Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
ERP-FRP Laboratory
When brain cells fire, they release tiny amounts of electricity that travel through the brain and scalp to escape into the outside world. This bid for freedom is very convenient because it allows us to measure a person's brain responses from outside their head. We do this using small sensors that are sewn into a soft cap.
In the MACCS ERP-FRP lab, we measure two types of brain responses: event-related potentials (ERPs) and fixation-related potentials (FRPs). An ERP is the average brain response to a particular stimulus, such as a high-pitched musical note or the photo of a face. An FRP is the average brain response to one part of a whole visual stimulus, such as the eyes in a face, or a word written in a sentence. Thanks to our FRP collaborators in Salzburg, MACCS now runs one of only five research-active FRP systems in the world.
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Further Information
MACCS Seminars
- Tuesday 7th Feb,
Ludo Verhoeven,
"Reading acquisition in a transparent orthography" - Thursday 23rd Feb,
Prof Nic Fay,
"Evidence for Selection in the Evolution of Human Communication" - Thursday 23rd Feb,
Professor Kevin D. Haggerty,
"Surveillance and/of Nature: Monitoring Beyond the Human"
Who's Visiting MACCS
- Professor Jennifer Radden
- Professor Ludo Verhoeven
- Amir Sadeghi
- Distinguished Professor Mabel Rice
- Dr Philip Gerrans
- Dr Jakob Hohwy
- Associate Professor Dominic Murphy
- Dr Ami Sambai
- [Previous Visitors]
Contact Details
Telephone: (02) 9850 9599
Fax : (02) 9850 6059
Email : maccs@mq.edu.au
Web : www.maccs.mq.edu.au