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Neurology
UI graduate faculty research projects in Neurology currently available to SROP scholars. This list does not represent all faculty interested in being mentors. Please check the Neurology faculty website for additional research interests.
Neuroanatomical Substrates of Complex Behavior
| Principal Investigator |
Daniel Tranel , Professor Department(s): Neurology Interdisciplinary Program(s): Neuroscience College of Medicine |
| Research Description | To understand how brain structures subserve higher cognitive functions and emotions in humans. |
| Undergraduate Role | Students are involved in planning experiments, preparing stimuli for experiments, collecting data, and analyzing results. Students may be responsible for running subjects in experiments. Some subjects are likely to be brain-damaged neurological patients who are being studied with specially designed cognitive experiments. Students may also become involved in preparing research results for presentation at meetings and in research papers. |
| Minimum Qualifications | Student should have at least 3.5 GPA and have completed some psychology and biology courses. Completed sophomore year of college. Good interpersonal skills. |
| Contact Information |
(Telephone) 319-384-6050 (Email address) daniel-tranel@uiowa.edu University website for Professor Daniel Tranel |