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Spatial Perception and Memory Lab John P. Spencer, Principal Investigator |
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Spatial Perception and Memory Lab John P. Spencer, Principal Investigator |
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SPAM Lab
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Our lab is located in Seashore Hall on the campus of the University of Iowa. This newly remodeled space provides a welcoming environment for parents and children as well as a great place to chat...and get some work done. Seashore Hall and Spence Laboratories are located near the heart of downtown Iowa City. Coffee shops, restaurants, and watering holes are just steps away... |
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The SPAM Lab consists of a suite of testing rooms off a large entry area and work room. In our main room we have a place for parents and siblings to wait and play while we are running studies.
We have two testing rooms that are currently being used for adult studies. Adult subjects participate in a computer version of a Change Detection task and a Dimensional Change Card Sort task (DCCS task) that are being developed for future fMRI studies. When we aren't running adults one of our testing rooms also doubles as a robot testing room where we can test decision making based on input, among many other things, with our robots. Finally, we have an infant testing room set up for habituation and preferential looking paradigms. We are currently using this room to study how infants form working memories for object features. |
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CHILD'S Facility
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Above: Here is our waiting room, where parents and
siblings can sit and play.
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Above: This is our work area were graduate students
can run simulations and work on experiments.
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Above: This is our experiment room where we run
our NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) experiment. Subjects participate
in our Change Detection and Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) tasks
on our touch screen T.V.
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