Summer Program on Mind and Brain

Laboratories, Facilities, and Equipment

The Department of Psychology is housed in the Andrew C. Clark building, which is centrally located on campus and is immediately adjacent to the Morgan Library and the Lory Student Center. The Department occupies over 100,000 square feet of research, laboratory, instructional and office space within the Clark building. Following is a brief description of some of the laboratories and equipment available to undergraduates participating in the Summer Program:

Other Equipment and Facilities

~ A Maxwellian-view optical system for research on human vision.

~ A portable EEG system in addition to the two systems that are housed in the electrophysiology facility.

~ A modern eyetracking system that may be used in research areas such as attention, psycholinguistics, and web design and usability.

~ A Biopac system for measurement of ECG, EEG, EMG, EOG, Pulse, Airflow, Respiratory Effort, Lung Volume, Reaction Time, Skin Temperature, and Galvanic Skin Response.

~ A laboratory equipped with touch screens for research on human-computer interfaces, spatial learning, etc.

~ Specialized devices to examine rotary pursuit, reaction/movement time, and backwards mirror drawing.

~ Computer-based testing rooms that allow participants to be tested individually.

~ Three computer-based testing rooms that allow 6, 12, and 16 participants to be tested simultaneously.

~ A mobile computer lab comprised of 14 laptops that may be used for running multiple participants at once, or to conduct research off campus, when necessary.

~ Workstations with specialized software for experiment development and computational modeling, and additional workstations with specialized software for analyzing EEG and fMRI data.