But teaching can, and should, extend beyond such confines. The pivotal element in such collaborative scholarship is the gradual process of professional growth shown by our students. While this growth can bring many rewards for them, faculty also accrue genuine rewards in such collaboration. Published by the American Psychological Society. The Center's role in such a program is analogous to the theater in the School of Performing Arts and the various clinical and educational opportunities made available to students in the Schools of Nursing and of Education, as well as the clinical programs of the Department of Psychology.
Basic research is basic in that it has multiple applications.
Often these applications take time to actualize. The other technique centers on recording brain electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. These basic techniques were chosen because, with the advance of computer technology, both are on the threshold of providing major advances in our understanding of brain function. Also, these two techniques allow experimentation within a reasonable budget. Other technologies with equal promise such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging have start-up costs running into many millions of dollars and need a sizable staff to maintain and operate the facility.