Instrumentation for Undergraduate Psychophysiological Program Improvements

本科生心理生理学项目改进的仪器

• 批准号: 8952419
• 负责人: Roger Ray
• 金额: $ 4.89万
• 依托单位: Rollins College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-05-01 至 1991-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8952419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Undergraduate; Psychophysiological; Program; Improvements

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recently modified curriculum and a new state-of-the-art facility, were severely threatened by increasingly unreliable, outdated, or dead equipment systems.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.

该项目更新和增强了支持 罗林斯学院的心理生理学课程 最近修改的 课程和一个新的国家的最先进的设施，严重 受到越来越不可靠、过时或死亡的威胁 设备系统。 受影响最大的是电生理 记录和分析系统。 该项目收购和 应用单一和高度集成的计算机辅助睡眠 数据分析与海量数据存储系统 采集/分析。 该系统允许集成 在线放大，A/D转换，数字频率 过滤和光盘存储多达24同时 各种数据类型的信道（例如，EEG、EKG、EMG、EOG等）。 在线分析和计算机彩色图形也是 available. 该系统具有广泛的适用性，包括睡眠 实验和评价等比较认知任务， 心算 建议的仪器改进了 课程设置：（1）通过增加学生的动手实验 心理生理学原理和准备的经验， 记录程序、涉及方法的问题，以及 分析技术;（2）通过允许更多的学生 由于先进的自动化和数据处理技术， 效率;（3）通过在更广泛的范围内提供生理实验室 （4）通过消除各种低年级课程; 限制性的高年级招生限制，由于缺乏 充足的实验室设备。 该机构正在匹配 NSF基金与同等金额的资金。