After much brainstorming and sleuthing through research papers, I finally found a research question that really drives me. With the help of my professor, we were able to write an Institution Review Board request to experiment.

This was the first IRB proposal that I had written, and while extremely tedious, I found that it is necessary to have a human system in place to protect experiment participants and to stop unethical experiments from starting at research institutions. I was able to learn how to treat participants through the readings the IRB website gave me (alongside the tutelage of Professor Banic). These new interpersonal skills I learned led me to be a better researcher.

While I cannot yet fully disclose my research, I will say that it involves electroencephalography, a tool I learned to use here in Wyoming to gather input from the brain (with the aid of signal processing). I fear I will not be able to run participants here in Wyoming due to my time drawing to a close here but I will do my best to complete all of the code and tools necessary to conduct a preliminary version of the experiment before I leave.