How can we do ethnography in artistic environments? Dance rehearsals are fuzzy and apparently messy social settings. Given the complexity of social interaction, a reflexive and structured methodology makes a difference in getting valid results. This course is a practicum in ethnography for developing a methodology for dance cognition & creativity. At a theoretical level, we will be covering modern topics in Cognitive Science, such as body skill, physical thinking and multimodal instruction. At a practical level, students will go through the methodological steps of a real ethnography of dance. We will provide access to the ICL unique video archive we collected in the making of Dyad1909 (2009) and FAR (2010), which premièred in London, at the Sadlers Wells Theater. We will dwell on the specific do’s and dont’s of using the digital camera for data gathering, and the implications of using visual analysis software. In all, this class is a hands-on experience for students who are interested in qualitative research of professional teams. We provide the students with skills for observation, interviewing, transcription, and coding in an artistic field.

Learning a second language is difficult, and we want to help make it easier. As a 199 research assistant, you would have the opportunity to participate in the development of a new online system for second language learning. We are using tools from computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, ...

We are evaluating two interventions for dyslexia that involve training the temporal dynamics of the visual system (magnocellular pathway) and the auditory system, and whether the two interventions together have super-additive effects. As a Research Assistant, you would be traveling to one or two of five participating local elementary schools ...

The Language Acquisition & Sound Research lab is seeking enthusiastic, motivated, and reliable undergraduate research assistants to assist with a study. The study investigates how different people (monolinguals and bilinguals) interpret sounds when processing language. Successful applicants will receive course credit and gain valuable experience with language research! If interested, ...

The Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) is a multidisciplinary effort to explore innovative approaches to making future automobiles safer and "intelligent". Our research considers issues in sensing, analysis, modeling, and prediction of parameters associated with drivers, occupants, vehicle dynamics and vehicle surroundings as well as transportation infrastructures. This ...

We study how the brain processes words on a very fine spatiotemporal scale. We use neurophysiological methods including magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and intracranial recordings, where electrodes are placed directly on the surface of the brain in patients undergoing surgery for the treatment of epilepsy. We also work with structural ...

Get involved with eyetracking studies that explore language development in children. Duties will include testing children and adults in eyetracking and behavioral studies, recruiting children, data entry, preparing experimental stimuli, and attending lab meetings.

EEG/ERP Studies of Sensory and Attentional Processing in Typical and Atypical Development. We are studying attention and sensory processing in children and adults with typical and atypical development (e.g., autism). Students will learn to design experiments and collect and analyze Event-Related Potential (ERP) data. Each quarter's emphasis will be slightly ...

Computational Psycholinguistics Lab. We study how language comprehension unfolds in real time through psycholinguistic experiments. Duties include preparing experimental sentences, recruiting participants, running experiments, compiling results and assisting with analysis. Training is provided on these tasks, and you will learn a lot about both the structure of language and human ...

Human speech proceeds at an extremely rapid rate. In order to successfully understand language, the comprehension system must be able to extract meaning from speech as quickly as it comes in. To some extent, speech comprehension thus must involve predicting upcoming words and the information they convey before they have ...

The Language Acquisition & Sound Research lab is seeking enthusiastic, motivated, and reliable undergraduate research assistants to assist with a study. The study investigates how different people interpret sounds when processing language. Successful applicants will receive course credit and gain valuable experience with language research! Interested students should contact Carolyn ...

A number of brain regions have been linked to emotion processing, perception, and expression in EEG and functional imaging studies. However, structural correlates of these processes are not well understood, and individual differences in the development of these processes are even less clear. The Center for Human Development is looking ...

People witness, experience, and describe hundreds of events every day. These events are then encoded into memory and recalled as needed. This project focuses on the factors which can affect this encoding and subsequent recall. We are specifically interested in the extent to which speaking a particular language--Spanish or English--can ...

Why does talking on a cellular phone lead to distracted driving? Is it the device itself or the conversation? What specific cognitive impairments do each cause? Is it different when you're talking to a passenger? The Language and Cognition Lab (http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/lcl/) is looking for outstanding students interested in getting involved ...

Are children really better than adults at learning languages, and why? Learning even one language presents a challenge: children must figure out what sounds are meaningfully different and what sounds are not. This gets very complicated when children grow up learning more than one language! Researchers are very interested in ...

A number of brain regions have been linked to emotion processing, perception, and expression in EEG and functional imaging studies. However, structural correlates of these processes are not well understood, and individual differences in the development of these processes are even less clear. One potential obstacle to understanding these developmental ...