Neuroimaging Core OverviewThe Neuroimaging Core will serves the goals of the Center by providing support for the facilities ans methods used to conduct human brain imaging and electrophysiology experiments. Projects 1-4 of the proposed Center all use MRI/fMRI/MR spectroscopy. The Neuroimaging Core will be a central resource for educational, technical, and experimental design assistance as well as MR methods development for Projects 1-4. The Neuroimaging Core will provide support in the following ways:
These aims will be supported by the Neuroimaging Core Director, a Ph.D. level MR physicist at Princeton University with experience in MRI/fMRI/spectroscopy methods and applications. She will be assisted in these efforts by a faculty member in the Chemistry Department, an M.S. level MR engineer, and an RF/electronics technician. The EEG studies proposed in Project 1 will be supported by the EEG facility at Princeton University through the guidance of its director, a Ph.D. level EEG research scientist, and an EEG technician. Administrative Core OverviewThe Administrative Core (Jonathan Cohen, Director) will coordinate Center logistical activities and oversee fiscal and reporting functions. The administrative core is crucial to the functioning of the Center. It will oversee operations of the Neuroimaging Core and the Computational Core. The Core will promote scientific interactions among projects, facilitate meetings among scientists at different sites, provide logistical support, help prepare reports and publications and be responsible for bookkeeping and fiscal reporting. One of the primary activities of the Administrative Core will be the coordination of meetings including the Annual Conference of the Project PIs in Princeton at which project progress and results are reviewed and plans are discussed how to best integrate results from each project into other relevant projects. A second critical responsibility of the Administrative Core will be to coordinate and oversee activities relating to the Center's Educational Initiative. The Center will provide training for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at each of the participating institutions through invitations to meetings, collaborations and the Annual Conference. In addition, the Center organizes an annual training program for graduate students, postdoctorals, research assistants and other individuals interested in the work of the Center and the area of cognitive neuroscience. The Administrative Core will also coordinate the activities relating to the NRSA Institutional Training Grant. Under the training grant, a curriculum of study and research experience has been designed to provide high quality research training and a close collaboration with the Center to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. A third principal function is to maintain the Center's Website www.csbmb.princeton.edu/ Center-related publications, and made available for download in compliance with current publishing standards. In addition, the Center maintains a series of Technical Reports, that are also available for download. Computational Core OverviewThe Computational Core will serve the Conte Center in five primary ways:
Overseeing these aims will be a Director (Singer), who has extensive experience in software design and computer hardware. Assisting him will be a Systems Manager (Tengi) who has efficiently fulfilled this role for the last six years. The Center PI (Cohen) will work closely with the Director to facilitate coordination of core activities with those of the other cores, the projects, and in facilitating new collaborations. Publications
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