On the linked pages you will find information for current undergraduate and graduate students in our laboratory.
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Reference Letters
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The guide below is designed to help you provide the material Dr. Krigolson needs to write a complete reference letter. Please note there are different requirements for professional programs (medicine, physiotherapy) and for graduate school / graduate awards (NSERC, CIHR). In both instances, provide a detailed summary sheet with all of the required information.
References for Professional Programs
1. Make sure the program(s) and school(s) you are applying to are clearly stated.
2. Prepare a mini-CV with the following subsections and the following information:
Academics
a) List all classes you have taken with Dr. Krigolson and the grade you received and your standing in the course.
b) List any notable projects / assignments you did in a class with Dr. Krigolson.
c) Provide your overall GPA (and your GPA over a recent period of time if your overall is below 7.0) .
d) Provide separate GPAs for undergraduate and graduate studies.
e) Provide an explanation for any "holes" in your GPA (i.e., poor grades).
f) List any ACADEMIC scholarships you have won.
Extracurricular and Other Relevant Activities
a) Volunteering / activities related to the professional program you are applying for.
b) Any other things Dr. Krigolson can write about that are relevant.
References for Graduate Programs and Graduate Scholarships
1. Make sure the program(s) and school(s) you are applying to are clearly stated.
2. Prepare a mini-CV with the following subsections and the following information:
Academics
a) List all classes you have taken with Dr. Krigolson and the grade you received and your standing in the course
b) List any notable projects / assignments you did in a class with Dr. Krigolson
c) Provide your overall GPA (and your GPA over a recent period of time if your overall is below 7.0)
d) Provide separate GPAs for undergraduate and graduate studies
e) Provide an explanation for any "holes" in your GPA (i.e., poor grades)
f) List any ACADEMIC scholarships you have won
Research
a) Clearly state how long you have been in the Krigolson Laboratory
b) Clearly state what roles you have held.
c) List all research presentations and your role in the presentation
d) List all publications and your role in the publication
e) List all RESEARCH scholarships you have won
f) List any other relevant research activities.
g) Research skills - programming languages, statistics, etc.
Extracurricular
a) Any science outreach activities (THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE)
b) Any TA activities
c) Any relevant volunteer / work experience
d) Any academic resources you have developed for the laboratory or something else (a website, etc)
References for Professional Programs
1. Make sure the program(s) and school(s) you are applying to are clearly stated.
2. Prepare a mini-CV with the following subsections and the following information:
Academics
a) List all classes you have taken with Dr. Krigolson and the grade you received and your standing in the course.
b) List any notable projects / assignments you did in a class with Dr. Krigolson.
c) Provide your overall GPA (and your GPA over a recent period of time if your overall is below 7.0) .
d) Provide separate GPAs for undergraduate and graduate studies.
e) Provide an explanation for any "holes" in your GPA (i.e., poor grades).
f) List any ACADEMIC scholarships you have won.
Extracurricular and Other Relevant Activities
a) Volunteering / activities related to the professional program you are applying for.
b) Any other things Dr. Krigolson can write about that are relevant.
References for Graduate Programs and Graduate Scholarships
1. Make sure the program(s) and school(s) you are applying to are clearly stated.
2. Prepare a mini-CV with the following subsections and the following information:
Academics
a) List all classes you have taken with Dr. Krigolson and the grade you received and your standing in the course
b) List any notable projects / assignments you did in a class with Dr. Krigolson
c) Provide your overall GPA (and your GPA over a recent period of time if your overall is below 7.0)
d) Provide separate GPAs for undergraduate and graduate studies
e) Provide an explanation for any "holes" in your GPA (i.e., poor grades)
f) List any ACADEMIC scholarships you have won
Research
a) Clearly state how long you have been in the Krigolson Laboratory
b) Clearly state what roles you have held.
c) List all research presentations and your role in the presentation
d) List all publications and your role in the publication
e) List all RESEARCH scholarships you have won
f) List any other relevant research activities.
g) Research skills - programming languages, statistics, etc.
Extracurricular
a) Any science outreach activities (THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE)
b) Any TA activities
c) Any relevant volunteer / work experience
d) Any academic resources you have developed for the laboratory or something else (a website, etc)
Requesting a Reference Letter for Tri-Council PGS and CGS Funding
The bottom line is you have to help me to help you. The scoring of the application is done as follows so you can help me by giving the information I need to score your application. Please comment on each of the sections below.
Research Ability and Potential
1. Research Proposal
2. Contributions to Research and Development
3. Academic Training and Relevant Work Experience
4. Scholarships and Awards
5. Researcher Attributes
6. Justification for Location of Tenure
Communication, Interpersonal, and Leadership Abilities
1. Professional, Academic, and Extracurricular Interactions and Collaborations with
Supervisors, Colleagues, Peers, Students and Members of the Community
2. Awards for Papers, Reports, Posters, Oral Presentations, Teaching, and/or
Volunteer/Outreach Work
3. Participation in Publication Writing
4. Quality of Presentation of Application
For more details on what each of these sections mean refer to the NSERC Guide HERE.
The bottom line is you have to help me to help you. The scoring of the application is done as follows so you can help me by giving the information I need to score your application. Please comment on each of the sections below.
Research Ability and Potential
1. Research Proposal
2. Contributions to Research and Development
3. Academic Training and Relevant Work Experience
4. Scholarships and Awards
5. Researcher Attributes
6. Justification for Location of Tenure
Communication, Interpersonal, and Leadership Abilities
1. Professional, Academic, and Extracurricular Interactions and Collaborations with
Supervisors, Colleagues, Peers, Students and Members of the Community
2. Awards for Papers, Reports, Posters, Oral Presentations, Teaching, and/or
Volunteer/Outreach Work
3. Participation in Publication Writing
4. Quality of Presentation of Application
For more details on what each of these sections mean refer to the NSERC Guide HERE.
The following pages have important info about Masters students in our lab, mainly about what is expected of them throughout their degree.
UNDERGRADUATE READING GROUP
General Outline:
The goal with this group is to provide undergraduate students in the Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience laboratory with further readings on both EEG as a technique and to provide context for the research done in the lab. Participation in this reading will not simply be discussing the Luck textbook or the basics of EEG recording, but instead provide students with a chance to understand how EEG research is done in the literature and to discuss theoretical issues that underlie EEG research in the Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience laboratory. More importantly, the undergraduate reading groups are led by the undergraduate students themselves, providing students with a chance to discuss papers informally and work through the understanding of these papers on their own.
The papers we choose shouldn’t require huge time commitments to get through. Longer papers are expected to be read across multiple sessions, or only aspects of them will be focused on. While a few book chapters are included, these are generally more introductory or summary book chapters to provide an overview of a method or technique.
Session Set-up
Sessions are expected to run either once a week or once every two weeks, and sessions will last for an hour. Senior lab members (either Dr. Krigolson or a PhD student) will drop in at the last 15 minutes of the session to cover any questions and provide clarification for the readings. As the reading group is currently constructed, some weeks only discuss parts of papers.
Who can Participate:
Generally, the expectation is that students who have volunteered in the TAN lab for longer than a year will participate. That is, we expect students to be in their third or fourth year, and at least in their second year of helping out with the Krigolson lab. This type of reading group will be particularly important for students with the intention of going into honours, or who are beginning their honours year.
Suggestions on Reading Academic Papers:
When you are reading papers, here are some questions and reading tips to consider:
Reading Schedule
Semester 1
Introduction
Week One
Paper: Jackson and Bolger, 2014
Week Two
Paper: Luck and Kappenman, 2016
Error and Feedback Processing
Week Three
Paper: Gehring et al., 1993
Week Four
Paper: Miltner, Braun, & Coles - 1997
Week Five
Paper: Holroyd, & Krigolson, 2007
Week Six
Paper: Holroyd, Pakzad-Vaezi & Krigolson, 2008
Week Seven
Paper: Krigolson, Pierce, Holroyd & Tanaka, 2009
Week Eight
Paper: Krigolson, Hassall, Handy, 2014
Week Nine
Paper: Proudfit, 2015
Working Memory and Contextual Updating
Week Ten
Paper: Sutton et al., 1965
Week Eleven
Paper: Polich, 2007 (pages 2128 to 2138)
Semester 2
Wavelets and Oscillatory Brain Activity
Week One
Paper: Luck & Kappenman, 2016 - Chapter 2
Week Two
Paper: MX Cohen, 2017
Week Three
Paper: Williams et al., 2019
Methods
Week Four
Paper: Krigolson et al., 2017
Week Five
Paper: Krigolson, 2018
Week Six
Paper: Otten & Rugg - Chapter 5
Cognitive Control and Reinforcement Learning
Week Seven
Paper: O'Doherty et al., 2017
Week Eight
Paper: Schultz, Dayan, & Montague, 1997
Week Nine
Paper: JD Cohen 2018 - Chapter 1
Week Ten
Paper: Holroyd & Yeung, 2012
The goal with this group is to provide undergraduate students in the Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience laboratory with further readings on both EEG as a technique and to provide context for the research done in the lab. Participation in this reading will not simply be discussing the Luck textbook or the basics of EEG recording, but instead provide students with a chance to understand how EEG research is done in the literature and to discuss theoretical issues that underlie EEG research in the Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience laboratory. More importantly, the undergraduate reading groups are led by the undergraduate students themselves, providing students with a chance to discuss papers informally and work through the understanding of these papers on their own.
The papers we choose shouldn’t require huge time commitments to get through. Longer papers are expected to be read across multiple sessions, or only aspects of them will be focused on. While a few book chapters are included, these are generally more introductory or summary book chapters to provide an overview of a method or technique.
Session Set-up
Sessions are expected to run either once a week or once every two weeks, and sessions will last for an hour. Senior lab members (either Dr. Krigolson or a PhD student) will drop in at the last 15 minutes of the session to cover any questions and provide clarification for the readings. As the reading group is currently constructed, some weeks only discuss parts of papers.
Who can Participate:
Generally, the expectation is that students who have volunteered in the TAN lab for longer than a year will participate. That is, we expect students to be in their third or fourth year, and at least in their second year of helping out with the Krigolson lab. This type of reading group will be particularly important for students with the intention of going into honours, or who are beginning their honours year.
Suggestions on Reading Academic Papers:
When you are reading papers, here are some questions and reading tips to consider:
- What is the main question, finding, and conclusion of the paper?
- Are the claims made in the discussion commiserate to the findings (i.e., how much do the authors go above and beyond their data)?
- Look up related papers and read their abstracts. Is the author making claims in a vacuum? What are other perspectives?
- Focus on the methods and results primarily - do they all make sense?
Reading Schedule
Semester 1
Introduction
Week One
Paper: Jackson and Bolger, 2014
Week Two
Paper: Luck and Kappenman, 2016
Error and Feedback Processing
Week Three
Paper: Gehring et al., 1993
Week Four
Paper: Miltner, Braun, & Coles - 1997
Week Five
Paper: Holroyd, & Krigolson, 2007
Week Six
Paper: Holroyd, Pakzad-Vaezi & Krigolson, 2008
Week Seven
Paper: Krigolson, Pierce, Holroyd & Tanaka, 2009
Week Eight
Paper: Krigolson, Hassall, Handy, 2014
Week Nine
Paper: Proudfit, 2015
Working Memory and Contextual Updating
Week Ten
Paper: Sutton et al., 1965
Week Eleven
Paper: Polich, 2007 (pages 2128 to 2138)
Semester 2
Wavelets and Oscillatory Brain Activity
Week One
Paper: Luck & Kappenman, 2016 - Chapter 2
Week Two
Paper: MX Cohen, 2017
Week Three
Paper: Williams et al., 2019
Methods
Week Four
Paper: Krigolson et al., 2017
Week Five
Paper: Krigolson, 2018
Week Six
Paper: Otten & Rugg - Chapter 5
Cognitive Control and Reinforcement Learning
Week Seven
Paper: O'Doherty et al., 2017
Week Eight
Paper: Schultz, Dayan, & Montague, 1997
Week Nine
Paper: JD Cohen 2018 - Chapter 1
Week Ten
Paper: Holroyd & Yeung, 2012