This undergraduate research opportunity will provide a student with extensive experience in human subjects research in the domain of neuroscience. Specifically, the student will:

• Receive training in research ethics and good clinical practices in human subjects research.

• Learn how to interact with scientific collaborators and research participants

• Learn the foundations of scripting in software commonly used for data processing and statistical analyses (e.g., MATLAB).

• Learn basic principles of behavioral data analyses (performance speed and accuracy on memory tasks)

• Learn basic principles of sleep EEG approaches.

• Become familiar with procedures for the acquisition of sleep (nap) EEG data.

• Learn basic principles of EEG analytical approaches.

• Gain experience with project/results presentations and scientific writing.

These outcomes and experiences offer an ideal mix of research domain-general skills (i.e., ethics, scripting, writing, presentation) and domain-specific skills (i.e., acquisition and analyses of behavioral and brain imaging data). This will ultimately provide the student with an excellent foundation to pursue graduate training and/or a career in science, and in cognitive neuroscience in particular.