The STF-CHN Collective is jointly supported by the UW Student Technology Fund and the Center for Human Neuroscience. It has the goal of making brain imaging research more accesssible for all. We hope that this is a resource both for anyone who wants hands-on neuroimaging experience.
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The neuroimaging collective consists of two main parts:
The CHN-STF Virtual laboratory. This is where you can learn skills, play with data, communicate with other scientists and carry out independent research.
The CHN-STF data depository. This is a collection of neuroimaging data collected by the CHN-STF Neuroimaging collective that is available to everyone.
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We see your time in our laboratory as a 3 stage process: Learn, Create, Share.
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Learn
You will watch a series of videos and do a series of mini-projects and quizzes to consolidate your knowledge. At the end of this you should have a basic understanding of neuroimaging. The Learn stage ****of our virtual laboratory also has links to LOTS of additional resources if you want to dig deeper.
Create
This is where you start working on your own project. You will carry out a series of little projects that lead up to you being able to examine how responses in a given brain area are related to psychological experience based on the CHN-STF database.
There are so many choices …
You can examine whether the thickness of prefrontal cortex is related to anxiety, or whether sporty people have larger motor cortices.
This part of our laboratory will teach you how to search the academic literature, statistics, and a little bit of experimental design.
Share
This is where you share the results of your research with the community and get feedback. You will learn how to report statistics, how to cite articles, and how to present your science in a way that is clear and interesting.
If you are doing this class for credit you need to do the assignments. (Even if you aren’t, you should still do them!)