Cognitive incl. Biological Psychology
Equipment
The Biological Psychology Unit has the following equipment (Hard- and Software):
- 4 electrically and acoustically shielded experimental chamber (IAC)
- 2 Synamps 32-channel-EEG amplifier (NeuroScan, see picture)
- BrainAmp DC 128-channel-EEG amplifier
- BrainAmp DC 32-channel-EEG amplifier
- BioSemi ActiveTwo 128-channel-EEG amplifier
- Zebris CMS20 3D-Digitizer
- Dummy head for recording natural sounds and measuring sound pressure level (Head Acoustics, see picture)
- Scripting and control of experiments:
- NeuroScan Stim system for running experiments, synchronizing experiments and EEG acquisition, and response capturing (on loan from the University of Munich)
- ERTS-programming suite, scripting system for controlling experiments, synchronizing experiments and EEG acquisition, and response capturing
- FreeStim, multimodal soundfield stimulation system for visual and auditory stimuli (designed by Widmann, Schröger, Eimer, & Klinger, see picture)
- Cogent-Toolbox for MATLAB
- Analysis systems:
- ERTS-Code, analysis software for behavioral data (for DOS-PCs)
- Perl scripting language, multi-purpose language for analyzing data (for DOS- and Linux-systems)
- NeuroScan Scan EEG analysis software
- ANT eeprobe 3.3, EEG analysis software for Linux-systems
- BrainVision Analyzer
- EEGLAB-Toolbox for MATLAB
- SAS- und SPSS-statistical analysis software (for Windows-systems)
- Lab- and office computers are connected via a 100Mbit network governed by a server running Linux/Samba
