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This is an overview meant to provide context and guidance for working in the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience lab, tailored to the projects I'm currently running. The goal is to familiarize you with the purpose, methods, and expectations for tasks. You may work on one or more projects, by yourself or with other Research Assistants, graduate students or PIs (Maryellen MacDonald; Mark Seidenberg).

Project

A project is defined broadly by a research question, and will contain a series of experiments that often share the same method. Each experiment will go through stages of design, experimenting, analyzing, and reporting results. The amount and nature of work at each stage depends largely on how similar the study is from something that's been done before, either in or outside this lab. Each of these phases can happen as quickly as a week, or last as long as a semester.

Folder access

The structure of a project folder reflects the general flow of stages and experiments. Each experiment is a separate folder, containing folders for each stage (design, experiment, analysis). Your access to folders will be at the broadest level relevant to the task at hand. So, if I ask you to help me design experiment 4 in a project called "Word Choice", I'll share the design folder inside the experiment 4 folder, with you.

Note: Each project contains a single _README.txt file. This file contains all instructions and notes related to the project. Familiarize yourself with this document, and document anything that happens with the experiment that isn't already documented, including problems, solutions, changes and updates.

Continue to Project Overview to learn about methods for project stages.