Multimedia Presentation
Human Cardiovascular Psychophysiology
   Click HERE enter the page and
   follow "BIOELECTRICAL" link.
Introduction:

         This link will take you to a series of mulitmedia presentations designed to aid in learning psychophysiological techniques. In particular, we would like you to view the presentation describing the principals of bioelectrical recording. This presentation will take you through a tutorial that describes the basics of electricity, recording bioelectrical signals from humans, and techniques for scoring these signals. This tutorial includes some animation to aid in describing the concepts. Also included is a "homunculus" or portion of the presentation where you can apply the principals you just learned to condition a bioelectrical signal. While this presentation was originally designed for undergraduate students of psychophysiology, the concepts presented are important for any student of psychophysiology to understand. Once the Bioelectrical tutorial is running in your browser, just follow the directions on the screen. Exit from the presentation by closing your browser. If you get lost and would like to start the tutorial again, simply go back to the original website link and start over. The main web site provides links to a number of tutorials that describe other systems important to psychophysiologists, such as the neuron, brain, and heart. Feel free to browse these as well, although most will not be relevant to this class.


Trouble Shooting:

If you have difficulty viewing the presentation, here are a few things that might help:

1. Make sure you have the Flash 4 Player plugin for your web browser. If you do not, go to the web site http://www.shockwave.com/bin/shockwave/detect/sdc_frameset.jsp?player=flash Then, download and install Flash 4 Player for your specific browser.

2. Maximize your browser screen as much as possible. Minimize any on-screen bars (e.g. MS office toolbar). You may need to remove the browser toolbars from view. This can be done in the View, then Show menu in Netscape, or the View, then Toolbars menu in Explorer.

3. Once the multimedia presentation is running, you will not have to use the forward and back buttons on your browser. Use the buttons on the presentation itself (forward, back, main menu).

4. Remember to roll your mouse over text that is green, and click on text that is red. This makes the presentation more "interactive."

5. If you're still having trouble, contact Kristen at salomonkl@msx.upmc.edu.

 



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