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	Home People Recent Publications Recent Presentations Grants and Fellowships Social Life Prospective Students Links Lab Calendar FCRR A Florida State University Center			Prospective Students Grad students Our lab offers graduate students the possibility to enroll either in the Cognitive or Developmental Psychology programs, depending on your professional and scientific interests. The difference is not much in terms of ongoing research; it is more a question of your long term career goals and also depends on which of the two program curricula is more appealing to you. For ongoing lines of research, refer to the listing on top of this page or check out some of our publications. If you have exciting new ideas, please let us know! We are always open to discussing research, and there is plenty of room for creativity. All our students pursue a mix of basic science and applied projects. As an example, you could do basic research on the role of word shape in reading, while also being involved with a project on attention deficits in children or visual stress in elderly computer users. Most of our research of based on the use of eye tracking methods so that becoming in expert in this advanced methodology be part of your graduate experience, creatinga major asset for your future career. Before you make your decision on where to go for graduate school is to check out the whole package: Our department has eminent experts in many fields of psychology, we collaborate with many other groups across areas, we have a brand new building with outstanding facilities, the funding situation is very good and North Florida is a very nice place to live, especially during the winter… International Visitors We have had great success with visiting students and scholars on different kinds of fellowships and stipends, including students from Germany, Taiwan and Thailand. If you want to spend some time with us, contactDr. Radach radach@psy.fsy.edu DIS Opportunities Do you like cognitive and/or developmental psychology? Don't know yet? Just try it! Our lab offers you an opportunity to get a behind the scenes of our ongoing research. How does alcohol affect human performance? What impact do computer games have on perceptual skills? Can we find better ways of diagnosing cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease? What is causing dyslexia? Does speed reading really work? Take the chance and apply for a DIS position in our lab. Not only will you get credit and research experience, we will also teach you how to design a study and how to operate modern eye tracking systems, which can be applied to many areas of research. For further information please contact Ashley Greene greene@psy.fsu.edu Useful Information related to Frequently Asked Questions about DIS positions: - Is it okay that you're only a freshman? Absolutely! One of the things we would like your help with is running subjects in our experiments. By the time we show you how to operate the eye tracking equipment and you feel comfortable enough to run an experiment on your own, a whole semester has usually passed by. So for instance if you were a senior, you would miss out on a lot of the fun stuff. - We generally want students to have GPA's of 3.0 and above. Should you have any difficulties with your classes, especially passing them, you may want to rethink working in our lab. - We are asking that you agree to work in our lab for at least 1 year, for reasons discussed above in the senior example. However, if this is too much time another option is volunteering in our lab (please email Ashley Greene (greene@psy.fsu.edu ) to discuss this further). - If you are to gain class credit as a DIS, you must agree to sign up for at least 2 credits which equals 6 in-lab work hours. To fulfill your hours you must have a few time slots where you are available for at least an hour and half. This is mainly due to the fact that most of our experiments last an hour. Again, if this is too much time another option is volunteering in our lab. - We also expect for you to have experience using Microsoft Office (e.g., Word and Excel). - Some of the tasks that we need your help with are: - assisting in data collection/running experiments - library runs/making copies, help with editing work - finding and reviewing journal articles - creating sentence materials for experiments - We would like for you to join our lab meetings where we present and discuss ongoing projects and new ideas. We generally have lab meetings once a week, for an hour and a half in the afternoon. You should make every attempt to make it to these meetings and about once every month we meet informally at a local café or pub. - While working in our lab you will gain experience, through both personal participation and interaction with grad students and faculty, what it's like to be a part of a lab at an academic research institution. As such, this is a really great opportunity for you and any future plans for graduate school or any work-related experience. Please email Ashley Greene ( greene@psy.fsu.edu) if you have any further questions about the DIS experience in the Radach Lab. Please include your full name as well as the best way to get in touch with you. Honors Students If you meet FSU’s requirements for honors in the major you can work with us as an honors student.The difference to a regular DIS student (see below) is that you will have your own project, supervised by a committee. The project will result in an honors thesis and will typically form the basis of a publication. This is a major item in your CV, especially if you consider entering graduate or professional (e.g. medical) school.

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