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Here Come The Test Results: An Analysis Of Games In Experimental Design For Neuroscience Research, Madison Mcdougall
Here Come The Test Results: An Analysis Of Games In Experimental Design For Neuroscience Research, Madison Mcdougall
Scripps Senior Theses
A large part of experimental design in neuroscience revolves around the tasks that are designed for participants to complete to understand the complex system that is the brain. However, as Alan Newell pointed out in his 1973 paper, “You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win,” as designed tasks often answer a binary question that limits their contribution to understanding the brain as a system or a “genuine slab of human behavior.” Games provide an apt solution to this problem, as their complexity embodies a naturalistic task while their well-defined rules create a robust experimental system. Video games specifically …
Neural Synchrony In The Zebra Finch Brain, Sydney Pia Goings
Neural Synchrony In The Zebra Finch Brain, Sydney Pia Goings
Scripps Senior Theses
I am interested in discovering the role of field potential oscillations in producing synchrony within the song system of the male zebra finch brain. An important function attributed to neural synchrony is sensorimotor integration. In the production of birdsong, sensorimotor integration is crucial, as auditory feedback is necessary for the maintenance of the song. A cortical-thalamic-cortical feedback loop is thought to play a role in the integration of auditory and motor information for the purpose of producing song. Synchronous activity has been observed between at least two nuclei in this feedback loop, MMAN and HVC. Since low frequency field potential …