Prospective Students

Grad students

If you are a prospective grad student with an interest in language processing or other fields of cognitive psychology, you definitely should talk to us. FSU offers excellent grad student programs. For further information contact Dr. Radach: radach@psy.fsy.edu

International Visitors

Non US citizens are also welcome to apply to our lab.
For further information contact Dr. Radach: radach@psy.fsy.edu

DIS Opportunities

Do you like cognitive psychology? Don't know yet? Just try it!
Our lab offers you an opportunity to get a behind the scenes view of our ongoing research in cognitive psychology and visual information processing. How do people of older ages deal with reading or interact with websites? What difficulties do children have when they first begin to read? 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 operate modern eye tracking systems, which can be applied to several areas of research!

For further information please contact Ashley Greene: arg04@fsu.edu

Useful Information and 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 me 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
- reviewing journal articles
- creating sentence materials for experiments

- We would like for you to join our lab meetings. We discuss projects/ideas etc., at these meetings. The location of these meetings is at the Florida Center for Reading Research at the City Centre Building. We generally have lab meetings once a week, for an hour and a half. You should make every attempt to make it to these meetings.

- 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 me if you have any further questions and to also let me know if you are still interested in working with us. Please let me know what works best for you.

Please include your full name as well as the best way to get in touch with you.

Thanks,

Lisa




	Home People Recent Publications Recent Presentations & Conferences Presentations Grants and Fellowships Social Life Prospective Students Links Calendar FCRR A Florida State University Center			Prospective Students Grad students If you are a prospective grad student with an interest in language processing or other fields of cognitive psychology, you definitely should talk to us. FSU offers excellent grad student programs. For further information contact Dr. Radach: radach@psy.fsy.edu International Visitors Non US citizens are also welcome to apply to our lab. For further information contact Dr. Radach: radach@psy.fsy.edu DIS Opportunities Do you like cognitive psychology? Don't know yet? Just try it! Our lab offers you an opportunity to get a behind the scenes view of our ongoing research in cognitive psychology and visual information processing. How do people of older ages deal with reading or interact with websites? What difficulties do children have when they first begin to read? 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 operate modern eye tracking systems, which can be applied to several areas of research! For further information please contact Ashley Greene: arg04@fsu.edu Useful Information and 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 me 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 - reviewing journal articles - creating sentence materials for experiments - We would like for you to join our lab meetings. We discuss projects/ideas etc., at these meetings. The location of these meetings is at the Florida Center for Reading Research at the City Centre Building. We generally have lab meetings once a week, for an hour and a half. You should make every attempt to make it to these meetings. - 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 me if you have any further questions and to also let me know if you are still interested in working with us. Please let me know what works best for you. Please include your full name as well as the best way to get in touch with you. Thanks, Lisa