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Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Schedule

BCSC 207: Lecture Schedule

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Week
Date
Monday
Date
Wednesday
Notes and to do
1
 
 
01/15
R: How to choose a good research question
Brainstorming
C: General plans for this semester, Poster presentations, Summer Internships
Contact your mentor and pick a weekly meeting time
2
01/20
MLK Day (no class)
01/22
Present 3 research ideas
Converge on a project with your mentor
3
01/27
F: Coursera (what's a p-value?)
01/29
R: Replication Crisis
 
4
02/03
2 groups present project hypothesis with background research
02/05
2 groups present project hypothesis with background research
2/3 1st and 2nd writing assignment (abstract) available
5
02/10
W: Writing a conference abstract
02/12
F: Peer Review – What makes for a good abstract?
2/14: 1st assignment due (abstract) by 2/17 midnight: comments back
6
02/17
Progress update
02/19
Progress update
2/21 6pm: 2nd assignment due (joint abstract)
2/21: 3rd writing assignment available (review)
Ralf out of town
7
02/24
F: All groups peer- review other groups' abstracts
02/26
R: Bootstrapped confidence intervals (Matlab)
2/23: 3rd assignment due (review)
3/1: Research Expo abstract due
Chigusa out of town 2/22-2/28 (Japan)
8
03/02
Workshop on citation management
03/04
Progress Update
3/2: 4th writing assignment available (Paper up to & including methods)
9
03/09
Spring Break (no class)
03/11
Spring Break (no class)
 
10
03/16
R: TBD (stats and graphs)
03/18
R: TBD (stats and graphs)
3/16: 4th assignment due (paper up to & including methods)
3/2: 5th writing assignment available (Results: analyses, tables, figures)
Chigusa out of town 3/18-3/21 (CUNY)
11
03/23
R+F: Problem-solving session to prepare preliminary analyses and graphs
03/25
C: How to make a poster
 
12
03/30
Progress update: preliminary analyses and graphs, poster template
04/01
Progress update: preliminary analyses and graphs, poster template
Florian out of town 3/28-4/1 (AAAL)
13
04/06
C: How to present a poster
04/08
C: How to jointly write a paper (while making and presenting a poster)
4/10: 5th assignment due (results)
Ralf out of town
14
04/13
2 groups present posters
04/15
2 groups present posters
4/15 9am: Final Research expo poster due for printing
4/17: Research Expo
15
04/20
Discussion of comments received at Expo
04/22
Preliminary Final presentation
 
16
04/27
Final Project Presentation
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
04/29
Final Project Presentation
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
5/8: Final writing assignment (complete research paper; group authored)

Readings & Assignments