psyc.me

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.

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 4^th 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

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.