Our laboratory is equiped to conduct psychophysical and functional MRI experiments.

Psychophysics

Laboratory equipment include data tablet, button boxes, joy-sticks, 2D robot arm (BKIN Technologies), infrared pupilmetric recorder for ocular position; physiological amplifiers for EMG and EEG recording. We use Apple, PC and UNIX computers for data recording and analysis.

Functional MRI

We and other Brown University researchers use a 3T TIM TRIO manufactured by Siemens Medical Solutions for MRI related research. The MRI facility has MR compatible equipment to present visual and auditory stimuli and register movements with a button box and a joy-stick. We use Apple, PC and UNIX computers for data recording and analysis. We have access to an Apple-based Compute Server for functional MRI analysis, currently using AFNI for most of our analyses.

EEG

We have an 128-channel EEG system (EGI Inc.) that we will use in connection with the robot arm or experiments requiring joy-stick or button press responses. The MRI Research Facility also has a 64-channel MRI-compatible EEG system (Brain Vision, Inc.)

 

 

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