Instrumentation for Undergraduate Psychophysiological Program Improvements

该项目更新和加强了支持罗林斯学院心理生理学项目的设备。最近修改的课程和新的最先进的设施，受到越来越不可靠、过时或报废的设备系统的严重威胁。受影响最大的是电生理记录和分析系统。该项目获取并应用一个单一的、高度集成的计算机辅助睡眠分析和海量数据存储系统，用于数据采集/分析。该系统允许集成在线放大、A/D转换、数字频率滤波和多达24个不同数据类型(例如，EEG、EKG、EMG、EOG等)的同时通道的光盘存储。还提供在线分析和计算机化的彩色图表。该系统具有广泛的适用性，包括睡眠实验和对心算等比较认知任务的评估。拟议的仪器改进课程：(1)通过增加学生对心理生理学原理和准备、记录程序、涉及方法学的问题和分析技术的动手实验室体验；(2)由于先进的自动化和数据处理效率，允许更多的学生参与其中；(3)在更多种类的低级别课程中提供生理实验室；及(4)取消因缺乏足够的实验室设备而对高级别课程招生的限制性限制。该机构正在将NSF的拨款与同等数额的资金相匹配。

This project updates and enhances equipment supporting the psychophysiology program at Rollins College. A recently modified curriculum and a new state-of-the-art facility, were severely threatened by increasingly unreliable, outdated, or dead equipment systems. Most effected were electrophysiological recording and analysis systems. This project acquires and applies a single and highly integrated Computer Aided Sleep Analysis and Mass Data Storage System for data acquisition/analysis. The system allows for integrated on-line amplification, A/D conversion, digital frequency filtering, and optical disc storage of up to 24 simultaneous channels of various data types (e.g., EEG, EKG, EMG, EOG, etc.). On-line analyses and computerized color graphics are also available. The system is broadly applicable, including sleep experiments and evaluation of such comparative cognitive tasks as mental arithmetic. Proposed instrumentation improves the curriculum: (1) by increasing students' hands-on laboratory experiences with psychophysiological principles and preparations, recording procedures, issues involving methodology, and analysis techniques; (2) by allowing a larger number of students to be involved due to advanced automation and data-processing efficiency; (3) by offering physiological laboratories in a wider variety of lower-division courses; and (4) by eliminating restrictive upper-division enrollment limits imposed by lack of adequate laboratory equipment. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.