Experiments in Cognitive Neuroscience

Project Seminar: Sleep & Memory Research

This project seminar provides an introduction to how to conduct experiments in cognitive neuroscience, specifically in the area of sleep and memory research.

At a glance

  • Programme: MSc Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Universität Hamburg
  • Instructor: Dr. Marit Petzka
  • Format: project seminar, combining literature, experiment coding and data analysis

Seminar contents

  • Reading and discussing current literature investigating sleep's beneficial role for memory consolidation
  • Coding an experiment in PsychoPy
  • Collecting and analysing behavioural data (in R)
  • Summarising the results

Learning goals

  • Gain theoretical knowledge about memory consolidation during sleep, including measurement techniques like electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG)
  • Set up, conduct and analyse an experiment to capture sleep-dependent memory consolidation
  • Learn to code in Python & R
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