Resources

Research Resources

• preprocessingfNIRS - Matlab and Python code that wraps our lab’s fNIRS preprocessing pipeline into one batch execution. Also includes a data quality check module. Not a fancy GUI, but should be commented enough that any competent Matlab or Python coder could dive into the pipeline and quickly change the parameters they want to.

Education & Workshops

• Psych Stats Online Textbook - Collection of Google Colab notebooks for interactively learning statistics using R.

• fNIRS Bootcamp - Series of Youtube videos that contain the fNIRS bootcamp lessons given to all new members of our lab. Contains some lab-specific info, but also a lot of generally useful lessons for all new and continuing fNIRS researchers. Periodically updated when code/procedures are changed.

Teaching Syllabi

• Collective Psychology Seminar - Advanced seminar on the psychology of groups and intragroup dynamics. Major graded component of the course is a written project where students pick a real-world group issue to solve and use research from the class to develop an intervention plan.

• Introduction to Psychological Statistics - One of the core major courses at Pomona, introduction to using statistics for psychological research. Features a pseudo-flipped format (interactive readings -> lecture -> lab exercises). The course is taught using R scripting as the method of doing statistics and focuses on the general linear model framework. The interactive readings are a collection of “textbook chapters” implemented through Google Colab notebooks - access those readings here. Major graded components of the course are lab activities and a final analysis project with open psychology data from prior publications.