http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:50:11 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward1.m4v Anthropology professor Carol Ward’s overall goal of understanding human evolution. Comparing fossils and modern primate anatomy to determine the chronology of human development. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:15 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward2-evolutionofintelligence.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward2-evolutionofintelligence.m4v Collaborating with Mark Flinn (psychology and anthropology) and David Geary (psychology) on how and why human brains developed as they did. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:31 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns1_research_introduction1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns1_research_introduction1.m4v Kerns gives an introduction to his research on cognitive processes and the brain. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:12:41 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns2_research_introduction2.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns2_research_introduction2.m4v Kerns continues to give an overview of his research. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:12:59 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns3_cognitive_control.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns3_cognitive_control.m4v How cognitive control processes work. What scholars know about the human brain. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:15 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns4_cognitive_control2.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns4_cognitive_control2.m4v How cognitive control processes work. What scholars know about the human brain. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:36 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns4_cognitive_control3-lab.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns4_cognitive_control3-lab.m4v Kerns discusses how activity in different parts of brain can be observed in the lab. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:55 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns6_cognitive_control4.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns6_cognitive_control4.m4v Kerns discusses more on cognitive control. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:16 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns7_cognitive_control5-brain_regions.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns7_cognitive_control5-brain_regions.m4v Kerns discusses activity in various brain regions as a result of different cognitive process. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:35 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns8_brain_imaging_technology.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns8_brain_imaging_technology.m4v Kerns discusses the technology used in his research to view brain activity. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:56 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns13_schizonphrenia_stages.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kerns/ipod/kerns13_schizonphrenia_stages.m4v Kerns discusses the characteristics of the different stages of schizophrenia. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:16:58 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo02.m4v Luo runs the Infant Cognition Lab at MU, in its second year of existence. Luo describes some of the experiments she began in graduate school concerning transparency and object permanence. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:12:18 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo03.m4v Luo describes her current research project, which focuses on determining infants’ knowledge of psychological reasoning. Using the looking-time method, she is testing infants as young as three-months old to see if they understand the concept of object preference. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:14:16 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo04.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo04.m4v Luo furthers her research about infant psychological understanding by conducting similar experiments with non-human agents. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:17:59 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo05.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo05.m4v All of the subjects in Luo’s experiments are volunteered by their parents. Luo talks about research she hopes to pursue in her future work. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:19:28 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo06.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo06.m4v In addition to running the Infant Cognition Lab, Luo also teaches cognition development courses at MU, ranging from infancy to toddler psychological and biological knowledge development. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:20:57 GMT