The Neural Basis of Attention: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Rafal

注意力的神经基础：纪念罗伯特·拉法尔的纪念文集

• 批准号: 1748038
• 负责人: Tony Ro
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748038&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Neural; Basis; Attention; Festschrift; Honor

At any given instance, there is typically far more information in the world than our visual systems can handle. For example, while reading this sentence, only a small proportion of the letters and words are processed at any given time. Although seemingly simple, the process of selectively attending to some information while ignoring other information requires the orchestration of many different brain areas, each of which contributes differentially towards this feat. This workshop will bring together international experts to discuss how the human brain focuses attention. In addition to covering historical and contemporary perspectives on the neural basis of attention, speakers will pay special tribute to the substantial contributions and influences of Professor Robert Rafal, a cognitive and behavioral neurologist whose career focused on better understanding the neural underpinnings of attention, consciousness, eye movements, and perception. This award will primarily fund travel for deserving students and early career stage researchers in the field and publications costs associated with producing a special edited volume from this meeting.The meeting will take place on March 22-23, 2018 in the Segal Theater of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The talks and edited volume will highlight some of the important mainstay principles of attention research, as well as ones that have been substantially revised or overturned. Furthermore, unlike most other conferences and workshops, which tend to schedule more established researchers as speakers, this workshop will include speakers of varying experiences and ages, ranging from current and recent students to established senior researchers. Speakers will include several prominent female speakers, which should be especially inspiring for the younger female researchers and attendees. Additionally, specific efforts will be made to include a diverse group of student attendees, including invitations to underrepresented minority high school students and undergraduates in the STEM fields at CUNY, a highly diverse public institution in New York City. The student attendees should greatly benefit from the knowledge to be gained from attending this workshop and may decide to pursue a research or academic career focusing on better understanding the neural basis of attention.

在任何给定的情况下，世界上的信息通常远远超过我们的视觉系统可以处理的信息。例如，在阅读这个句子时，在任何给定时间只处理一小部分字母和单词。虽然看似简单，但选择性地关注某些信息而忽略其他信息的过程需要协调许多不同的大脑区域，每个区域对这一壮举的贡献不同。本次研讨会将汇集国际专家，讨论人脑如何集中注意力。除了涵盖注意力神经基础的历史和当代观点外，演讲者还将特别赞扬罗伯特·拉法尔教授的重大贡献和影响，他是一位认知和行为神经学家，其职业生涯专注于更好地理解注意力、意识、眼球运动和知觉。该奖项主要用于资助该领域有资格的学生和早期职业阶段研究人员的旅费，以及与制作本次会议特别编辑卷相关的出版费用。会议将于 2018 年 3 月 22 日至 23 日在研究生 Segal 剧院举行纽约城市大学中心。演讲和编辑卷将重点介绍注意力研究的一些重要支柱原则，以及已被大幅修改或推翻的原则。此外，与大多数其他会议和研讨会倾向于安排更多资深研究人员作为演讲者不同，本次研讨会将包括不同经验和年龄的演讲者，从当前和最近的学生到资深研究人员。演讲者将包括几位著名的女性演讲者，这对年轻的女性研究人员和与会者来说尤其具有启发性。此外，我们还将做出具体努力，吸引多元化的学生参加者群体，包括邀请纽约市立大学（纽约市立大学）STEM 领域代表性不足的少数族裔高中生和本科生，纽约市立大学是纽约市高度多元化的公共机构。学生参加者应该从参加本次研讨会所获得的知识中受益匪浅，并可能决定从事研究或学术生涯，重点是更好地理解注意力的神经基础。