Looking for Native Hebrew or Native Hangul Readers
for an fMRI Language Study at Yale Psychology
We are researchers at the Yale Psychology Department. We are running a project examining how alphabets are designed and evolved in different writing systems. To study the effect of learning and visual expertise, we would like to ask native Hebrew readers as well as native Hangul (Korean) readers to read both Hebrew and Hangul letters in an fMRI study. It will be a two-hour study, with the actual MRI scanning being about 1.5 hours. We will compensate your time and effort with a $60 cash payment.
We additionally require that you:
(1) have normal or corrected to normal visual acuity (i.e., can wear contacts or MRI-safe glasses with standard prescriptions),
(2) be right-handed,
(3) be between the ages of 18 and 35, and
(4) be able to lie still for about 1.5 hours during the MRI scan.
You also need to be MRI safe (i.e., with no metal in the body; but a lower metal retainer in the mouth is OK; please fill out this MRI safety checklist if you are interested in participating).
The scanning will be done at the Yale BrainWorks facility, part of the Wu Tsai Institute, at 100 College Street. Free parking can be provided.
If you are interested, please email: yaoda.xu@yale.edu. We can schedule the scan at a time that works best for you. Thanks so much!