作業

以fMRI探索遠端記憶之神經基質

因舊版課程無指定課堂作業與考試,因此統整所有作業、講義、考試內容合併列出。

    這些作業通過讓學生們招募受試者、收集資訊、建立刺激並對受試者進行測試,在實際中教學。受試者將在fMRI中接觸各種不同的刺激並同時接受掃描,腦中相應區域表現出來呈增長性的活動將會被記錄下來並進行分析。

     

    These assignments move teaching to the outside world by driving the student to recruit subjects, gather information, create stimuli, and test subjects. Subjects will be scanned in an fMRI during presentation of various stimuli, and the areas of the brain that show increased activity will be recorded and analyzed. 

     

     

     

    作業1

    Assignment 1

     

    使用受試者的定期記錄和日記來建立一個刺激,這個刺激能夠引發受試者記起一個他(她)在掃描器中看到的特殊事件。

     

    Use the participant's journals and diaries to create stimuli that will elicit the participant's memory of specific events when he/she sees them inside the scanner.

    作業2
    Assignment 2

     

    與受試者的朋友及家人晤談,詢問他們受試者經歷過的較久遠的事情。

     

    Interview participants' friends or family members to ask them about remote events that the participant experienced.

    作業3
    Assignment 3

     

    協助在美國麻省總醫院/醫院管理系統磁共振成像中心進行掃描

     

    Assist in scanning at MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center.

    作業4
    Assignment 4

     

    對受試者進行一些測試來評估受試者的注意力、心智想像能力和辭彙量。

     

    Administer tests to the participants that assess attention, mental imagination, and vocabulary.

    作業5
    Assignment 5

     

    設計一份宣傳單來招募潛在的志願者。宣傳單將在我們目標族群(30-60歲感興趣的受試者)集中的地方分發。這些地方包括圖書館、讀書俱樂部、與歷史有關的協會、舉行讀詩活動的餐館、以及麻省理工學院和哈佛的研究生院和宿舍等等。

     

    Design a flyer to recruit potential volunteers. The flyers are distributed at places where our target population (interested 30- to 60-year-old subjects) would be. These places included libraries, book clubs, historical societies, restaurants that host poem readings, graduate schools and dorms at MIT and Harvard, etc.

    作業6
    Assignment 6

    閱讀有關fMRI和情節記憶的文章。

     

    Read related fMRI and episodic memory articles.

    期末論文
    Final Paper

    寫一篇期末論文,描述實驗1、2和3。這篇論文應該包括每個實驗的介紹、材料、方法、結果和討論,還要有一個最後的討論,綜合這三個實驗的重要性。文章應該長15至20頁,雙倍行距。

     

    Produce a final paper describing Experiments 1, 2, and 3. The paper should include introduction, materials, methods, results, and discussion for each experiment, as well as a final discussion of the significance of the three experiments together. The paper should be 15-20 pages long, double spaced.