Hoxha, Isabelle;
Mudrik, Noga;
Urai, Anne E;
Kienigiel, Dante;
Forest, Jeremy;
Abdelhack, Mohamed;
Peters, Megan;
... Butler, John S; + view all
(2023)
Opening Computational Neuroscience to a Wider Audience: Virtual Escape Room for Kids.
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2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
(pp. pp. 78-81).
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
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Abstract
As researchers it is vital that we increase the accessibility, transparency, diversity, and inclusivity of our work. One-way Neuromatch has championed this is by having outreach sessions for children (8+) to explain computational-neuroscience concepts. For the 2022 Neuromatch conference we designed an online escape room with the two goals 1) to show who is a neuroscience researcher and what they do and 2) to explain a research topic. To show who/what is a researcher, the escape room began with a video describing the day-to-day life of a researcher. The subsequent videos discussed how mathematics and neuroscience are combined to model decision-making. We framed the videos around the question “Will I walk or bike to school?” to describe the concepts of the drift-diffusion equation and how its application. At the end of each video there was a multiple-choice question, a correct response gave clues to the next image and a letter for the keyword needed to complete the escape room. The escape room was translated into six languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Hebrew and Spanish. The materials have been made open access and can be easily adapted to create content to communicate other scientific research questions to a broad audience.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Opening Computational Neuroscience to a Wider Audience: Virtual Escape Room for Kids |
| Event: | 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience |
| Dates: | 24 Aug 2023 - 27 Aug 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.32470/ccn.2023.1197-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://2023.ccneuro.org/view_paperdb9d.html?Paper... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216064 |
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