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-English双语中心是一个为期八周的密集跨学科研究培训计划。本科学员将接受有关教育神经科学专家的认知神经科学和神经影像学培训，从事与手语和死亡有关的主题。这个跨学科的REU网站将通过在几种神经影像学技术中提供高端培训和研究经验来促进科学的进步，以调查思维和大脑，这都是在完全易于访问的双语性Asl-English环境中。加洛德大学（Gallaudet University）的这种深入培训是通过培训聋哑学生和听力障碍的学生来支持研究和科学多样性的，这些培训通常由于系统的语言障碍而在STEM领域的人数不足。该学校将在早期的教育培训中为学生量身定制，以最大程度地利用其未来的学术途径。该建议具有塑造学生学术选择，促进STEM的成功并确保明天的潜水员研究人员和科学领导者的成功的独特潜力。 Asl-English双语中心旨在为学生提供重要的早期研究经验，以塑造其学术和职业决策。在认知神经科学方面提供独特而支持的培训将提高学员在确保其家庭机构的更多研究经验，增加选择与STEM相关课程的可能性，并培养在学术界和研究中保留的同伴和心理网络的可能性。学员将获得最先进的神经影像学技术的知识和培训，调查开创性的研究问题，在研究实验室中体验日常进步，探索研究伦理，并参与职业建设活动。通过几天的多天研讨会，学生将接受四种神经影像技术的动手培训：FNIRS，fMRI，EEG和心理生理学。活动将从学习数据收集的实际方面到数据分析所需的基本技能。学生将被指导处理神经影像学数据集。重要的是，与每个研讨会一起，学生将通过与历史上排除的人群（例如聋哑人和听力障碍参与者）进行神经科学研究有关的道德思考。除了讲习班外，学生还将通过博士学位的认知神经科学实验室之一的动手研究经验进一步磨练自己的技能。在教育神经科学（PEN）计划中，通过为正在进行的研究活动做出贡献。他们的工作将在最终的科学演讲中达到顶峰。为了确保在学术界的持续成功，学生将在暑期学校和之外的PI和同伴研究生中获得个性化的心理。 Finally, thank you 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 ending 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 标准。