200222 SE Theorie und Empirie wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens (Geist und Gehirn) 1 (2023S)

In order to participate you must have access to a computer that meets the technical requirements to run MATLAB https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html and the Psychophysics Toolbox http://psychtoolbox.org/download.html . In addition, MATLAB must be installed and working already at least for the second session on 06.03.2023!

The course will convene in digital form for 3 sessions and then continue in-person with theoretical lectures and practical programming exercises.
The course is entirely given in English.
The max. number of students for the course is 20.

[AIMS]
The course teaches the programming and theoretical knowledge necessary to run simple behavioral (and EEG) experiments using MATLAB and the Psychophysics Toolbox. The course specifically focuses on gaining a basic understanding of the MATLAB programming language. Please consider the other TEWA1 courses on offer if you are interested in learning other programming languages (e.g., Python)!

At course completion, students should be able to independently program and run simple psychological experiments. In addition, a theoretical research topic will provide the basis for the programmed experiments. The focus will be on the role of ongoing neuronal oscillations (e.g., alpha, theta), as well as, ERPs (N2pc) in visual perception and attention. Students will present relevant articles, as well as, a research proposal in class and as a final assignment submit a complete MATLAB script running the proposed experiment(s). Programming tutorials will alternate with exercise sessions, theoretical lectures and student presentations.

[METHODS:]
Practical MATLAB programming sessions, oral presentations by lecturer and students, in-class participation, weekly homework, oral presentations of proposed experiments, written MATLAB scripts for demo and full experiments.