心智科學大型研究設備建置及共同使用服務計畫--大腦／心智與文化整合性研究

2011-08-012024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/697289摘要：探討心智的大腦基礎是本世紀蓬勃發展的一個學術領域，很多研究者都企圖瞭解各式人文社會現象的神經運作機制。唯研究人腦活動需依賴大型醫學工程儀器，這些設備無論 在購置、操作、維護與資料分析上，對數國內人文社會科學研究者而言，常是無法跨越的障礙，導致國內此一學術領域的研發落後國際甚多。有鑑於此，台灣大學特地聯合台灣師範大學與台北教育大學提出此一「大腦、心智與文化整合性研究推動」三年計畫，由台大在新建的醫學工程大樓內或其他國科會認可地點，提供空間設立一「大腦、心智與文化整合研究實驗室」，裝置偵測人腦用核磁共振造影設備(MRI)與腦磁波設備(MEG)各一套及其他附屬設施，由台大優秀的工程團隊負責運作、維護並將兩部機器進行系統整合，提供給全國人文社會科學研究者探討心智神經科學、教育神經科學、經濟神經科學、道德、犯罪與法律神經科學、藝術神經科學、以及任何與大腦運作相關的人文社會科學議題。同時為協助人文社會研究者能快速克服儀器使用或結果分析與解釋上的困難，本計畫提出為每套儀器設置一個五人的儀器運作服務團隊，負責在硬體維護與操作、軟體設計與執行、以及影像分析與神經系諮詢等幾個方面，支援人文社會研究者的研究工作。同時本計畫亦將舉辦定期教育訓練、訂定研究倫理規範與執行審查、設立研究諮詢顧問、組織特定議題討論 小組、以及設立工程、神經與人文社會科學三方的溝通平台，以協助人文社會科學研究者跨越長期存在於心智與大腦之間的學術研究鴻溝。本計畫的執行，將預期會擴大人文社會科學研究者視野與潛能，使其能從個體特質差異、文化生活經驗與生命發展演化三個向度 去思維與驗證人類心智功能與大腦結構間的關係，從而對「心—腦問題」、「先天—後天問題」以及「功能定位問題」這三個攸關心智運作的議題得到突破性的成果，為國內跨領域合作研究樹立良好典範。<br> Abstract: Searching for a brain basis of mind is a thriving area in the 21st century as disciplines including humanities and social sciences endeavor to unravel the neurobiological mechanisms underlying human behavior and social phenomena. However, the dependence of such research on expensive and sophisticated equipments has rendered a major obstacle for researchers in this country to carry out their studies on mind and brain. This has contributed to and will further aggravate our lag-behind in this field internationally. To resolve this problem, National Taiwan University, in cooperation with National Taiwan Normal University and National Taipei University of Education, proposes this project of “Initiative for Integrated Research on Brain, Mind and Culture”. In this project, National Taiwan University will offer a space in a to-be-newly-built Medical Engineering Hall or other two locations as designated by the National Science Council to install a set of magnetic resonance imaging equipment and a set of magnetoencephalography equipment, as well as other needed accessories. The operation, maintenance and integration of these two equipments shall be supported by the superb medical engineering technology in National Taiwan University. These two sets will be open to all humanity and social science researchers. Additionally, this project proposes to install a five-member supporting team to assist researchers of humanity and social sciences on hardware operation, software design and running, image analysis or neuroscience consulting, such that a researcher can invest his or her own effort on subject idea testing without worrying all difficulties that might be encountered during implementing the test on the machine. In order to facilitate a smooth transition into brain research for humanity and social science scholars, this project will also hold various types of training program, establish and promote research ethic standards, organize consulting groups, and device cross-communication mechanisms among disciplines. It is expected that this project will be able to enlarge the scope of view and enhance the capability of research for humanity and social science researchers, and will allow them to construe and test the mind-brain relationship by taking into account perspectives of individual characteristics, cultural impact and life development. The consequence of this joint effort may eventually lead to break-through on three fundamental issues in the realm of mind science: “mind-body problem”, “nature-nurture problem” and “functional localization problem”.核磁共振造影設備腦磁波設備心智&#63884程大腦活動文化社會情境核心儀magnetic resonance imagingmagnetocephalographymental processesbrain心智科學大型研究設備建置及共同使用服務計畫--大腦／心智與文化整合性研究