PhD researcher Kate Hiley and her fantastic team from the University of Leeds have been conducting a citizen neuroscience project with students from Lower Sixth A-level Psychology this week. Students were taught principles of neuroscience and how to fit a Bluetooth electro encephalogram (EEG), which measures the electrical activity of different brain regions. Once students had fitted the EEG to each other, they then completed tests which measured the brain activity when they were relaxed or alert when they were completing various tasks including go - no go tasks and cognitive overload tasks. Alongside this students also had the opportunity to take part in a validation study which involved them taking part in a one-to-one session with a researcher both in the university and then in college to compare how the data looked in familiar and unfamiliar setting. The data will be used in research which will be published next year.
Students had some interesting comments following the project -
'It was a stirring experience that were my first steps into an opportunity of being able to be a part of a fascinating study, on neuroscience research, and inspired me even more to be a part of research and being able to conduct it myself when studying Psychology at University'.
'It was really interesting to see your brain waves on the screen link to the different parts of your brain'.
'It was fascinating to see the activity in your brain'.
'I was worried that I did not have a brain but I was relieved to see it fully working on the screen!'
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