Eyes & Arrows or Dots? Version 2

January 25th, 2012

Com­pen­sa­tion
$10.00

Dura­tion
60 mins

Descrip­tion
Your eye move­ments will be mea­sured with head mounted eye-tracking equip­ment as you look at a com­puter screen.

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Remove all eye make-up. Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision. You do not need to be a Dal stu­dent (tell your flat-mates).

Prepa­ra­tion
Remove eye make-up.

Loca­tion
Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, Life Sci­ences Cen­ter, third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge (down the hall from the main psy­chol­ogy office).

Con­tact
Christo­pher Dean
+1 902 494 6551
typographer@gmail.com
facebook.com/readthetype
@readthetype

Eyes & Arrows or Dots? Version 2

January 25th, 2012

Com­pen­sa­tion
$10.00

Dura­tion
60 mins

Descrip­tion
Your eye move­ments will be mea­sured with head mounted eye-tracking equip­ment as you look at a com­puter screen.

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Remove all eye make-up. Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision. You do not need to be a Dal stu­dent (tell your flat-mates).

Prepa­ra­tion
Remove eye make-up.

Loca­tion
Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, Life Sci­ences Cen­ter, third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge (down the hall from the main psy­chol­ogy office).

Con­tact
Christo­pher Dean
+1 902 494 6551
typographer@gmail.com
facebook.com/readthetype
@readthetype

How does attention affect memory? (version 1)

November 7th, 2011

Mike Lawrence, PhD stu­dent in the Exper­i­men­tal Psy­chol­ogy pro­gram at Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, is con­duct­ing an exper­i­ment on atten­tion and mem­ory that will take place in the Depart­ment of Psy­chol­ogy. The exper­i­ment involves play­ing a sim­ple video game. We may use spe­cial equip­ment to mon­i­tor your eyes, either mounted on a helmet-like cam­era sys­tem or using a desk­top cam­era zoomed in on your eye. Par­tic­i­pa­tion in this study will take about an hour to com­plete in total and will pro­vide $15 to com­pen­sate time spent par­tic­i­pat­ing in the exper­i­ment. If you are between the ages of 18–30 and inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in this exper­i­ment, con­tact Mike at mla@dal.ca for more information

Research Opportunity for Child Participants Aged 4 months to 8 years!

September 28th, 2011

At the Early Social Devel­op­ment Lab at Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, we study how kids inter­act with the world around them. You can learn more about our work at http://esdl.psychology.dal.ca.

We are cur­rently look­ing for kids between the ages of 4 months and 8 years to par­tic­i­pate in a study about their social development.

With the infants (aged 4–9 months) we are inter­ested in when young chil­dren begin to rec­og­nize them­selves. With the older kids (aged 4–8 years) we are inter­ested in how kids under­stand the con­cepts of shar­ing and fairness.

We would like to ask for your assis­tance with our research! If you have a child between these ages and are will­ing to vol­un­teer 20–45 min­utes of your time, we would appre­ci­ate hear­ing from you!

Dur­ing a study visit, your child will be asked to per­form a sim­ple task or play an inter­ac­tive game. All our stud­ies are com­pletely safe and fun! You will be present in the room through­out the study.

Chil­dren will receive a cer­tifi­cate as a thank-you for com­ing in to play. Older chil­dren will receive a sticker book and stick­ers, too.

Please con­tact me for more information:

Julie Lon­gard
Lab Coor­di­na­tor
Early Social Devel­op­ment Lab
Depart­ment of Psy­chol­ogy, Life Sci­ences Cen­tre
Dal­housie University

Tel: 494‑6106
Email: esdl@dal.ca
Web: http://esdl.psychology.dal.ca

Research apprenticeship in cognitive science

September 13th, 2011

Senior doc­toral stu­dent in exper­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy seek­ing a 2nd or 3rd year under­grad­u­ate for an appren­tice­ship in cog­ni­tive sci­ence. This vol­un­teer posi­tion will involve one-on-one men­tor­ship in research meth­ods, sta­tis­tics, and com­pu­ta­tional mod­el­ling.  Can­di­dates must be will­ing to learn basic com­puter pro­gram­ming (Python for design­ing game-like exper­i­ments, R for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis and modelling). Background in math, sta­tis­tics or com­puter sci­ence a plus. Send CV with a short para­graph describ­ing your inter­est in cog­ni­tive sci­ence to mike.lawrence@dal.ca.

Visual search & attention: Rotating boxes

September 10th, 2011

Fig­ure 1: Christo­pher Dean wear­ing Eye­Link II

Com­pen­sa­tion
$15.00 CAD

Dura­tion
90 minutes

PREPARATION
REMOVE EYE MAKEUP

Descrip­tion
In this study will respond to tar­gets appear­ing on a com­puter screen by mov­ing your eyes while wear­ing head mounted eye-tracking equip­ment (Figure 1).

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision.

Loca­tion
Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, Life Sci­ences Cen­ter, third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge (down the hall from the main psy­chol­ogy office).Researcher
Christopher Dean

Phone
+1 902 494 6551

Email
typographer@gmail.com

Volunteer Research Assistants Wanted for the Early Social Development Lab!

September 10th, 2011

In Dr. Chris Moore’s Early Social Devel­op­ment Lab, we study what young chil­dren know about them­selves and others.

As an under­grad­u­ate, you can gain valu­able research expe­ri­ence by becom­ing involved in our lab’s work. Vol­un­teers are needed to help with a vari­ety of research tasks, such as data entry, cod­ing, and assist­ing at par­tic­i­pant visits.

If you are reli­able, com­mit­ted, and keenly inter­ested in devel­op­men­tal psy­chol­ogy, please con­tact us about vol­un­teer­ing as a research assis­tant in our lab.

Visit http://esdl.psychology.dal.ca to learn more about our work!

For infor­ma­tion about vol­un­teer­ing or to apply, please con­tact our lab coor­di­na­tor, Julie Longard.

Julie Lon­gard, BSc (Hons), MA
Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor
Early Social Devel­op­ment Lab
Depart­ment of Psy­chol­ogy, Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity
Room 1420, Life Sci­ences Cen­tre
1355 Oxford Street
P.O. Box 15000
B3H 4R2

Phone: (902) 494‑6106
Email: esdl@dal.ca
Website: http://esdl.psychology.dal.ca

QUIET STUDY SPACE

September 2nd, 2011

If you are a Psy­chol­ogy / Neu­ro­science Major, beyond your first year of study, you are eli­gi­ble for your VERY OWN Study Car­rel! The Car­rel Area is a quiet, pri­vate & locked Study Area located on the 4th floor of the Psy­chol­ogy Department.

Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be asked to vol­un­teer one hour a week, as a Study Cen­tre Atten­dant (located next to the Study Car­rel area). Infor­ma­tion for Atten­dants will be given, along with keys to these areas.

To apply, fill out both sides of the Orange Car­rel Appli­ca­tion cards (avail­able out­side Rm. 4264).

Appli­ca­tions can also be com­pleted online by fol­low­ing the link at:

http://psychology.dal.ca/ppool.php

Com­plete all ques­tions to the best of your cur­rent knowl­edge, includ­ing your sched­ule. Also, please sign-up for your pre­ferred time on the Study Cen­tre Duty Sheet (out­side Rm 4264 – or spec­ify online).

Place your com­pleted signed card in the enve­lope next to the door in Rm. 4264.  Please sub­mit all appli­ca­tions (elec­tronic or oth­er­wise) by Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 15 (Study Cen­tre duties begin Mon­day, Sept. 26).

Address any ques­tions to Patti, phone #: 494‑6539/494‑6551,

Email: ppool@dal.ca

Proctors & Markers

September 2nd, 2011

We are accept­ing appli­ca­tions for Proc­tors and Mark­ers but we are cur­rently out of hard-copy pay­roll appli­ca­tions, you can down­load these and apply online by fol­low­ing the links at:

http://psychology.dal.ca/ppool.php

For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Patti at (ppool@dal.ca),
Or call 494‑6539/494‑6551.

Children ages 8–14 needed for cold water study

August 31st, 2011

We are look­ing for chil­dren between the ages of 8 and 14 years old who want to par­tic­i­pate in a fun research study in the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain Research at the IWK Health Centre.

Chil­dren and par­ents will be asked to come into the lab for 60 min­utes. When you come in we will explain all of the details of the study and ask you if you and your child want to par­tic­i­pate, then you and your child will be asked a few demo­graphic ques­tions and your child will par­tic­i­pate in a cold water task and answer a few ques­tions about what the task felt like. This cold water task has been used in many of our research stud­ies before and kids have gen­er­ally enjoyed doing it. This study is a fun oppor­tu­nity for par­ents and chil­dren to par­tic­i­pate in research that will help us bet­ter under­stand some inter­est­ing aspects of children’s pain and will make a con­tri­bu­tion to science.

Par­ents will receive $5 to assist with park­ing and chil­dren will receive $10 and a junior sci­en­tist thank you cer­tifi­cate for their help.

If you are inter­ested in find­ing out more about this research study, please con­tact either us at (902) 470‑6906 or leah.wofsy@iwk.nshealth.ca

Visual search & attention: 8s ’n probes

August 26th, 2011

Com­pen­sa­tion
$15.00 CAD

Dura­tion
1.5 hours

Descrip­tion
In this study will respond to tar­gets appear­ing on a com­puter screen by mov­ing your eyes while wear­ing head mounted eye-tracking equip­ment (Fig­ure 1).

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision.

Prepa­ra­tion
Remove eye makeup

Loca­tion
Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity, Life Sci­ences Cen­ter, third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge (down the hall from the main psy­chol­ogy office).

Researcher
Christo­pher Dean

Phone
+1 902 494 6551

Email
typographer@gmail.com

Visual search & attention: Gone fishin’

August 16th, 2011

Fig­ure 1: A happy fish

Descrip­tion
In this exper­i­ment you’ll per­form a game-like task by respond­ing to stim­uli on a screen (Fig­ure 1) with key presses.

Com­pen­sa­tion
$15.00 CAD.

Loca­tion
Third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge down the hall from the main office in the Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity Life Sci­ences Center.

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision and hearing.

Dura­tion
60 minutes

Researcher
Christopher Dean

Phone
+1 902 494 6551

Email
typographer@gmail.com

Do you sometimes smoke cigarettes?

August 8th, 2011

Have you had at least five cig­a­rettes in the last week, but do not smoke every day?  Do you also occa­sion­ally drink alcohol?

Dal­housie Tobacco and Addic­tions Lab­o­ra­tory is look­ing for indi­vid­u­als who some­times smoke cig­a­rettes for a brief research study if you meet the fol­low­ing criteria:

  • Are 19 years of age or older
  • Do not intend to quit smok­ing in the next 30 days
  • Smoke at least five cig­a­rettes per week, but not daily
  • Con­sume a min­i­mum of 4 drinks at least once per week
  • Are not cur­rently using nico­tine replace­ment therapy

Research par­tic­i­pants who qual­ify for our research will be com­pen­sated for their time on an hourly basis, and may qual­ify for future sub­se­quent research projects.

If you are inter­ested and want more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact us at smokealc@dal.ca with you name and a phone num­ber we can reach you at.  One of the researchers will call, explain the nature of the study, and will help deter­mine if you meet cri­te­ria to participate.

EEG & eye-tracking

August 5th, 2011

Descrip­tion
In this exper­i­ment you will make eye move­ments and press but­tons in response to tar­gets on a screen while wear­ing EEG head­gear (elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy). The EEG head­gear looks some­what like a bathing cap and mon­i­tors brain activ­ity. In order for it to work prop­erly, gel will be applied to your head, so you will need to rinse your hair afterwards.

Com­pen­sa­tion
$20.00 CAD.

Loca­tion
Third floor psy­chol­ogy lounge down the hall from the main office in the Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity Life Sci­ences Cen­ter.

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision. All eye makeup must be removed.

Dura­tion
120 min­utes

Exper­i­menter
Christo­pher Dean

Con­tact
typographer@gmail.com

Phone
+1 902 494 6551

Research participation opportunity in the McMullen Visual Cognition Lab

August 4th, 2011

Inter­ested in Research?  Par­tic­i­pate in our object nam­ing exper­i­ments for 10$ an hour!

You can par­tic­i­pate if:

–Eng­lish is your first language

–You have nor­mal vision or wear contacts/glasses

–You do not have any neu­ro­log­i­cal or motor deficits

We are located in the Psy­chol­ogy Depart­ment of the Life Sci­ences Cen­ter at Dal­housie University

Con­tact heathmatheson@dal.ca for fur­ther infor­ma­tion or to book an appointment!

$10 for wearing eye-tracking equipment & pressing a button

July 4th, 2011

Visual search and atten­tion — 4

Fig­ure 1: Christo­pher Dean wear­ing Eye­Link II eye-tracking equipment.

Descrip­tion
This is a study of atten­tion where you will respond to tar­gets appear­ing on a com­puter screen by press­ing but­tons on a key­board. This study will exam­ine mech­a­nisms of atten­tional ori­ent­ing while eye move­ments are mon­i­tored. Dur­ing the exper­i­ment, par­tic­i­pants will be asked to fix­ate a cen­tral loca­tion on a com­puter screen and min­i­mize all move­ments, other than task responses. Task demands will require sub­jects to make responses to tar­get stim­uli, such as press­ing but­tons or mov­ing their eyes to appro­pri­ate loca­tions on the com­puter screen. Note that an eye-movement mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem (Fig­ure 1) will be placed on your head, so all head­gear must be removed for the exper­i­ment. If you have cor­rected vision you must wear con­tacts (not glasses) since reflec­tions can inter­fere with the eye-tracking equip­ment. Please do not wear any type of eye-makeup what­so­ever. It will inter­fere with the eye-tracking equipment.

Eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments
Nor­mal or cor­rected to nor­mal vision. Con­tacts only, no glasses.

Dura­tion
45 minutes

Prepa­ra­tion
Remove eye makeup

Com­pen­sa­tion
$10.00 CAD.

Researcher
Christo­pher Dean

Phone
+1 902 494 6551

Email
typographer@gmail.com

Poll update

May 2nd, 2011

I for­got to men­tion that I’ll keep the poll up for a week, clos­ing it mid­night May 7th.

Please read! Poll to count psyc.me subscribers and to evaluate medium

May 1st, 2011

Hi folks,

Mike Lawrence here, I’m a grad stu­dent in the depart­ment and I’m the one that created/maintains this site. I’d like to get a sense of the num­ber of peo­ple that visit this site, whether directly or by RSS feed. The for­mer is easy (we get about 100 direct web vis­its per month), but count­ing RSS sub­scribers is more tricky. To do a proper count, I think the best approach is to ask every­one who sees this ad to com­plete the ques­tion­naire below. The num­ber of responses should help eval­u­ate the num­ber of sub­scribers. Also, the con­tent of the poll will help me eval­u­ate the degree to which this elec­tronic medium com­pares to the tra­di­tional “posters on the wall” approach. (Extra points for fig­ur­ing out why this might not be con­sid­ered a gen­er­al­iz­able poll).

What medium(s) would you pre­fer with regards to ads for study par­tic­i­pa­tion and lab assis­tant opportunities?

  • All ads should be both posted online and posted as phys­i­cal posters in the depart­ment (78%, 7 Votes)
  • All ads should be posted online only (22%, 2 Votes)
  • Some ads should be posted online and some should be posted as phys­i­cal posters in the depart­ment (0%, 0 Votes)
  • All ads should be posted as phys­i­cal posters in the depart­ment only (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I have an opin­ion that does not fit with the above choices (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Vot­ers: 9

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ACS IOR Experiment

April 14th, 2011

Par­tic­i­pate in our exper­i­ments for 10$ an hour! We are run­ning sev­eral Eye mon­i­tor­ing and EEG exper­i­ments this spring and need participants.

You can participate if:

–Eng­lish is your first language

–You have nor­mal vision or wear contacts/ NO glasses or Eye makeup Please!

–You do not have any neu­ro­log­i­cal or motor deficits

We are located in the Psy­chol­ogy Depart­ment of the Life Sci­ences Cen­ter at Dal­housie University

Con­tact pdill@dal.ca or call 494‑6551 and talk to Chris or Patti to book an appointment!

Can you tell if kids have pain or not?

March 29th, 2011

We are look­ing for par­ents of chil­dren between the ages of 8 and 12 years of age to take part in an IWK research project to see how well par­ents can tell if kids are fak­ing or hid­ing pain!

The study involves vis­it­ing the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain Research at the IWK for about 60 min­utes, at a time that is con­ve­nient for you (includ­ing evenings and week­ends).  A $10 dona­tion will be made to the IWK Health Cen­tre Foun­da­tion on behalf of each par­tic­i­pant. Par­ents will receive $5 to help with trans­porta­tion costs and to thank them for their time.

Please call 470‑6906 to speak to a research assis­tant or email katelynn.boerner@dal.ca to find out more about the study!

SUMMER Volunteers Needed!

March 16th, 2011

Look­ing for research expe­ri­ence and a sum­mer­time vol­un­teer position?

Inter­ested in learn­ing more about autism spec­trum disorder?

The John­son lab is look­ing for enthu­si­as­tic, moti­vated vol­un­teers to assist with stud­ies exam­in­ing chil­dren, ado­les­cents, and adults with autism spec­trum disorder. Research vol­un­teers will learn how to score psy­cho­log­i­cal tests and will assist in par­tic­i­pant test­ing, data entry, and stim­u­lus prepa­ra­tion. Some of the stud­ies include:

-Ill­ness Knowl­edge & Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: What do youths with autism spec­trum dis­or­der do when they get sick?

-Pref­er­ence Acqui­si­tion: How do chil­dren form pref­er­ences for cer­tain things?

-Infor­ma­tion Pro­cess­ing: How do dif­fer­ent groups of peo­ple at dif­fer­ent devel­op­men­tal points process information?

Inter­ested in apply­ing? Please fill out our vol­un­teer appli­ca­tion (located here), and return to Heather at johnsonlab@dal.ca.

**Participants Needed For Vision Research**

January 21st, 2011

The IWK Health Cen­tre and Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity are con­duct­ing a study on how the brain responds to dif­fer­ent pat­terns of visual stim­u­la­tion. We are cur­rently look­ing for peo­ple between 10 and 65 years of age to take part in the study.

 

You or your child may take part in the study if:

You have nor­mal vision in both eyes (with glasses or con­tact lenses if needed)

OR

You have a con­di­tion known as ambly­opia (“lazy eye”) usu­ally treated by patch­ing one eye in childhood.

OR

You have a con­di­tion known as optic neu­ropa­thy (fre­quently asso­ci­ated with mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis, dia­betes, rheuma­toid arthritis)

OR

You have a con­di­tion affect­ing the retina known as mac­u­lopa­thy (fre­quently asso­ci­ated with dia­betes and ageing)

AND

You do not have cataracts, reduced co-operation, or nys­tag­mus (shaky eyes)

The study will take place at the IWK Health Cen­tre and take about 90 min­utes of your time.  Par­tic­i­pants will be com­pen­sated for their time.  If you are inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in this research study, or would like more infor­ma­tion please contact:

Kari Smith at ksmith@dal.ca

Effects of Nocturnal Sleep on Napping and Learning

September 19th, 2010
Our study is ongo­ing until at least Decem­ber 2010, maybe longer. 
 
The study is run over three days:
–The first night you will come in around 10 pm and sleep in the lab overnight just to get accus­tomed to the lab set­ting. You will go home at 8 am.
–The sec­ond night you will come in around 10 pm and sleep in the lab overnight, and your EEG will be recorded with elec­trodes on your face and scalp.  You will be asked to stay in the lab the fol­low­ing day.
–The third and final day, you will stay in the lab upon wak­ing up and you will be asked to do com­puter tasks through­out the day. You will leave at approx­i­mately 8 pm that evening. Meals on Wednes­day will be pro­vided and you will be com­pen­sated for your time.
 
The lab at the  Abbie Lane build­ing at the QE2 is shared, and thus most of my study days allot­ted to me are Mon­day evenings, Tues­day evenings and Wednes­day day­time ses­sions. This may require you to miss some activ­i­ties on a Wednes­day, and you should plan for this accordingly.
 
If you are still inter­ested in the study and you absolutely can­not make a Wednes­day day off work for you, I may be able to sched­ule you a week­end time slot in extreme circumstances.
You MUST be on oral birth con­trol pills, and you MUST NOT be within 7 days until the onset of men­stru­a­tion or men­stru­at­ing at the time of the study, so please con­sider this when you con­sider which time slot you would like to book for yourself.

Finally,  you are required to wear an acti­graph (sort of like a wrist watch that mea­sures your wrist motion) for 1 week before your par­tic­i­pa­tion in the study. I would be able to meet you at Dal­housie, the QE2, or some­where con­ve­nient for you to talk to you about the study, fill out ques­tion­naires and get you set up with an acti­graph the Mon­day before the week you want to participate.

Please con­tact Avery Nixon at Avery.Nixon@dal.ca or at 902–488-7303 if you are interested!

fMRI Sleep Study — Dr. Jason Ivanoff

July 26th, 2010
We are recruit­ing vol­un­teers to par­tic­i­pate in a research study that will inves­ti­gate the effects of par­tial sleep depri­va­tion and a sub­se­quent recu­per­a­tive day­time nap on deci­sion mak­ing by com­bin­ing cog­ni­tive test­ing and func­tional neu­roimag­ing (MRI)
Vol­un­teers will be duly com­pen­sated to cover costs for par­tic­i­pat­ing in this study.
Vol­un­teers must:
- be between 19 and 35 years of age
- nor­mal sleep patterns
- have nor­mal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision by con­tact lenses)
- other exclu­sion­ary cri­te­ria apply

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact Ryan (at ryan.blagdon@gmail.com) or Evan (at evan_nemeth@hotmail.com)

Offline POKER PLAYERS (e.g., casino, friend’s, home)

February 12th, 2010

We are con­duct­ing a research study inves­ti­gat­ing pat­terns and moti­va­tions of poker players.

If you:
• Are 19–34 years old
• Have played OFFLINE POKER (e.g. casino, with friends) at least 2 times a month for the last 3 months
• Have played offline poker at least 10 times in your life
• Have played for offline money

• Have NOT played online more than 10 times or in the past 3 months.

You may be eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate in a research study inves­ti­gat­ing pat­terns and moti­va­tions of poker players.

If you choose to par­tic­i­pate in this study, you will be eli­gi­ble for com­pen­sa­tion. Each par­tic­i­pant will be required to attend 1 ses­sion at Dal­housie University.

If you are inter­ested and want more infor­ma­tion please con­tact us via e-mail at gamble@dal.ca or call 494‑4596. Replies to this ad and par­tic­i­pa­tion in the study will be strictly confidential.

Your par­tic­i­pa­tion in the study is com­pletely vol­un­tary and is not con­sid­ered a form of employ­ment. Dal­housie Uni­ver­sity will not be issu­ing a T4A for any hon­o­rar­ium you receive.

Volunteer in the Klein Lab

February 12th, 2010

The Klein lab is seek­ing stu­dents inter­ested in vol­un­teer­ing in a lab that spe­cial­izes in the study of human infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing, par­tic­u­larly atten­tion. The lab typ­i­cally uses sim­ple video-game-like exper­i­ments to inves­ti­gate human infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing. These inves­ti­ga­tions often serve to inspire or test for­mal mod­els of cog­ni­tion. Dr. Klein will also soon begin a long-term project seek­ing to develop video games that will help ame­lio­rate cog­ni­tive deficits asso­ci­ated with stroke, Parkinson’s dis­ease, and typ­i­cal aging.




Learn­ing opportunities:

  • Pro­gram­ming video-game-like experiments
  • Com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Elec­troen­cephlo­graphic data collection
  • Eye-movement data collection
  • Com­pu­ta­tional cog­ni­tive modelling
  • Sta­tis­ti­cal pro­gram­ming and advanced statistics
  • Research ethics documentation





Lab Projects (ongo­ing, planned and wish-listed):

  • The influ­ence of spa­tial atten­tion on memory
    • involves: com­put­er­ized data col­lec­tion with eye monitoring
  • The influ­ence of tem­po­ral atten­tion on memory
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • The influ­ence of task atten­tion on memory
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Imag­ing tem­po­ral attention
    • involves: Elec­troen­cephlog­ra­phy & com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Tem­po­ral atten­tion & response preparation
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Enhance­ment of attention
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Enhance­ment of meditation
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Data visualization
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Test­ing a model of inter-aural cor­re­la­tion change detection
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Tem­po­ral order judge­ments in baseball
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Imag­ing atten­tion con­trol settings
    • involves: Elec­troen­cephlog­ra­phy & com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Spa­tial and tem­po­ral attention
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Divided atten­tion: where are you look­ing at?
    • involves: basic com­put­er­ized data collection
  • Mod­el­ling atten­tion dur­ing reading
    • involves: com­put­er­ized sim­u­la­tion and sta­tis­ti­cal com­par­i­son to human data





Inter­ested indi­vid­u­als should con­tact Mike. Include a note express­ing your inter­ests, cur­rent skills, and skills that you hope to learn.

Familiarity and Emotion

February 9th, 2010

Does famil­iar­ity influ­ence pro­cess­ing of emo­tional expressions?

This is a 2-part study, open to any­one 16 years of age or older. The main objec­tive of the project is to inves­ti­gate how we process our own emo­tional expres­sions (self) vs. those of peo­ple we do not know (other). In Part 1, your facial expres­sion will be recorded while look­ing at images pre­sented on a com­puter screen. In Part 2, you will be tested on recog­ni­tion of your own facial responses to the images and the facial responses of another, unknown, per­son to the same images. Record­ing of your facial expres­sion in Part 1 is manda­tory for par­tic­i­pa­tion. If there are any prob­lems in the record­ings, such as tech­ni­cal prob­lems, then you may not be asked to return for Part 2. Both ses­sions will take no more than an hour to com­plete and you will receive $10 per ses­sion completed.

Please email Alanna Gravely (agravely@dal.ca) for more infor­ma­tion about the study and to sched­ule your ses­sion for Part 1.

Helping Kids Deal with Pain

February 8th, 2010

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Are you look­ing for a fun research activ­ity for your children?

We are look­ing for healthy chil­dren between the ages of 10 and 14 years of age to take part in a research project com­par­ing dif­fer­ent ways to help kids feel bet­ter when they’re in pain.

The study involves vis­it­ing the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain research here at the IWK for about 60 min­utes, at a time that is con­ve­nient for your fam­ily (includ­ing evenings and week­ends).  Chil­dren will receive a $15 to thank them for par­tic­i­pat­ing. Par­ents will also receive $5 to help with trans­porta­tion costs and to thank them for their time.

Please call, (902) 470‑6906 or e-mail mark.petter@dal.ca to find out more about the study!

Children’s Feelings and Pain

February 8th, 2010

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Do you have a child between the ages of 8–12? If so, we need your help!

We are look­ing for healthy 8–12 year olds to par­tic­i­pate in an excit­ing study at the IWK Health Cen­tre. You and your child will visit the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain Research to par­tic­i­pate in a research project study­ing children’s feel­ings and pain.  For help­ing us and to thank you, you will receive $20 to help with trans­porta­tion costs and your child will receive $20 and a certificate. To learn more or find out if you are eli­gi­ble, please Call 470‑6906 or Email melanie.noel@dal.ca

Children’s Friendship Study 2

February 8th, 2010

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We are look­ing for healthy chil­dren between 8 and 12 years of age to par­tic­i­pate in a 30-minute study at the IWK Health Centre.

You and your child will visit the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain research to par­tic­i­pate in a research project study­ing how chil­dren per­ceive peers with a chronic ill­ness. For help­ing us, your child will receive a cer­tifi­cate and a prize, and you will receive $5 to help with trans­porta­tion costs and to thank you for your time.

To learn more or find out if you are eli­gi­ble, please call Aimee at 470‑6906 or email aimee.dort@iwk.nshealth.ca

Children’s Friendship Study 1

February 8th, 2010

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Do you have a healthy child or a child with a chronic ill­ness between the ages of 8 and 12 who enjoys play­ing games and lis­ten­ing to sto­ries? If so, we need your help!

We are look­ing for healthy chil­dren and chil­dren with a chronic ill­ness between the ages of 8 and 12 years and one par­ent to take part in a research project at the IWK Health Cen­tre that explores how chil­dren make friends.

You and your child would visit the Cen­tre for Pedi­atric Pain Research for about 60 min­utes. For help­ing us, your child will receive $10 and a cer­tifi­cate, and you will receive $10 to help with trans­porta­tion costs and to thank you for your time.

To learn more or to find out if you are eli­gi­ble, please con­tact Aimee Dort by phone at 470‑6906 or by email at aimee.dort@iwk.nshealth.ca