Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists
Michaelmas 2026
Level
- This is a course planned with the needs in mind of a graduate student starting as a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences and related institutions. It will in addition be open to others e.g. research assistants, junior scientists, visitors.
Style
- The presentation will be as fairly formal lectures, each aiming
- to outline a particular class of methods
- to give examples of it being applied to realistic situations
- to indicate how to implement it using software available at CBU
- The presentation will be as fairly formal lectures, each aiming
Location
All Lectures will take place on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon in the lecture theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and are being given by PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback.
Links to updated PowerPoint and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added during the progress of the course and may be downloaded to your desktop.
A synopsis of the lectures is here.
Lecture notes from last year's course are available here. Zoom links featuring recordings from these talks in 2021 are here.
Talk slides will be added below as we go through the course.
You can complete a survey on a particular talk here.
Date |
Topic |
08-Oct-26 |
Exploratory Data Analysis |
15-Oct-26 |
Simple and multiple linear regression |
22-Oct-26 |
The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance |
29-Oct-26 |
Categorical Data Analysis |
05-Nov-26 |
ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies |
12-Nov-26 |
Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA |
19-Nov-26 |
Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions |
26-Nov-26 |
Power analysis |
03-Dec-26 |
Analysis of Longitudinal data |