaction among Summer Institute attendees, and laboratories involving advanced techniques such as functional neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and electrophysiology, and an array of analytic methods and computational methods, participants are provided with a broad but rich exposure to modern 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 continue its successful traditions while also providing innovations to significantly augment and enhance the program. These include the incorporation of both faculty and trainees from the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences into the training program, and the introduction of training to achieve competencies in tools and methods. The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience provides an essential service to the field by providing the nation's early career researchers and clinical scientists with unique training that fosters interdisciplinary perspectives and collaboration, and by encouraging cross-disciplinary exchange between established scientific leaders and early stage investigators. The Summer Institute contributes directly to the advancement of the field by calling attention to and advancin knowledge of issues at the frontiers of current discovery that are relevant to the mission of the NIMH in basic and translational research and training.