The design of experiments in neuroscience
By: Mary Harrington
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781412974325
Description: "Using engaging, disarming prose, author Mary Harrington shows neuroscience students how to go about selecting a topic, designing an experiment, analyzing the results, and publishing a paper. This text effectively illustrates basic research methods and design principles by uniquely using relevant examples from neuroscience such as the principles of design of fMRI studies, the use of transgenic mice, and conditional gene knockouts. The author also addresses basic professional ethics, fundamental statistics and data analysis tools, the range of possible experimental designs (from simple descriptive studies to multifactorial designs), and ways to control unwanted variables and avoid common pitfalls. This text is intended as either a core or supplemental text for both undergraduates and graduate students studying research methods in Neuroscience, Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Neurochemistry, or Biological Psychology."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The varieties of scientific experience; title: Ethics; title: Getting started; title: Basic research designs; title: Controlling extraneous variables; title: More than one predictor variable : factorial designs; title: Correlational designs; title: Becoming an independent investigator.