Photos from the brainwaves event
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🧠⚡🤖 Had a blast doing a brain-computer interface (BCI) demo and lecture for 70 people and love my department for supporting this event. Thanks to my colleagues Fey, Mark, Todd, Yasuhiro, and Vera for their support and to Tanvir Hasan for
Neuroscience Club ❤️🧠⚡️ This week my team of young scientists practiced working with EEG hardware and software in preparation for their senior research projects 📚🎓 We’re focusing on language processing in children and adults (monolinguals and bilinguals)! Excited to support my
Happy to pick up new equipment for my students working on research projects ❤️🤝🚀 32, 14, and 5 channel mobile EEG systems for BCI and neuroscience research 🤖🧠⚡️
Amazing work from my CWRU cognitive science students presenting their original research at the Midwest Cognitive Science Conference! 👏🧠
Zoe Buff, Chelsea Kodiaga, Suman Sanghera, Sofia Castro, Hayley Latta, Omar Nassim, Douglas O’Dea, Sofia DeThomasis, Maya Najm, Nikita
student comments in the teaching evaluations from my cognitive science courses
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🥰 introduction to cognitive science (1) and music, language, and cognition (190) 🧠🤖🎷
Please identify what you consider to be the strengths of this course:
“The professor himself! The
CWRU Cognitive Science will be presenting at MCSC 2024! I’ll be giving a talk about our EEG research on emotional processing in children and 14 of my undergrads will be presenting 3 posters showcasing their research! Visit and vibe with us at Ohio U on May 10th. More info ⬇️🧠
course evaluations from my cognitive science courses
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and
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🥰 scores for the overall effectiveness of instructor: your mean > department mean (for 8+ cogsci courses) 🧠🤖🎷
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Introduction to Cognitive Science: 6.24 (your mean) > 6.02 (department
Course evaluations and student comments for Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 and Slurs and Stereotypes 🤬
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“He kept me very engaged, so much fun and very passionate”
“Amazing Professor, one of the best I’ve had at this institution. Super knowledgeable about every
Join me for electroencephalography (EEG) and brain-computer interface (BCI) demonstrations at the
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BRAINWAVES event on Monday, February 12th! 🧠⚡🤖
My wonderful colleague Vera Tobin will also be providing puzzles and games and giving a talk about sudden insight and problem
Eternity
never was lost.
What we did not know
was how to translate it into days,
skies, landscapes,
into words for others,
authentic gestures.
But holding on to it for ourselves,
that was not difficult,
and there were moments
when it seemed clear to us
we ourselves were
We're hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor! This may be converted to a Tenure-Track position based on fit and performance. Psychology is the largest major at Bethany and the ideal fit will help us cover clinical and health psych, stats, research methods. DM for info!
Summer 2023: I'm teaching Music, Language, and Cognition (COGSCI 146) at UC Berkeley 🧠
We're reading:
Patel, A. D. (2008). Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2015). Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. Musicae Scientiae, 19, 44-64.
Birds, birds held by long affinity close to man's frontiers... Behold them armed for action, like daughters of the spirit. Behold them here for the trance and prelude to creation, more nocturnal than the great night of clear dream where the logic of dream holds sway over men.
In
Fall 2023: I'm teaching Experimental Methods in Cognitive Psychology (PSYC 312) at Bethany College 🧠
We're reading:
Reisberg, D. (2021). Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind (Eighth Edition). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
(2015). The importance of poetry, hip-hop, and philosophy for an enlisted aviator in the USAF (2000-2004) flying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 28, 73-97.
(2015). Music and the embodied mind: A jam session on musical improvisation, instrumental self-extension, and the biological and social basis of music and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology.
(2014). Vindicating virtue: A critical analysis of the situationist challenge against Aristotelian moral psychology. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 48, 18-47.
Summer 2023: I'm teaching Introduction to Cognitive Science (COGSCI N1) at UC Berkeley 🧠
We're reading:
Friedenberg, J., Silverman, G. & Spivey, M. J. (2021). Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind (Fourth Edition). Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
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I encourage you to apply to my institution! What’s really cool is that I get to support students and their research projects 🤓Consider applying here to work with me and DM if you have any other questions 🤝