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C-NERVE
A Cognitive-Neuroscience Education & Research-Valued Experience
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
The scientific study of how complex mental functions such as
perception, memory, language and emotion are implemented
within the brain.
What will undergraduate members
of C-NERVE do?
What is C-NERVE?
• Facilitate the creation of a learning community
• Students and faculty interested in basic and applied research
on brain-behavior relations
• Create activities to reach out to underrepresented groups
• Faculty and students will visit technical colleges and high
schools throughout the upper midwest
• We will attempt to identify potentially interested students for
recruitment
•Field Trips:
•To laboratories conducting cognitive neuroscience research to
experience first-hand this environment
•Supported for attendance to regional and national conferences
•Lectures:
•Active researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience will
present guest lectures
•These talks will be open to all students and faculty.
a three-year course of training in psychophysiology
funded by the National Science Foundation (#DUE-053651), which
will:
• Provide hands-on digital technology experiences in
cognitive neuroscience for UW-Stout undergraduates
• Digital psychophysiology experiences in courses
• Student participation in faculty research
• Student created independent research
• Training in electrophysiological techniques such as:
• Skin electrodes to detect muscle movement, sweating,
heart beat
• Scalp electrodes used to measure brain activity
• Design of experiments to test explanations of brain-mind
relations
C-NERVE Activities
Using EMG to measure
emotional response to pictures
•Coursework:
•Five courses have been digitally enhanced to include hands-on lab
activities that utilize psychophysiological methods to demonstrate
brain-mind relationships.
•Applied Psychophysiological Methods
•Introduction to Neuroscience
•Perception
•Cognitive Processes
•Experimental Psychology
•Research Assistants:
•Students will serve as research assistants in each of four different
labs:
•Stress and Arousal Lab
•Memory Lab
•Reasoning Lab
•Social Cognition Lab
•Lab Meetings:
•A powerful way to foster a learning community is to participate in
regular meetings devoted to research
•Mentoring:
•Each C-NERVE student will choose a C-NERVE faculty member to
be their mentor. Students will meet with their mentor on a regular
basis to develop a career plan.
•UW-Stout Pre-College:
•Every summer UW-Stout hosts four one-week Pre-College
experiences for minority/disadvantaged youths in grades 7 – 10
•C-NERVE will offer four 3-hour physiological laboratory
experiences for these students
•C-NERVE students can participate in these activities
C-NERVE Faculty Members
•Senior Research Project:
•Students will carry out a senior research project using one or more
psychophysiological measures
•Each student will have a C-NERVE project advisor
C-NERVE faculty presenting to the pre-college students who visit UW-Stout
every summer.
For more information please contact Desiree Budd [email protected]
Top row LR: Ann Parsons, Jerry Kapus, Jo Hopp, Peizhong Li;
Bottom row LR: Steve Deckelman, Mike Donnelly, Desiree Budd, Richard Tafalla