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Our study is ongo­ing and will be ongo­ing until at least August, maybe fur­ther. We don’t offer credit points, but you will be com­pen­sated with $200 dol­lars if you com­plete the study.

The study is run over three sep­a­rate 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, and you will leave at approx­i­mately 8 pm that evening. You will be fed and com­pen­sated for the study.

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, 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, so I would be able to meet you at Dal­housie, the QE2, or some­where con­ve­nient to you to pro­vide you with an acti­graph for this purpose.

There are still time slots avail­able in March and April and into the sum­mer, so please con­tact Sarah McCathie at s.mccathie@gmail.com or at 902–488-7303 if you would like to participate.