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，师生合作研究是一个公认的传统。然而，在实施这个项目之前，学生接触到的现代测量系统是有限的。在这个项目中，我们正在为教师和学生创造能力，通过使用现代身心实验室技术，使用现代科学方法来研究身心联系。该实验室配备了一个JVC数字视频系统，用于创建视觉刺激和记录受试者的反应，还有Biopac单元、Qualisys精密运动分析系统和六个超级实验室工作站。该实验室用于师生合作研究，也用于课堂演示。我们也在进行自动化实验。从身心实验室受益的学生包括那些参加心理学课程的学生，以及那些与其他部门的教师一起工作的学生，他们寻求为学生提供跨学科的方法来进行健康和人类表现的科学研究。许多后一类学生，例如，来自戏剧、舞蹈和音乐的学生，通常不参与动手研究人类功能的科学方法。这个项目遵循APA的指导方针，在课程作业和学生实验中使用经过心理学验证的设备。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和解剖学和生理学入门课程中使用Biopac单元。（参见：Glynnis Beagley和William Beagley，“使用基于微型计算机的EG来实现和鼓励学生设计项目”，行为研究方法，仪器与计算机，1998年第30卷第2期，223-226页，以及J. Lundmark和A. Salmi，“使用Biopac学生实验室系统的探究式实验室：来自NSF-CCLI资助项目的结果”，在2001年夏威夷毛伊岛HAPS会议上发表的论文。）它还采用了瓦格纳学院（Wagner College）和玛丽蒙特学院（Marymount College）生物系提出的想法。（参见：T. Jackson等人，“引导放松的生理反应”，2003年在伊萨卡学院东部学院科学会议上发表的海报，以及J. Sutherland和C. Hoegler，“高级脑功能对人类潜水反应的影响”，2003年在伊萨卡学院东部学院科学会议上发表的海报）。该项目将增加学生与教师的合作研究，我们希望这一活动将导致出版物，并在学生和专业会议上报告。主要研究人员正在培训伊萨卡学院的其他教员如何使用实验室。

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.