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The Mind and Brain Laboratory at NMSU is seeking graduate students at the Ph.D. and Masters level who are interested in research on Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as on the neural mechanisms underlying attention and control of attention.
Our Brain-Computer Interface work is currently funded by the U.S. Air Force, and is a joint project between Jim Kroger in the Mind and Brain Laboratory, and Dr. Joseph Lakey in Mathematical Sciences, and Dr. Kwong Ng in Electrical Engineering. We focus on developing algorithms for interpreting mental activity as control signals, with an emphasis on algorithms to increase speed, accuracy, and decrease training in the interest of making Brain-Computer Interfaces practical. The NMSU Psychology Department, in conjunction with the NMSU Physical Sciences Laboratory and the NMSU Computing Research Laboratory are participating in building a multi-million dollar Human Performance Research Center that will include an emphasis on future research on BCIs. Dr. Kroger is also a professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and connected to the MIND Institute there.
We are also looking at how neural mechanisms operate during reasoning and other higher cognition, with an emphasis on the functional organization and interaction of frontal and parietal cortices. It is possible for students to work in both the BCI and Attention areas. Research is also being conducted on developing superior head models for source localization.
We have a state of the art, high-density 128-channel electrophysiology laboratory using a Biosemi Active-2 system, with IBM Intellistation A Pro dual 64-bit Opteron processor workstations running the EMSE EEG analysis suite, as well as Matlab and EEGLAB and other Matlab EEG analysis packages. We have access to MRI locally for anatomical brain scans, a 32-processor Opteron cluster for high-speed data analysis, and access to fMRI and MEG facilities at the Mind Institute in Albuquerque. We are also in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratories scientists on fMRI, EEG, MEG, source localization, and computational models of neural processing.
Students traditionally receive full support. Additionally, there are opportunities to spend time at Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Interested students with backgrounds in psychology, neuroscience, biology, mathematics, engineering, physical sciences, or related disciplines, are encouraged to apply. Students must submit 3 letters of recommendation, their GPA (official transcripts), and their GRE scores. However, though the deadline is in March, we will accept promising students soon, so please contact Dr. Kroger by email if you have an interest in these positions.
Please visit our laboratory website below for further information.
http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html
This website has our application information:
http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/grad_admission.html
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