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Volunteer in the Klein Lab

Friday, 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.

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