Compuer Control of Experimental and Cognitive Laboratories

UTA心理学系要求支持启动人工智能实验课程，并改进实验心理学、认知过程、感觉和知觉过程的实验室。许多现代心理学研究使用计算机来测量和控制反应和事件时间，并产生刺激显示。我们目前在现有的实验课程中使用Commodore C-64计算机来实现这些功能。c -64曾经是经济实惠的，但现在已经过时了，内存有限，图形有限。我们建议用IBM兼容的计算机取代它们，这些计算机具有VGA显示器和存储各种课程的程序、图形和其他显示、数据以及系统和语言文件的能力。我们建议购买Micro Experimental Laboratory软件和pcSTEREOSCOPE的软硬件进行实验，购买新的人工智能实验课程的LISP。这将使实验室教学至少提高一个数量级，使我们能够进行许多目前无法进行的实验。它将增加实验课程的多样性，使学生能够在每门课程中进行更有意义和创造性的期末项目。在非课堂时间，设备将用于独立学习和荣誉项目，为我们最有能力的学生提供更多的研究机会。

The Department of Psychology at UTA requests support to initiate a laboratory course in Artificial Intelligence and to improve laboratories in Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, and Sensory and Perceptual Processes. Much modern psychological research uses computers for measurement and control of response and event times, and to generate stimulus displays. We currently use Commodore C-64 computers in existing laboratory courses for these functions. The C-64s were once cost-effective but are now obsolete, with modest memory and limited graphics. We propose to replace them with IBM- compatible computers with VGA monitors and the capacity to store programs, graphic and other displays, data, and system and language files for the various courses. We propose to purchase Micro Experimental Laboratory software and pcSTEREOSCOPE hard and software to perform experiments, and to purchase LISP for the new Al laboratory course. This will improve laboratory instruction by at least an order of magnitude, enabling us to perform many experiments that cannot currently be conducted. It will increase the diversity of laboratory courses and enable students to conduct more significant and creative final projects in each course. At non- classroom times the equipment will be used for independent study and honors projects, providing enhanced research opportunities to our most able students.