Open master thesis topics

The image above describes with the color code the shape and rate of change in white mappter water diffusivity in the brain of aging individuals. White matter structures of the brain change with age in adult life but not at the same pace everywhere.  In a previous study, we developed a measure of the rate of change in the white matter water diffusivity. Now the task is to apply the technique to a new (considerably larger) dataset obtained from the CAMCAM consortium. You must be a friend of r-programming, the language in which all the scripts for data analysis were written. If you are interested in this topic, please write me an e-mail.

We know that neurofeedback is under strong psychosocial influences. It remains elusive, however, to which extent social attention and approval determine the reward value of neurofeedback. To investigate it, we define two training conditions: one with the usual high load of social attention from experimenter and another one stripped from most of social attention. Does the learning rate in both groups differ? If yes, social attention mechanisms should be considered a preferential instrument to increase engagement and improve the learning experience provided by neurofeedback training. You must be a good friend of extensive data collection and preprocessing of EEG data to qualify to work on this topic. If you are interested in this topic, please write me an e-mail.