Mechanisms of learning across development and species

跨发展和跨物种的学习机制

基本信息

批准号：
10407559
负责人：
PATRICIA J. BAUER
金额：
$ 26.23万
依托单位：
EMORY UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-05-01 至 2024-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10407559
关键词：
Development Learning

项目摘要

The proposal is to renew a Training Program for Years 6-10, that trains predoctoral students in the mechanisms of learning across development and species. Learning is fundamental to adaptive behavior. It involves acquiring and modifying information, behaviors, and skills. Learning also is productive: it extends itself through induction, deduction, and integration. Mechanisms of learning is a critical area for predoctoral research training because learning has pervasive impacts in both adaptive and maladaptive behavior, and must be an integral part of any successful mental health or educational intervention. The Training Faculty are drawn from the Department of Psychology, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC), and the interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program, all of Emory University. The primary training sites are the Department of Psychology and the YNPRC. The 19-member Training Faculty approach the study of the mechanisms of learning as they manifest throughout development in healthy and clinical populations using genetic, comparative, computational, developmental, neurobiological, and neuropsychological techniques. They examine how additive and subtractive changes in the brain relate to developmental changes in learning, and how diverse species acquire and modify knowledge ranging from simple associations to culturally-mediated rituals and traditions. The diversity of ages, species, and circumstances in which learning mechanisms are studied at Emory provides rich opportunities for accumulation of converging evidence about these mechanisms, and thus for equipping the next generation of scientists with the skills necessary for understanding basic mechanisms of learning. Moreover, the training site is ideally suited to address the priority of the NIH to improve the translation of basic behavioral and social sciences research through our integration of basic research among the range of biological, behavioral, and social disciplines that contribute to the shaping of behavior across both ontogeny and phylogeny. We request three predoctoral trainees per year, each of whom will be trained for 3 years. Trainees are drawn from among Emory's highly-selective Laney Graduate School. Trainees complete all departmental/program requirements for the Ph.D. The Training Program provides added value through several specific enhancements, including (a) explicit co- mentoring and collaborative research experiences across species, ages or methodologies; (b) intensive training in grant and other professional writing; (c) advanced training in ethics and the responsible conduct of research; (d) participation in courses, workshops and research forums specific to research on learning across development and species; and (e) application of empirically supported best practices in graduate training, including vertical (faculty-student) and horizontal (peer learning) education models.

该提议是续签6 - 10年的培训计划，该计划培训了培训前学生跨发展和物种学习的机制。学习对于适应行为至关重要。它涉及获取和修改信息，行为和技能。学习也有效：通过归纳，推论和整合来扩展自己。学习机制是一个关键领域专用研究培训是因为学习对适应性和适应不良的影响都有普遍的影响行为，并且必须是任何成功的心理健康或教育干预措施不可或缺的一部分。这培训教师是从心理学系，耶克斯国家灵长类动物研究中提取的中心（YNPRC）和跨学科的神经科学研究生课程，埃默里大学。这初级培训站点是心理学系和YNPRC。由19名成员组成的培训教师对学习机制的研究在整个发展中表现出来使用遗传，比较，计算，发育，健康和临床人群神经生物学和神经心理学技术。他们检查了添加和减法的变化在大脑中，与学习的发展变化有关，以及多种物种如何获取和修改知识从简单的关联到文化介导的仪式和传统。多样性在埃默里（Emory）研究学习机制的年龄，物种和环境中积累有关这些机制的融合证据的机会，从而装备下一代科学家具有理解基本机制所必需的技能学习。此外，培训网站非常适合解决NIH的优先事项以改善通过基础研究的整合来翻译基本行为和社会科学研究在生物，行为和社会学科的范围内，有助于塑造跨个体发育和系统发育的行为。我们每年要求三名托管学员他们将接受3年的培训。学员是从埃默里（Emory）高度选择性的莱尼（Laney）中吸引的研究所。学员完成了博士学位的所有部门/计划要求。培训程序通过几个特定的增强功能提供附加的价值，包括（a）明确共同跨物种，年龄或方法论的指导和协作研究经验；（b）密集授予和其他专业写作的培训；（c）道德和负责任的高级培训研究的行为；（d）参与针对研究的课程，研讨会和研究论坛跨发展和物种学习；（e）应用经验支持的最佳实践研究生培训，包括垂直（教师）和水平学习模型。