Maryland Vision Science Lab Object Recognition Studies

The Maryland Vision Science Lab will be doing studies on object recognition with MEG throughout the semester! We will have several slots available all week. If you are available and interested, please send an email to UMDVisionStudy@gmail.com. Participants will be  paid $15-20 and the experiment usually runs for about 2 hours.

Here are additional details about our study...

We run subjects in a magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanner which serves as a passive means (no electrical pulses like with an MRI) of measuring your neural activity. We are particularly interested in measuring the neural activity that results from visual stimuli. During the task we will ask you to categorize different pictures by pressing two different buttons while you're in the scanner. Since the scanner runs on magnetic fields, we ask subjects to remove all metal before they enter the scanner. This includes eye glasses, jewelry, metal belt buckles, and wire bras (we recommend simply not wearing any of these the day of the study). If you need glasses to see, then you must wear contacts. This also means that having braces, metal fillings, or any other permanent metal fixtures disqualifies you from participating. Monetary compensation ranges from $15-$20 depending on experimental behavioral task performance. The experiment usually runs for about 2 hours. On the day of the scan a research assistant will meet you in front of Marie Mount Hall (mall side) at your scheduled time.