Our Projects
Neuroscience Applications for Learning (NeurAL) Laboratory is a team of faculty and students who use cognitive and social neuroscience methodologies and technologies to explore how people learn. We focus on learners who exhibit a wide range of attentional and cognitive differences, including inhibitory control, spatial ability, working memory capacity and reading ability. Studies are designed using or replicating authentic learning contexts to produce solutions for improving the design and practice of learning and teaching.
Our research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (Science of Learning, Cyberlearning and Future Technologies, GoLife, and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education programs), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the University of Florida (College of Education Research Incentive Fund and UF Research Opportunity Fund). We value collaboration and welcome the opportunity to discuss potential projects with you.
Project LENS: Leveraging Expertise in Neurotechnologies to Study Individual Differences in Multimedia Learning
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $765,000
Project LENS focuses on establishing an interdisciplinary collaborative network of scholars that use Electroencephalography, eye tracking, and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy to understand multimedia learning within a diverse population of students that exhibit attentional and cognitive differences.
iDigFossils: Engaging K-12 Students in Integrated STEM via 3D Digitization, Printing and Exploration of Fossils
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,194,000
The goal of this project is to expand and extend our understanding of integrated STEM learning by designing and testing a model for student engagement using 3D scanning and printing, and computational modeling within a highly relevant but unexplored educational pathway to K-12 STEM – paleontology.
A Simulation-Based Application for Teaching Human Physiology through Guided Discovery, Pure Discovery, and Authentic Research
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $247,129
The goal of this project is to develop an online computational simulation enhanced with learning analytics which undergraduate students can use to learn human physiology using both guided and pure discovery, and by designing, conducting and analyzing the results of authentic, simulation-based research.
