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Brain & Cognition Laboratory Guidelines & General Operating Rules

GENERAL PURPOSE

The Brain & Cognition Laboraroty (BrainCog Lab) is designed to conduct scientific research and for individual use by Psychology Department faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students.

Researchers at the BrainCog Lab must work to demonstrate a professional attitude that will help maintain a supportive environment. Researchers are responsible for their own behavior and performance, for understanding what is expected of them, and for meeting those expectations. Professionalism is expected from all researchers.

SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES

The primary use of the BrainCog Lab is for activities listed below (in that order):

  • Psychological experimentation.
  • Development of experimental materials.
  • Undergraduate/graduate student and Postdoctoral research training.
  • Data processing (data entry and statistical analysis).
  • Laboratory meetings.

GENERAL OPERATING RULES

  • No food or drink is allowed in the BrainCog Lab at any time under any circumstances.
  • Software may be loaded on the disks of the computers in the lab or on relevant servers ONLY by faculty.
  • Users are responsible for saving their own work and backups.
  • Data entry/analysis is limited to computers (tag numbers: 43273, 43275, 44658, 35497, 42522) located on the periphery of the BrainCog Lab.
  • Computers in room CNS 205C (sound proof room) are specifically designated for ERP-EEG research.
  • Workstation iMac/PC computers are specifically designated for the execution/preparation of behavioral experiments.
  • Please do not download any programs, games, or pictures from the internet without the permission of the faculty supervisor.
  • Please do not use lab computers to connect to any social media sites.

BRAINCOG LAB SECURITY & MAINTENANCE

Only authorized faculty and undergraduate/graduate students may open the BrainCog Lab. All trash and papers must be picked up and recycled or discarded. Chairs must be pushed back to their original places and all computers must be shut down properly.

If any problems are encountered with software and/or hardware while using the lab, please notify the faculty supervisor as soon as possible.

PARTICIPANT SCHEDULING

Student participants can sign up for studies any time through the SONA participation pool system. Before scheduling an experiment, please coordinate with other researchers at the BrainCog Lab to prevent conflicting scheduling.

SHARED DRIVE

The BrainCog Lab uses Dropbox and Google drives as shared drives. These drives are accessible on the designated data entry computers. Students and faculty can store files on these drives and have access to these files from any computer in the BrainCog Lab.

BRAINCOG LAB PHONE NUMBERS

  • Roberto R. Heredia (CNS 205: Ext. 2637; rheredia@tamiu.edu).
  • Anna B. Cieślicka (AIC–342: Ext. 2611; anna.cieslicka@tamiu.edu).
  • For a security related emergency, please contact campus police at Ext. 2100.