Research

Research Areas

MARCS Auditory Laboratories consists of the following Research Areas:

• Speech & Language Associate Director: Denis Burnham
• Music, Sound & Action Associate Director: Kate Stevens
• Communication and Applied Cognition Associate Director: Mark Wiggins
• Hearing & Auditory Processes Associate Director: Chris Davis

Facilities

We also have the following facilities available to researchers.

• Baby Lab - Infant Eye Tracker, Double Video System
• Movement Analysis Lab - Vicon motion recording, OPTOTRAK, EMA
• Music Lab - MIDI Grand piano, MIDI I/O, recording & editing suite
• Auditory Processing Lab - Anechoic Chamber, multi-source microphone & multi-directional speaker arrays, Simulated Human Head for recording
• Electrophysiological Lab - 64-channel EEG in Faraday cage, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
• Human Performance Lab - Operator Eye Tracking, Flight Simulator
• AV & Psycholinguistics Lab - Face Scanner, Eye Movements in Reading
• Virtual Interactive Research Performance Environment (VIPRE) - HD cameras, microphones, movement sonification
• Thinking Head Lab -  Stelarc Talking Head, MacPro computers, 3D monitors, HD cameras and microphone arrays for interlocutor interaction