Grant for Lab Technicians Support
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The purpose of this propose is to fund a lab technician position for the Visual Motor Laboratory (VML). Research within VML involves projects that examine visual attention, arousal, mental workload, and attentional bias. The goal of the VML research program is to understand how vision and cognition control and modulate behavior. This research is based on the use of eye movement recordings, EMG, EEG, and ECG as well as other psychophysiological measures to examine cognitive function in information rich environments. The lab is designed to measure human behavior in dynamic situations through virtual simulations, video games, or in more static, self-paced laboratory tasks. A secondary focus will include research to determine how visual search behavior influences motor dysfunction such as freezing of gait in Parkinson?s disease. At the core of the research is to investigate the links between the perceptual (processing) and motor systems (output). This line of research currently has been funded through Research and Creative Activity Grants as well as CITTR, and has the potential for external funding through National Science Foundation or National Institute of Health. The lab technician position will help to develop these future projects as well as manage the VML activities.
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