Cognitive Neuroscience research at the 麻豆影院 thrives across different departments and different areas of psychology. The following are some of the primary resources available to those wishing to conduct cutting-edge cognitive science research.
Resources
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
CU聽麻豆影院 and the (MRN) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have joined forces as the 聽(INC). This marks the start of a long-term collaboration between the Mind Research Network聽and CU聽麻豆影院 that will significantly enhance the neuroimaging capabilities of both organizations. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Marie Banich is the Executive Director of the Consortium.
At the heart of the center is a state of the art Siemens 3T Trio Magnetic Resonance Imaging System. The scanner is located at CU聽麻豆影院鈥檚 Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC) ().
Electroencephalography (EEG, ERP)
Three faculty have laboratories with EEG recording capabilities. Tim Curran鈥檚 laboratory currently uses two 256-channel and one 128-channel EEG systems (Electrical Geodesics Inc.). The 256-channel systems are housed in the Muenzinger Psychology and Neuroscience Building (D458 & D464C). The 128-channel system is currently located at the Clinical and Translational Research Center on the 麻豆影院 Campus, where the system is being used in research examining drug effects on learning and memory. Tiffany Ito鈥檚 lab in the Muenzinger Psychology and Neuroscience Building houses 3 EEG systems (Neuroscan Synamps). Another full EEG system (Neuroscan Synamps) is housed in Al Kim鈥檚 lab at the Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC). These systems are available for use by other faculty and graduate students.
Computational Modeling
Our program emphasizes the use of computational models to inform our understanding of聽brain function. In particular, we aim to use our knowledge from other neuroscience methods聽(fMRI & EEG) to inform our computational models and vice-versa. 聽We have a number of large scale high-performance computational resources available, managed by our excellent at the Office of Information Technology.
