Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Oxford, UK • August 24 - 27, 2023

P-1A.23

Opening Computational Neuroscience to a Wider Audience: Virtual Escape Room for Kids

Isabelle Hoxha, CIAMS, Université Paris-Saclay, France; Noga Mudrik, The Johns Hopkins University, United States; Anne E. Urai, Leiden University, Netherlands; Dante Kienigiel, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jeremy Forest, Cornell University, United States; Mohamed Abdelhack, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Canada; Megan Peters, University of California Irvine, United States; Nick Halper, Neuromatch, United States; Ru-Yuan Zhang, Xinquan Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; John S Butler, TU Dublin, Ireland
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Posters 1A Poster
Track:
Cognitive science
Location:
North Schools
Presentation Time:
Thu, 24 Aug, 17:00 - 19:00 United Kingdom Time
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.
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DOI:
10.32470/CCN.2023.1197-0
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2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
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