Facilities.

Research projects will be conducted out of our state-of-the-art research facilities in the Department’s Health Psychology Center (HPC) and SBS West laboratories. The HPC contains approximately 2000 square feet of space divided into 10 suites, a patient/subject waiting area, and an office manager’s area. Four of the suites are equipped with built-in closed-circuit television cameras and phone systems routed to a central viewing suite containing a bank of TVs for observational study. One suite is a large group room suitable for group meetings or positioning of research equipment. Three of these suites comprise the Psychophysiology Laboratories, containing state-of-the-art psychophysiology assessment equipment, including two 24-channel EEG systems, three multi-channel psychophysiological assessment/biofeedback systems, a 2-channel neurofeedback system, two blood pressure monitoring systems including a constant-cuff unit, and six PC support computers. Two additional suites serve as student researcher work areas, containing two additional PC computers for data analysis, internet searches, and manuscript preparation. In addition to the HPC, each faculty mentor has their own research space in SBS West containing equipment important for their research (e.g., an additional 32-channel EEG acquisition system, bicycle pedometers, computers, etc.). All suites are sound attenuated and are very well appointed with comfortable and functional furnishings and each contains 1 or more state-of-the-art PC or Mac computers containing data processing software relevant to the mentor’s research. Consequently, each mentee will have access to their own computer for data processing purposes; there are literally scores of other computers available throughout SBS West, all internet connected, for convenient student use. The HPC and faculty research laboratories are available fulltime in the summer for research purposes. As such, the HPC and SBS West research suites are ideal as a central research staging area for the summer REU program, allowing psychophysiological, observational, and interviewing research to be conducted with ease in a multi-use environment suitable for collegial sharing of research.