Ethics
A document that describes any risks and benefits to the study that must be signed before a participant can participate in a study.
What is informed consent?
This is a computer program that can be used to administer behavioral experiments.
What is PsychoPy?
True or False: fMRI can measure absolute activity.
What is false? We are always comparing two conditions.
True or False: fNIRS if you are looking for the immediate neural reaction to a surprising stimulus, you should use fNIRs.
False: fNIRS is better than fMRI but still pretty slow since it is reliant on blood flow. For quick response use EEG!
The area of the cortex that is associated with movement.
What is motor cortex?
A researcher who goes home and gossips to their roommate about a participant, including their name, is in violation of this principle.
What is confidentiality?
What is a t-test?
This is an artifact that can effect your signal quality when working with children or other populations for which staying still is difficult.
What is motion artifact?
This is the name for the optode that detects light?
What is the detector?
The lateral portion of a brain area means it is relatively located here to the rest of the area.
What is to the outside/ away from the middle?
A professor who tells the students in their class that they will fail if they don't participate in the study their lab is running is in violation of this principle
What is coercion?
This task tests working memory by requiring participants to match stimuli across a pre-determined interval.
What is the n-back?
This is what fMRI stands for.
What is functional magnetic resonance imaging?
What is the name for the optode that emits light?
A view from the middle of the brain cut *this* way.
What is midsagittal view?
What is assent.
The area of the brain where we expect activation from the n-back task.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This level of analysis contrasts activation patterns within a single run.
What is first level?
These are the three signals we look at as a group in analyzing fNIRS data to determine if there are changes in neural activity.
What are HbO, HbR, and HbT?
This area of the brain is associated with emotional processing.
What is the amygdala?
This report came out in 1978 as a way to establish common ethical considerations for research using human subjects.
What is the Belmont Report?
This is one of the most common reasons your code won't run as intended.
What are typos?
This type of analysis can improve your statistical power by limiting the number of voxels that you are comparing, and therefore need to correct for.
What is ROI or Region of Interest?
This is the statistical technique we use to "remove" the effects of artifacts on our signal.
What is GLM?
What is the occipital cortex?