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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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
Students traditionally receive full support. Additionally, there are
opportunities to spend time at Los Alamos National
Laboratories.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Please visit our laboratory website below for further
information.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html<br><br>
</a>This website has our application information:<br><br>
<a href="http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/grad_admission.html" eudora="autourl">http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/grad_admission.html</a><br><br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Jim Kroger<br><br>
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Jim Kroger<br>
Department of Psychology<br>
220 Science Hall, MSC 3452<br>
Williams Street<br>
New Mexico State University<br>
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html<br>
</a>Tel: (505) 646 2243<br>
Fax: (505) 646 6212<br>
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