Lab Facilities

The lab is located in Burrowes Building, room 37, and occupies a 1000 sq. ft. space. The space houses equipment for 3 professors, and is used by many researchers of all levels each semester, including professors, post-doctoral or visiting researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants.

This lab is equipped with 6 Whisper Rooms, 4 sound-attenuated behavioral booths and facilities for preparing and cleaning EEG supplies.

Eye Tracking

One of our booths is equipped with an SR Research EyeLink 1000 Plus desktop-mounted eye tracker. This setup includes the eye tracker and associated computers (display and host).

The lab also has three portable eye trackers. We have 2 SR Research EyeLink Portable Duo eye trackers and 1 Tobii Pro Fusion eye tracker. These eye-trackers allow us to take our eye-tracking technology on the road, which allows testing in locations that don’t have eye-tracker setups, such as in schools or out in communities around the world.

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Two of our sound booths are equipped with Brain Vision Electroencephalography (EEG) setups. These setups include the associated computers (display and EEG), as well as 32-channel sets of active electrodes and 4 different-sized caps for running experiments investigating electrical brain responses to visual or auditory stimuli. One of these setups has a slightly more updated design, featuring the actiCAP slim electrodes.

We also house facilities for preparing and cleaning EEG supplies.

Behavioral Setups

Additionally, the lab includes 4 behavioral testing booths, each equipped with PCs, associated button boxes for use with the E-prime and other experimental software (SR, Chronos, & Millikey boxes), digital flash recorders, compact disk recorders, and microphones for digital sound recording, as well as a host of laptop computers.

Other Equipment & Workstations

Equipment is available for checkout by lab members and includes computers, audio recorders, microphones, SR Research Chronos boxes, and other essential research equipment. There are also several workstations and computers for lab members to use while in the lab to process and code data.

Center for Language Science

As members of the Center for Language Science at Penn State (CLS), my students and I also have access to dedicated research laboratories that are shared with all members. An additional room at the CLS houses another Eyelink 1000 eye-tracking system from my eye-tracking lab with chin rest and associated computers, button box, and audio recording equipment to play auditory stimuli.