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. All faculty in the Cognitive Program have their own dedicated research laboratories. In addition, the Program coordinates the use of several state-of-the-art shared-use facilities. These facilities are maintained and upgraded annually using special university funds for enhancing technology and may be used when mentoring undergraduate research assistants and honor's students. Following is a brief description of some of the laboratories and equipment that is available:

Simulator Picture Driving Simulator Facility: We recently set up a new driving simulator facility equipped with a research grade driving simulator. This simulator includes the full front seat compartment of an actual Ford automobile, complete with standard controls and functioning instrumentation. The system also includes tactile and proprioceptive feedback, surround sound, and high resolution wrap-around graphics.

Brain picture Electrophysiology Facility: We also have a newly renovated, state-of-the art EEG/ERP facility. This facility houses two EEG systems, with a control area and two separate subject-running rooms. The newest system is a 128 channel Electrical Geodesic system that supports source localization and uses a proprietary technology that allows the cap to be applied and tested in just ten minutes.

Other Equipment and Facilities

Computer-based testing rooms that allow participants to be tested individually.
Three computer-based testing rooms that allow 6, 12, and 17 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.
A laboratory equipped with touch screens for research on human-computer interfaces, spatial learning, etc.
A modern eyetracking system that may be used in research areas such as attention, psycholinguistics, and web design and usability.
Workstations with specialized software for experiment development and computational modeling, and additional workstations with specialized software for analyzing EEG and fMRI data.
A 32-channel NeuroScan system for traditional EEG/ERP research.
A Biopac system for measurement of ECG, EEG, EMG, EOG, Pulse, Airflow, Respiratory Effort, Lung Volume, Reaction Time, Skin Temperature, and Galvanic Skin Response.

The cognitive psychology research laboratories are housed in a common location adjacent to the behavioral neuroscience laboratories. All of these research laboratories are conveniently located in the same area as faculty and student offices for the Cognitive Psychology and Perceptual & Brain Sciences Programs.