Neurocognitive Methods in Infant and Toddler Research
The goal of this summer course is to acquaint young scientist with frequently applied methods in brain, cognition and behaviour research with infants and toddlers. Examples of methods are EEG, eyetracking, behavioral methods such as preferential looking, and fNIRS. During lectures by international experts, discussions, and hands-on sessions, participants will learn about the theoretical and practical issues with study-design, data-acquisition and analyses.
Neurocognitive research on babies and young children is burgeoning. Recent experimental research on for instance perception, language, and social skills has led to many important insights into devel-opmental trajectories. However, experimental research with infants and toddlers in a laboratory set-ting faces many challenges of which children's limited attention spans and ability to engage in struc-tured tasks are important examples. Sharing details of successful experimental designs and system-atically reflecting on factors that affect outcomes are essential prerequisites for replication. This in turn is relevant to standardization and cross-laboratory collaboration, which are necessary for ad-vancing the field. It is essential that junior researchers are not only trained in applying the experi-mental techniques and procedures, but also that they learn to reflect on limitations of these tech-niques. The objectives of this summer school are (1) to acquaint students (advanced master level, PhD and Postdocs) with frequently applied methods in brain, cognition and behavior research with infants and toddlers, (2) to sensitize the students to issues regarding reliability, replicability, and validity by having them explore how these issues are related to susceptibilities of current techniques and quantitative analysis methods. During the summer school, international experts will discuss methods applied in infant and toddler research. Focus will be on the methods EEG, eye-tracking, fNIRS, and behavioural methods. In addition, participants learn about issues regarding the use of these methods during discussion groups and hands-on sessions.
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Housing through Utrecht Summer School
Participants from Utrecht University will only pay for lunch (50 euro for the 5 days)
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For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying:
- Motivation Letter
- C.V.
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