REU Site: ASL-English Bilingual Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience Training and Research Experience (ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE)

REU网站：ASL-英语双语认知和教育神经科学培训和研究经验（ASL-英语双语中心）

• 批准号: 2349454
• 负责人: ilaria berteletti
• 金额: $ 44.96万
• 依托单位: Gallaudet University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349454&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; ASL; English; Bilingual

The ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE is an eight-week intensive interdisciplinary research training program. Undergraduate trainees will receive hands-on training in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging from experts in educational neuroscience working on topics related to sign language and deafness. 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 intensive training at Gallaudet University is uniquely positioned to support diversity in research and science by training 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 early 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 ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE aims 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 neuroimaging 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 a final 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 ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE, 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.

ASL-英语双语中心是一项为期八周的强化跨学科研究培训计划，本科生学员将接受来自教育神经科学专家的认知神经科学和神经影像学实践培训，研究领域涉及手语和耳聋。通过提供多种神经影像技术的高端培训和研究经验来促进科学进步，以研究思想和大脑，所有这些都在完全无障碍的美国手语-英语双语环境中进行。大学在支持研究和科学的多样性方面拥有独特的优势，通过培训聋哑和听力障碍学生，这些学生由于系统性语言障碍而在 STEM 领域通常代表性不足。学校将为学生在教育培训的早期进行量身定制，以最大限度地提高他们的利益。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，并确保未来一代多元化的研究人员和科学领导者的成功。 ASL-英语双语中心旨在为学生提供关键的知识。早期研究经验将影响他们的学术和职业决策，提供认知神经科学方面的独特和支持性培训将提高学员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，并培养他们的能力。同行和导师网络对于保留学术界和研究至关重要。学员将获得最先进的神经影像技术的知识和培训，调查突破性的研究问题，体验研究实验室的日常进展，探索研究伦理，并参与职业建设通过多个为期数天的研讨会，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知识到数据分析所需的基本技能。重要的是，在每个研讨会上，学生将受到与历史上被排除在外的人群（例如聋哑人和听力障碍参与者）相关的伦理反思的指导。学生将通过在教育神经科学博士 (PEN) 项目的认知神经科学实验室之一的实践研究经验，通过为正在进行的研究活动做出贡献，进一步磨练他们的技能。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 和同级研究生的个性化指导。最后，借助 ASL-英语双语中心，学生将成为更大的网络的一部分。研究人员、视觉语言和视觉学习 (VL2) 的所有成员，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 ASL-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，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。