REU Site: ASL-English Bilingual Summer School in Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience

REU 网站：ASL-英语认知和教育神经科学双语暑期学校

• 批准号: 2150106
• 负责人: ilaria berteletti
• 金额: $ 10.31万
• 依托单位: Gallaudet University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150106&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; ASL; English; Bilingual

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. The Bilingual ASL-English Summer School in Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience is a six-week intensive interdisciplinary research training program. Undergraduate trainees will receive hands-on training in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging from experts in the field of educational neuroscience. This interdisciplinary REU Site will promote the progress of science by providing high-end training and research experience in several neuroimaging techniques for investigating the mind and brain, all within a fully accessible bilingual ASL-English environment. This Summer School at Gallaudet University is uniquely positioned to support diversity in research and science by providing training to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students who are typically underrepresented in STEM fields due to systematic language barriers. The school will be tailored for students who are at an early stage in their educational training to maximize the benefit for their future academic paths. This proposal has the unique potential to shape students’ academic choices, promote success in STEM, and ensure success for tomorrow’s generation of diverse researchers and leaders in science. The goal of the Summer School is to provide students with critical early-stage research experiences that will shape their academic and career decisions. Providing unique and supportive training in cognitive neuroscience will increase trainees’ competitiveness in securing more research experience at their home institution, increase their likelihood of selecting STEM-related courses, and foster a peer and mentor network essential for retention in academia and research. Trainees will gain knowledge and training in state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques, investigate groundbreaking research questions, experience day-to-day progress in a research lab, explore research ethics, and participate in career-building activities. Through several multi-day workshops, students will receive hands-on training in four neuroimaging techniques: fNIRS, fMRI, EEG, and psychophysiology. Activities will range from learning the practical aspects of data collection to the basic skills needed for data analyses. Students will be guided in processing fMRI, fNIRS, and EEG datasets. Importantly, along with each workshop, students will be guided through ethical reflections related to conducting research in neuroscience with historically excluded populations, such as Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing participants. Beyond the workshops, students will further hone their skills through hands-on research experience in one of the cognitive neuroscience labs in the Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program by contributing to ongoing research activities. Their work will culminate in an end-of-school scientific presentation. To ensure continued success in academia, students will receive individualized mentoring from a PI and a peer graduate student during and beyond the summer school. Finally, thanks to the Summer School, students will become part of a larger network of researchers, all members of the Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2), an NSF Science of Learning Center, providing an enduring network of peers within a fully accessible ASL-English bilingual environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目由 SBE 理事会的本科生研究经验 (REU) 项目资助，因此具有科学和社会效益，并将认知和教育神经科学双语 ASL-英语暑期学校融为一体。是一个为期六周的密集跨学科研究培训项目，本科生将接受教育神经科学领域专家的认知神经科学和神经影像学实践培训。这个跨学科的 REU 网站将促进这一进展。加劳德特大学暑期学校通过在完全无障碍的美国手语-英语双语环境中提供多种用于研究思想和大脑的神经影像技术的高端培训和研究经验，在支持研究和科学的多样性方面发挥了独特的作用。为因系统性语言障碍而在 STEM 领域代表性不足的聋哑和听力障碍学生提供培训。该学校将为处于教育培训早期阶段的学生量身定制，以最大限度地帮助他们未来的学术道路。 。该提案具有独特的潜力，可以塑造学生的学术选择，促进 STEM 的成功，并确保未来一代多样化的研究人员和科学领导者的成功。暑期学校的目标是为学生提供关键的早期研究经验。提供认知神经科学方面的独特和支持性培训将影响他们的学术和职业决策，将提高受训者在其所在机构获得更多研究经验的竞争力，增加他们选择 STEM 相关课程的可能性，并培养对学习至关重要的同伴和导师网络课程。在学术界和研究领域的保留。学员将获得最先进的神经影像技术的知识和培训，研究突破性的研究问题，体验研究实验室的日常进展，探索研究伦理，并通过多项多元活动参与职业建设活动。在日间研讨会上，学生将接受四种神经影像技术的实践培训：fNIRS、fMRI、EEG 和心理生理学。活动范围从学习数据收集的实际方面到数据分析所需的基本技能。功能磁共振成像，重要的是，在每次研讨会上，学生都将接受与聋哑人和听力障碍参与者等历史上被排除在外的人群进行神经科学研究相关的道德反思。除了研讨会之外，学生还将进一步磨练。他们的工作将通过在教育神经科学博士 (PEN) 项目的一个认知神经科学实验室的实践研究经验来提高他们的技能，并为正在进行的研究活动做出贡献。为了确保在学术界持续取得成功，学生将在暑期学校期间和之后接受 PI 和同行研究生的个性化指导。最后，通过暑期学校，学生将成为更大的研究人员网络的一部分，所有成员都是研究人员。视觉语言和视觉学习 (VL2) 是 NSF 科学学习中心，在完全无障碍的美国手语-英语双语环境中提供持久的同行网络。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。