NSF CCLI 0087906 And St' Olaf College

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Investigative Psychophysiology Laboratory
Experiences in College and High School Phase I
National Science Foundation

• Dr. Howard Thorsheim
• Mike Mensink
• Sarah Strand
• Mike Hill
• Philip Marino

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Process of Our NSF Project
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Focus of our NSF Project
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Exemplary Technology SelectedBioPac Ultimate
System Student Lab Selected
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Exemplary Phenomena Selected

• Electrocardiogram
• Electrooculogram
• Electromyogram
• Electroencephalogram
• Electrodermal Activity
• Working Memory
• Olfaction
• Emotion Facial Muscle Activity

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Exemplary Methods Selected

• Organize Workstations by Adapting Sears Craftsman
  Carts
• Design Laboratory Space Use

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Sears Tool CartsSelected as Exemplary Platform
for Workstations

• All Drawers can be locked.
• Highly Portable

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Sears Carts as Workstations

• Entire BioPac Ultimate System fits in cart
• Manual in drawer
• Highly Accessible

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Sears Carts as Workstations

• Slide-out drawers provide storage and ease of use
  of keyboard and mouse

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Research Activities

• Complete Institutional Review Board Review
• Conduct Literature Review
• Write Investigative Lab Curriculum

• Keep Digital Photo Log of Activities
• Conduct Pilot Studies

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Personalized Workstations
We introduce students to psychophysiology
neuroscientists by naming each of our
workstations for one of them e.g., Shown is the
Dr. Patricia Cowlings (NASA Ames) Workstation.
Students say Im doing research with Dr.
Cowlings today. Each scientist has given his/her
permission to have photos used in this way.
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Explore BioPac Functionality
Electromyography to measure facial muscles during
emotion imagery.
Electro-oculography to measure eye movement
blinking.
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More BioPac Functionality
Attaching EEG Electrodes.
Members of our team discuss BioPac functionality.
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Sample Output Cardiac and Electrodermal
Reactivity (During Imagery of Worst Place and
Nice Place)
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Laboratory Curriculum Development
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College StudentsEngaged With Curriculum
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Partnership with Bakken Museum and Medtronic,
Inc.
The Bakken Museum with Dr. David Rhees, Exec.
Dir.
Medtronic Inc. with Brent Burrows, Human
Resources
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The Bakken Museum

• The Bakken Museum of Electricity Life, a
  partner in our next grant initiative, has a rich
  collection of historical instruments

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History of Psychophysiology Neuroscience
Instrumentation
Dr. David Rhees, Exec. Dir. of The Bakken Museum
with our NSF student team viewing early analog
physiograph.
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Bakken Museum Sponsors Lectures by Leading
Scientists
NSF team members with Sir Andrew Huxley at The
Bakken Museum, following his lecture, Sixty
Years Research on Nerve and Muscle. Dr. Huxley
won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine
in 1963 for his work with neurons.
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Links with Neuroscience Faculty from Other
Colleges
Bonnie Sherman, Deb Ruyman, Tom Thieman, Gill
Clary, Mike Mensink, Mara Sedlins, and Sarah
Strand (College of St. Catherine)
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Exploring Outreach WithInner City High School
Students
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Outreach Pilot Experience With High School
Students
High School studentslistening to EMG sounds.
High School instructor Eric McDonald looks on.
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Hands-on Learning
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Collaborative Learning
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Engagement
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Success
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Sparking Interest in Neuroscience
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Thoughtful Work
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Ignited Minds!
Student comments about the laboratory
High school students applying EMG sensors
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Dissemination Web Page
http//www.stolaf.edu/depts/psych/psychophysiology
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Dissemination Conferences

• Presented progress of Phase I Phase II of NSF
  Grant 00837906 at PEW Midstates Science and Math
  Consortium in St. Louis, MO.
• Shared ideas and methodologies with students and
  faculty

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DisseminationPBS Television
Exploring the Mind, a dragonflytv program to be
aired nationally in 2002, will include a 2.5
minute segment with fifth graders being shown how
to conduct an EEG study in our lab using BioPac
instrumentation. (Co-sponsors are Twin Cities
Public Television, PBS, NSF, and Best Buy)
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AccomplishmentsPhase I in Summer 2001

• Created a psychophysiology laboratory drawing on
  exemplary national and international practice.
• Developed new psychophysiology research
  opportunities for beginning and intermediate
  college courses.
• Initiated outreach phase to High Schools.
• Documented the development process to disseminate
  to colleges high schools.

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AccomplishmentsPhase II in Fall 2001

• Began exploring mutual grant interests with
  potential partners.
• Developed relationships with Bakken Museum.
• Presentation scheduled for National Institute on
  Teaching of Psychology, January 2002.
• Positive response from NSF to Letter of Intent
  for New Project, Igniting the Mind.

Historical diorama of historical techniques
created in our facilities.
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NEXT STEPS

• Feasibility study for next large grant
• Digital Neuroscience for high school students
  from underrepresented ethic, and low income
  groups
• Bridging the Digital Divide

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IGNITING THE MIND
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Partnership Collaboration

• National Science Foundation
• BioPac, Inc.
• The Nygaard Foundation
• American Psychological Association (APA) Science
  Directorate
• APAs Psychology Partnerships Project (P3)
• Project Kaleidoscope
• Faculty of Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN)
• Wisconsin High School Teachers
• TRIO Grant Upward Bound High School faculty
  students
• Medtronic, Inc.
• Bakken Museum of Electricity and Life
• SASP (State Agency for Surplus Products)
• Regional Colleges (e.g., The College of St.
  Catherine Faculty)
• National Public TVs New Science Education
  program DragonFly TV on Exploring the Brain, to
  air in 2002.

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Extend expand project Additional funding
partners

• Listen to others about directions they wish to
  move
• Ask how a large new grant might support what they
  want to do?
• Might they wish to be a partner in Igniting the
  Mind?

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Working Memory

• Test Baddeleys Theory vs. McGuigans Theory
• Implications for cognitive processing

• Measuring masseter muscle to monitor rehearsal.

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Emotion, Facial Muscles, and Moral Judgment Mike
Mensinks Pilot Project

• Study Facial Electromyography and Emotions
• Internal emotions are hard to measure, but facial
  responses are not
• Surveys measuring emotion can be validated using
  this technology

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Psychophysiology of Olfaction Sarah Strands
Pilot Project

• Study effects that aromas have on the physiology
  of the body.
• Specifically, the heart and the sympathetic
  nervous system (GSR).
• Aromas and Memory
• Using Scratch and Sniff