Barsalou Lab

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Lab Meetings

The lab meetings we hold vary from semester to semester. Typically, the lab meets regularly to design experiments, hear about new data, discuss analyses, brain storm about research directions, discuss recent literature and so forth.

The Department of Psychology has also recently institutionalized research group meetings which are listed and taken as year-long courses that meet 1 hour each week (or 2 hours every other week). In past years, our lab members have primarily participated in three of these, in addition to our regular lab meetings:

The Embodied Cognition Research Group. Our lab members met with members of Philippe Rochat’s lab (Psychology) to discuss research related to embodied, social, and cultural cognition. Students from other labs, departments, and universities have attended as well. Typical activities included discussing experiments in progress and recent articles of interest.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group. Members from our lab met with members of Stephan Hamann’s lab (Psychology) and Debbie Mills’ lab (Psychology) to discuss recent articles in cognitive neuroscience.

The fMRI Research Group. Member of our lab met with members of Stephan Hamann’s lab, Krish Sathian’s lab (Neurology), and Jim Rilling’s lab (Anthropology) to work on fMRI experiments in progress. This group critiques experimental designs before experiments are run, helps with the analysis of data, and provides tutorials about analysis software, analysis techniques, etc.