Introducing Neuroscience and Neurocomputation Concepts to High School Students using Brain-based Neurorobots

使用基于大脑的神经机器人向高中生介绍神经科学和神经计算概念

• 批准号: 9763674
• 负责人: Gregory John Gage
• 金额: $ 31.25万
• 依托单位: BACKYARD BRAINS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9763674
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PROJECT SUMMARY Understanding the brain is a profound and fascinating challenge, captivating the scientific community and the public alike. The lack of effective treatment for most brain disorders makes the training of the next generation of neuroscientists, engineers and physicians a key concern. However, much neuroscience is perceived to be too difficult to be taught in school. To make neuroscience more accessible and engaging to students and teachers, Backyard Brains is developing neurorobots for education: fun and affordable robots with camera­eyes, wheels, WiFi and artificial software brains modeled on real biological brains. The neurorobot kit will allow students to investigate meaningful real­world questions about mind, brain and behavior by designing artificial brains that make the robot’s behavior life­like, sensory­guided and goal­directed. In Phase I of this project, students will work in groups to investigate the question “Why does my dog come to me when I call?” by designing neural networks that make the robot approach when called for. While the robot moves around in the classroom, students will be able to observe its visual sensory input and the flow of activity between its neurons on a smartphone or laptop, and interact with the brain using voice commands and a “reward button” that drives learning. By designing, testing and analysing neurorobot brains, students will acquire a practical understanding of neurons, synapses, neural networks, brain functions, and the relationship between brain and behavior, and develop important computational thinking skills and self­conception as neuroscientists. For Phase I we will develop neurorobot hardware and software, and collaborate with education specialists to develop and evaluate a short high­school instructional unit around neurorobots. Our overall Phase I goal is to demonstrate the feasibility and educational value of using neurorobots to teach high­school neuroscience. Our unique combination of low­cost robot hardware, innovative curriculum, and easy­to­use applications makes our product appealing to our large high­school, university, and amateur customer base. For Phase II we will expand the curriculum and the capabilities of our neurorobot kit, and create an online forum where students and teachers can share brains and discuss experiments. Our long­term aim is to encourage education policy makers to adopt neuroscience requirements by demonstrating an effective neuroscience curriculum organized around brain­based neurorobots. By combining neuroscience, a multidisciplinary field that spans biology, medicine, psychology, mathematics, and engineering, with robotics and a project­based approach to learning, our neurorobots and curriculum will improve STEM­education and inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and physicians.

项目摘要 了解大脑是一个深刻而令人着迷的挑战，吸引了科学界和 公共。对于大多数脑部疾病缺乏有效的治疗方法，都会训练下一代 神经科学家，工程师和医生的关键问题。但是，人们认为许多神经科学是 太难在学校教。使神经科学更容易获得，并为学生带来参与 老师，后院的大脑正在开发教育神经机器人：有趣而负担得起的机器人 摄像头，车轮，wifi和人工软件大脑以真实的生物学大脑为模型。 Neurorobot套件 通过设计，学生可以通过设计来调查有关思想，大脑和行为的有意义的现实世界的问题 人造大脑，使机器人的行为栩栩如生，感官指导和守门员。在第一阶段 项目，学生将小组努力调查一个问题：“为什么我的狗打电话给我？”经过 设计可在需要机器人接近的神经网络。当机器人在 教室，学生将能够观察其视觉感官输入及其神经元之间的活动流动 在智能手机或笔记本电脑上，并使用语音命令与大脑互动和“奖励按钮”驱动 学习。通过设计，测试和分析神经射击大脑，学生将获得实践理解 神经元，突触，神经元，大脑功能以及大脑与行为之间的关系，以及 作为神经科学家发展重要的计算思维能力和自我概念。对于第一阶段，我们将 开发Neurorobot硬件和软件，并与教育专家合作开发和评估 神经机器人周围的一个高中教学单元。我们的总体I目标是证明 使用神经机器人教高中神经科学的可行性和教育价值。我们的独特 Low Cost Robot硬件，创新课程和EasyTouse应用程序的结合使我们 吸引我们大型高中，大学和业余客户群的产品。对于第二阶段，我们将 扩展我们的神经射击工具包的课程和功能，并创建一个在线论坛 老师可以分享大脑和讨论实验。我们的长期目标是鼓励教育政策 通过展示有效的神经科学课程，制造者采用神经科学要求 周围是脑部的神经机器人。通过结合神经科学，这是一个跨越生物学的多学科领域， 医学，心理学，数学和工程学，具有机器人技术和基于项目的学习方法， 我们的神经机器人和课程将改善止动，并激发下一代科学家， 工程师和医生。