PSY 1472 - NEUROPSYCHOLOGY LAB

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This advanced research laboratory course will give students authentic and hands-on experience with the collection and analysis of behavioral and brain imaging data from individuals with brain damage due to stroke. Students will be assigned to a 3-person project team throughout the course. During class sessions, students will receive instruction and opportunities for hands-on practice of the component skills covered in a given week. Students will be expected to draw upon this instruction to complete a series of out-of-class requirements. The first quarter of the course will prepare students to administer a set of tasks assessing math and language abilities to individuals with localized brain damage due to stroke, and prepare project teams to assist with the collection of brain imaging data. In the second quarter of the course, each project teams will collect behavioral and brain imaging data from three research participants. In the third quarter of the course, students will learn how to code the behavioral and brain imaging data, and will use this knowledge to enter their results into a project database. In the final quarter of the course, students will learn methods for examining the relationship between the location of brain damage and its effects on cognitive abilities, and each team will use this knowledge in combination with available data to construct a final course presentation. The course is synergistic with a research project funded by the National Science Foundation on the brain basis of math and language abilities. The data collected by students in the course will eventually be incorporated into scientific publications and made publicly available to the scientific community. Students must have sufficient weekend availability to complete the required participant testing, provide evidence of a highly responsible work or research track-record, and have the motivation to commit 6-9 hours of time outside of the classroom each week.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0035 or 1031 or 0036 and 0037) and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100 or PSY 0201 or 0270 or Math 0133)

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