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We have an office suite in the Psychology ("Central") Building Annex that students may use for studying etc. We have a storage space in the Dental Building #126 (the old hotel across the parking lot from the Psychology Building) that temporarily contains rode...

Like many scientists, I view our lab as a small business that creates income (grants) by doing work (conducting scientific research) to create products (dissertations/doctoral projects, posters, chapters, and papers). Note that the “business” goals of our lab ...

Lab members should strive to maintain this schedule, which will assure completion of the required research products before leaving for external practicum and internship. This schedule is laid out in each lab member's Teams Planner tasks. Year 1 Decem...

Lab members should strive to thoroughly read and process at least 1 project-related paper per week. If the trajectory laid out above is followed, ~14 months will pass between the time a student informallymed joins the lab and proposes a dissertation project. ...

IVs: gender / age (probably the lowest hanging fruit) diet (pomegranate juice, ellagic acid, sugar @ different concentrations) TBI with High Impact Trauma (HIT) device exercise with the Power Tower genetics (ApoE, epilepsy, protein knockout or under/ove...

PsyD students have several options for completing a PsyD project, including writing a review paper, collecting and analyzing empirical data, and performing a meta-analysis. Other more “unconventional” projects (e.g., setting up a relational database of our lab...

Although I generally stay out of the “clinical” side of things, most clinical lab members are generally interested in becoming neuropsychologists. Clinical students generally go through multiple stages of training during their time in the program. During the “...

Students eligible for federal work study may be offered up to 20 hr/wk “research assistant” position to help professors in their labs. As of 2023, the gross pay is $21.95/hr. All lab members who are eligible should submit 5 hrs/wk baseline ($5,707/yr), nominal...

When collecting data, all experimenters should be blinded, and all experimental factors should be counterbalanced across groups, replicates, experimenters, etc. to the greatest degree possible Practice a “leave no trace” philosophy - try to leave the lab at...

Running an efficient lab requires delegating responsibilities to current long-term members. If any issues arise, the lab managers are the go-to people to help resolve them. It is expected, however, that you will be an independent researcher in our laboratory, ...

Depending on your "stage" in the program, we may meet more or less often. Generally, you will fall into 1 of 3 categories for individual meeting requirements: every week for PhD students actively collecting data every other week for PhD students who are pr...

We use several software packages and websites to accomplish different things in the lab: LLU uses Microsoft Teams and Office. LLU students have free access to Microsoft 365 by signing into login.microsoftonline.com with your LLU email / password: Teams -...

If you are asking me to do anything (answer a question, sign off on course units, review a manuscript, etc.), this is a task and should therefore be handled within Teams Planner. Generally, try to avoid sending me emails (use Teams Chat instead), unless I’m b...

Keeping an updated electronic lab notebook (ELN) is required to get a “Satisfactory” grade for your research units. The main goal in keeping and maintaining a lab notebook is for you to be able to look at your look at your entries / data several years from no...

Each lab member is expected to write and submit (and hopefully publish) 1 review paper. For PsyD students, this will fulfill the “doctoral project” requirements. For PhD students, the review should provide the background and theoretical framework for your empi...

Excel is great for organizing your data and making simple calculations (e.g., means / standard deviations), but it is pretty worthless for statistics, and even more so for graphs. You can apparently get some plugins that will allow Excel to do simple stats (al...

Following these guidelines should get you started on most basic analyses: Before the experiment: Use G*Power to determine required sample size. Power analysis parameters are generally set at the standards of .05 for the significance criterion (the probab...

Authorship on posters, chapters, and peer-reviewed journal article is determined by several factors. I will generally be the senior / corresponding author on all research products coming out of this lab. This is usually the last author, but occasionally may be...

We have presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference every year since 1995. The meeting currently alternates between San Diego, Washington D.C., and Chicago. All lab members should join SfN and strive to attend each year’s meeting, whether you are pres...