Introduction to Neuroscience of Consciousness

Dozent/in:

Alexander Pastukhov

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, MG2/01.11

Inhalt:

An introductory course on consciousness covering broad range of topics but with a particular emphasis on neural correlates. Topics include philosophical theories about consciousness, blidnsight (a guessing rather seeing vision without the primary visual cortex), conscious vs. unconscious processing in visual system (your brain has more information than you know), relationship between attention and consciousness (can you have one without another?), free will (and whether we have it), limits of conscious access to long-term memory (and how do you know your memory is real), loss of consciousness (sleep, coma), consciousness in animals. The course is taught in English, which will allow you build vocabulary on the topic.

Statistical analysis using free software R

Dozent/in:

Alexander Pastukhov

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, MG2/00.09

Inhalt:

An introductory hands-on course on basic data manipulation and statistical analysis using free software R. The course covers the entire analysis pipeline: importing data from various data formats (excel, CSV, SPSS), data reformatting, grouping, filtering, summary statistics, statistical analysis (including parametric, non-parametric, permutation tests, linear mixed models, and Bayesian statistics), figure plotting, and data export. The course is taught in English, however, the reading material is also available in German.