Assignment 2
Interview participants' friends or family members to ask them about remote events that the participant experienced.
Assignment 3
Assist in scanning at MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center.
Assignment 4
Administer tests to the participants that assess attention, mental imagination, and vocabulary.
Assignment 5
Design a flyer to recruit potential volunteers. The flyers are distributed at places where our target population (interested 30- to 60-year-old subjects) would be. These places included libraries, book clubs, historical societies, restaurants that host poem readings, graduate schools and dorms at MIT and Harvard, etc.
Assignment 6
Read related fMRI and episodic memory articles.
Final Paper
Produce a final paper describing Experiments 1, 2, and 3. The paper should include introduction, materials, methods, results, and discussion for each experiment, as well as a final discussion of the significance of the three experiments together. The paper should be 15-20 pages long, double spaced.