Please remember that you need to choose the topic yourself. Looking for and choosing a topic is part of the project. Remember about the ScienceDaily strategy that I showed you - it is useful when hunting for project ideas.
The topic can be almost anything as long as you can find neuroscience studies about it. Unilateral sleep, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, consciousness, free will - you name it.
If you are completely out of ideas I can help you - but I will not be giving away topics - rather suggesting interesting neuroscientific news.
Deadline(s)
Unfortunatelly I still do not know the deadline to submit the protocols for this class. It usually is in early july so we can settle for 15th of june as the absolute and deadly, fast and furious deadline.
Before that deadline you will have smaller, less deadly deadlines. This is because I am assuming that your work on the project will be consulted with me a few times before you submit the work. Therefore I am going to promote this way of working on project by enforcing smaller deadlines. These deadlines will not kill you, but you will lose points if you do not keep them. The deadlines are:
may, 4th - your group members and the topic
may, 11th - initial selection of meterials and papers
may, 18th - final selection of materials and papers
may, 25th - a sketch of the project - 1 page summary of the topic and studies that you are going to cover
june, 4th - nearly finished version of the project, ready for my feedback
june, 15th - the final, deadly deadline - full project
Group
The project is completed in groups ranging from one person to 4 people max.
The amount of work scales with group size - I expect 2 papers per person (found, read, summarized, discussed).
Format
The project should be submitted in text format (txt, doc, rtf, md, rst etc.). The papers that you discuss in the procject should be included. You can refer to pictures/figures in these papers but you are free to add any helpful figures/pictures you wish. You do not have to use very formal language and you are encouraged to disclose your opinion on the papers. I will be really happy if you write why you found a specific paper (and the whole topic) interesting and if you discuss the finings described in the paper in the context of your general knowledge and expectations (maybe something you read was particulary surprising or it extends something you have heard on other lectures).
Structure
Introduce the subject and then decribe the papers one by one. Each of these parts (introductiona and each studies description) should be no longer than one page and not shorter than half of a page. Introduction can be shorter than half of a page, but not to the extent the it consists of three lines of text only.
You can get additional points by writing a final summary that tries to integrate what you learned from the papers into a coherent picutre.
Questions?
If you have any additional questions about the project - please, post them here.
PROJECT INFO
Topic
Please remember that you need to choose the topic yourself. Looking for and choosing a topic is part of the project. Remember about the ScienceDaily strategy that I showed you - it is useful when hunting for project ideas. The topic can be almost anything as long as you can find neuroscience studies about it. Unilateral sleep, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, consciousness, free will - you name it. If you are completely out of ideas I can help you - but I will not be giving away topics - rather suggesting interesting neuroscientific news.
Deadline(s)
Unfortunatelly I still do not know the deadline to submit the protocols for this class. It usually is in early july so we can settle for 15th of june as the absolute and deadly, fast and furious deadline. Before that deadline you will have smaller, less deadly deadlines. This is because I am assuming that your work on the project will be consulted with me a few times before you submit the work. Therefore I am going to promote this way of working on project by enforcing smaller deadlines. These deadlines will not kill you, but you will lose points if you do not keep them. The deadlines are:
Group
The project is completed in groups ranging from one person to 4 people max. The amount of work scales with group size - I expect 2 papers per person (found, read, summarized, discussed).
Format
The project should be submitted in text format (txt, doc, rtf, md, rst etc.). The papers that you discuss in the procject should be included. You can refer to pictures/figures in these papers but you are free to add any helpful figures/pictures you wish. You do not have to use very formal language and you are encouraged to disclose your opinion on the papers. I will be really happy if you write why you found a specific paper (and the whole topic) interesting and if you discuss the finings described in the paper in the context of your general knowledge and expectations (maybe something you read was particulary surprising or it extends something you have heard on other lectures).
Structure
Introduce the subject and then decribe the papers one by one. Each of these parts (introductiona and each studies description) should be no longer than one page and not shorter than half of a page. Introduction can be shorter than half of a page, but not to the extent the it consists of three lines of text only. You can get additional points by writing a final summary that tries to integrate what you learned from the papers into a coherent picutre.
Questions?
If you have any additional questions about the project - please, post them here.