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For Part IB and Part II Experimental Psychology and Part II Neuroscience, Natural Sciences Tripos (second- and third-year undergraduate courses of the University of Cambridge), with additional material for MRCPsych Part 1 teaching.

Relevant external links include:

• the Department of Experimental Psychology; the School of the Biological Sciences and within it the Faculty Board of Biology;
• Information on specific courses:
  • MVST information in general;
  • MVST 1B Neurobiology & Human Behaviour course information;
  • MVST 1B Experimental Psychology Option course information;
  • NST IA Elementary Maths for Biologists course information;
  • NST 1B Neurobiology course information;
  • NST 1B and II Psychology course information;
  • Mike Aitken's NST II Psychology Statistics pages and our statistics textbooks web page;
  • NST Part II Neuroscience course information.
• Also, the University Reporter, which publishes the Lecture List.
• For statistics, relevant external links include the excellent set of Statistics Notes in the British Medical Journal (see also Martin Bland's publications) and StatSoft's Electronic Statistics Textbook (rather hard going for the novice).
• For writing skills, relevant links include The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing and the Economist Style Guide.
• Perhaps of interest: Rat Life: A Natural History.

NST 1B Psychology practicals

are on Tuesdays/Wednesdays and Thursdays/Fridays. Each practical is run three times, because there are more students than will easily fit in the practical classroom for some practicals. The time slots are Tuesday 9-11 am, Wednesday 10-12 am and Wednesday 2-4 pm (in any given week, these are three copies of the same practical), and Thursday 2-4 pm, Friday 10-12 am and Friday 2-4 pm (again, in any given week, these are three copies of the same practical).

The following handouts are in PDF format. Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free. Numbers in [square brackets] are internal reference numbers (T for teaching materials).

Graduate handouts (not for a particular year)

• Graduate statistics - Guide to ANOVA [T112]. Most recent version is of 2 May 2004. Superseded by Cardinal & Aitken (2005) ANOVA for the behavioural sciences researcher; see the statistics materials page.
  

2004-5

• Exp Psych 1B - Practical handout - Introduction to Neurobiology [T113] (Thu 7, Fri 8 October 2004) [slides] [T114]
• Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - course booklet [T115]. The booklet includes these sections:
  • Overview
  • Background knowledge - to be read before the first statistics practical
  • Correlation and regression - for practical on Thu 11, Fri 12 November 2004 [with slides A [T116] and partial summary of mental rotation data [T117], though these data are for only one of the experiments and therefore not enough to write up the mental rotation practical - for that, you should obtain the full data set instead]. In this practical, as well as covering the theory, you will analyse your own data from Gregg DiGirolamo's mental rotation practical on Tue 9 and Wed 10 Nov.
  • Difference tests 1 (parametric) - for practical on Tue 30 November, Wed 1 December 2004 [with slides B [T118] and summary of psycholinguistics data [T119]]. In this practical, as well as covering the theory, you will analyse your own data from the psycholinguistics practical on Thu 25 and Fri 26 Nov.
  • Difference tests 2 (nonparametric) - for practical on Thu 10, Fri 11 February 2005 [with slides C [T120]]. In this practical, as well as covering the theory, you will analyse your own data from Ian McLaren's human learning/memory practicals between Tue 1 and Wed 9 Feb.
  • Chi-square test - for practical on Tue 1, Wed 2 March 2005 [with slides D [T121]]. In this practical, as well as covering the theory, you will analyse your own data from Lisa Saksida's reasoning practical on Thu 24 and Fri 25 Feb.
  • Example questions for all sections.
  • Past exam questions - to be discussed in the revision practical on Tue 3, Wed 4 May 2005 [slides E] [T122].
  • Answers to examples and numerical past exam questions.
  • Experimental design tips and glossary of jargon.
  • Tables and Formulae, as supplied in the exam.
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - course overview (2005) [T123]
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 1 - cortex; visual streams 1; object processing (17 Jan 2005) [T124] [slides 1] [T125]
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 2 - visual streams 2; spatial cognition; parietal cortex (24 Jan 2005) [T126] [slides 2] [T127]
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 3 - attention; the binding problem (31 Jan 2005) [T128] [slides 3] [T129]
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 4 - neural basis of memory 1 (7 Feb 2005) [T130] [slides 4] [T131]
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 5 - neural basis of memory 2 (14 Feb 2005) [T132] [slides 5] [T133]
  • There's a reading week between lectures 5 and 6.
• Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Lecture 6 - prefrontal cortex (28 Feb 2005) [T134] [slides 6] [T135]