Bridging Mind And Body: An Integrative Laboratory for Psychology and Interdisciplinary Instruction

心理学(71)。在伊萨卡学院心理学系，师生合作研究是一项根深蒂固的传统。然而，在该项目实施之前，学生接触现代测量系统的机会有限。在这个项目中，我们正在为教职员工和学生创造能力，通过使用现代精神-身体实验室技术，使用现代科学方法来研究身体和精神的联系。该实验室配备了JVC数字视频系统，用于创造视觉刺激和记录受试者的反应，配有Biopac装置、Qualisys精密运动分析系统和六个SuperLab工作站。该实验室被用于师生合作研究，也用于课堂演示。我们也在实现实验的自动化。受益于使用心身实验室的学生包括那些注册了心理学课程的学生，以及那些与其他系的教员合作，试图为他们的学生提供跨学科方法的健康和人类表现科学研究的学生。这些后来者中的许多人，例如戏剧、舞蹈和音乐专业的学生，通常不会参与到研究人类机能的实践科学方法中。这个项目遵循APA的指导方针，在课程作业和学生实验中加入心理学证明的设备的使用。特别是，它正在采用阿尔玛学院的成功方法，在其心理学系的学生研究中以及在解剖学和生理学的入门课程中使用Biopac单元。(见：Glynny Beagley和William Beagley，“Using Micro-Computer Based EG to Enable and Encemed Study Designed Project”，行为研究方法，仪器和计算机，第30卷，第2期，1998年，第223-226页，以及J.Lundmark和A.Salmi，“使用Biopac学生实验室系统的基于探究的实验室：来自NSF-CCLI赠款支持项目的结果”，在HAPS会议上提交的论文，毛伊岛，HI，2001。)它还在采纳瓦格纳学院和马里蒙特学院生物系提出的想法。(参见：T.Jackson等人，在2003年伊萨卡学院的东部学院科学会议上提出的海报，以及J.Sutherland和C.Hoegler，“高级大脑功能对人类潜水反应的影响”，在东部学院科学会议上提出的海报，伊萨卡学院，2003年)。该项目正在导致师生合作研究的增加，我们预计这一活动将导致出版物并在学生和专业会议上报告。主要调查人员正在对伊萨卡学院的其他教职员工进行使用实验室的培训。

Psychology (71). Within the Ithaca College psychology department, student-faculty collaboration in research is a well-established tradition. Prior to the implementation of this project, however, student exposure to modern systems of measurement was limited. In this project we are creating the capacity for faculty and students to use modern, scientific approaches to studying body and mind connections through the use of modern mind-body laboratory technology. The laboratory is equipped with a JVC digital video system that is used to create visual stimuli and record subject responses, with Biopac units, a Qualisys precision motion analysis system, and six SuperLab workstations. The laboratory is being used for student-faculty collaborative research and also for classroom demonstrations. We are also automating experiments. The students who benefit from use of the mind-body laboratory include those enrolled in psychology courses and also those working with faculty in other departments seeking to provide their students with an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of health and human performance. Many of these latter students, for example, from theater, dance and music, do not typically participate in a hands-on scientific approach to studying human functioning. This project is following APA guidelines for building into coursework and student experiments the use of equipment that is proven in psychology. In particular, it is adapting Alma College's successful approach in using Biopac units both in student research in its psychology department and in an introductory course in anatomy and physiology. (See: Glynnis Beagley and William Beagley, "Using Micro-computer Based EG to Enable and Encourage Student Designed Projects," Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computer, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1998, pages 223-226, and J. Lundmark and A. Salmi, "Inquiry-Based Labs Using the Biopac Student Lab System: Results from an NSF-CCLI Grant Supported Project," paper presented at the HAPS Conference, Maui, HI, 2001.) It is also adapting ideas developed in the biology departments at Wagner College and Marymount College. (See: T. Jackson, et al., "Physiological Responses to Guided Relaxation," poster presented at the Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Ithaca College, 2003, and J. Sutherland and C. Hoegler, "Effects of Higher Brain Functions on the Diving Response in Humans," Poster presented at the Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Ithaca, College, 2003). The project is leading to an increase in student-faculty collaborative research and we expect this activity will lead to publications and be reported at student and professional conferences. The principal investigators are training other faculty at Ithaca College in the use of the laboratory.