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Are you interested in participating in our research? We are recruiting subjects for our experiments. Please see the information below for details.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR OUR BEHAVIORAL STUDIES.
If you are interested in participating in our studies, please consider the subject criteria. We are looking for individuals who fulfill the following:
- deaf
- strong signer of ASL
- normal to corrected-to-normal vision
- between the ages of 18 and 50
You will be asked to look at ASL signs, gestures, or objects on a computer screen and do things like make decisions about what you see, repeat actions, sign object names, and more. These experiments take about an hour to complete and are conducted at the Center for Mind and Brain in Davis. You will be compensated $10 per hour for your participation.
Contact Mary to schedule a session. Our contact information is as follows:
E-mail*: mlmendoza @ ucdavis.edu
Voice/TTY: 530-297-4427
Please also see flyer below.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR OUR fMRI STUDIES.
If you are interested in participating in our studies, please consider the subject criteria. We are looking for individuals who fulfill the following:
- deaf
- strong signer of ASL
- normal to corrected-to-normal vision
- between the ages of 18 and 50
In addition, volunteers for our fMRI studies must pass a pre-MRI screening before scanning.
While in the scanner, you will be asked to look at signs, gestures, or text and make decisions about what you see and more. These experiments take about 2-4 hours to complete and are conducted in a research-only MRI scanner at the UC Davis Imaging Center in Sacramento. You will be compensated $10 per hour for your participation and may receive a picture of your brain.
MRI is very safe. It does not use ionizing radiation (like X-rays) and is completely non-invasive. Instead, MRI works by using a strong magnetic field and low-power radio waves. The total amount of energy to which a subject is exposed during an MRI scan is much less than that of a typical X-ray.
Functional MRI (fMRI) is a particular type of MRI scan that allows us to obtain pictures of brain activity over time. While these images are being taken, subjects are asked to perform different cognitive "tasks" designed to evoke different kinds of mental activity. Typical tasks in a study might include remembering lists of words, looking at pictures, or listening to sentences. This information can be used to study how the brain is organized for the production of mental operations like learning, memory, and perception.
Contact Mary to schedule a session. Our contact information is as follows:
E-mail*: mlmendoza @ ucdavis.edu
Voice/TTY: 530-297-4427
Please also see flyer below.
* We cannot guarantee confidentiality of any information presented by e-mail.
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