Matlab for Psychologists

A short course for graduate students and researchers

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Overview

The course is made up of both lectures and practical sessions. Lectures will cover the basics of Matlab with a focus on the aspects needed for research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Practical sessions provide carefully selected examples so you can try out and apply your skills on realistic and relevant problems. Each student will have a pc in our computer lab (running Windows) to work through the exercises at their own pace, with the support of the course tutor and two experienced demonstrators.

This means students will finish the course with a solid grounding in Matlab and with the ability to apply their Matlab skills to the problems they encounter in psychology research.

A course book containing all the slides and examples will be available to take home with you.

Outline course schedule

Day 1

9am onwards

registration, setup and coffee (please arrive by 10am)

10:30am

Class 1a: getting started with Matlab
(lecture + exercises)

11:30am

Class 1b: some basic commands
(lecture + exercises)

1pm

lunch break

2pm

Class 2a: basic scripts and graphs
(lecture + exercises)

3:15pm

Tea break

3:30pm

Class 2b: logicals and indexing
(lecture + exercises)

evening

Course dinner

Day 2

9am

Class 3a: writing scripts
(lecture + exercises)

10:15am

Coffee break

10:30am

Class 3b: controlling your scripts (if / for commands)
(lecture + exercises)

12pm

lunch break

1:30pm

Class 4a: while / cells
(lecture + exercises)

2:45pm

Tea break

3pm

Class 4b: structures
(lecture + exercises)

5pm

extended practice time to work on exercises with demonstrator support

Day 3

9am

Class 5a: advanced graphics
(lecture + exercises)

10:15am

Coffee break

10:30am

Class 5b: randomisation / stats
(lecture + exercises)

12pm

lunch break

1:30pm

Class 6a: writing functions
(lecture + exercises)

2:45pm

Tea break

3pm

Class 6b: using Cogent to run experiments
(lecture + exercises)

5pm

End of course

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