UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Undergraduates get involved in research in our lab in many ways: as volunteer or paid research assistants, independent study (e.g. PSYCH2QQ3,3QQ3,4QQ3) or honours thesis students. We typically have students in the lab coming from many different programs, including PNB, Neurosci, Arts & Sci, iSci, LifeSci, HthSci. We often recruit the help of volunteers to assist with running experiments. If you’d like to get involved in research in our lab, please contact Dr. Becker with a statement of your interests, a recent transcript (unofficial is fine) and experience.

We have accepted as many undergraduate thesis, project and volunteer students as we have capacity for in the 2020-2021 academic year. In future, we will again be seeking undergraduate thesis, independent study and/or volunteer students for projects such as the following (although the exact projects will change a bit in future years).

• the influence of episodic future thinking (EFT) on future decision-making, impulsivity, attitudes toward binge drinking, and core brain networks (studied through EEG)
• the impact of interventions such as exercise, minfulness and neurofeedback training on brain networks (studied through EEG), mood and cognition.
• the impact of early childhood adversity on implicit/unconscious and conscious sense of agency
• the impact of sensory substitution (spatialized auditory displays) on a person’s ability to function with a lower limb or upper limb prosthetic
• Designing a brain-computer interface to allow a person with brain damage (e.g. coma patient) to communicate

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