Projects in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Supervised by Alexandra List
Professor List will supervise one-semester research projects in fall 2024 focusing on perception and attention. Project topics may focus on perception (e.g., vision, audition, haptics). For example, how do we develop perceptual expertise? Or, how do perceptual features (e.g., size, luminance, pitch, shape, texture) interact across modalities? Other project topics may address how attention is (or is not) engaged in the world around us. For example, what kinds of implicit information affects our experiences and behavior without our awareness? Projects may involve training in different methodologies (e.g., psychophysics, eye tracking, stereoscopic displays, or EEG–though EEG will only be appropriate for group projects).
At the beginning of the semester, students will be presented with empirical research project options (in topics, and group or individual work). Once students are assigned to an in-progress research project, we will begin with discussions of foundational literature, ethics training, and data collection. Mentored data processing and analyses will be followed with individual APA write-ups of the project. Students will then engage in independent literature reviews to contextualize the findings and formally propose an ensuing empirical investigation. Finally, students will present their project and proposal in both manuscript and oral presentation formats.
Professor List will not be supervising literature reviews.