Name of Lead Faculty/Staff or PI: James Traer
Contact: james-traer@uiowa.edu
Group/Lab Name: Laboratory for Ecological Inference
Website: https://lablei.prod.drupal.uiowa.edu/
Contact: james-traer@uiowa.edu
Group/Lab Name: Laboratory for Ecological Inference
Website: https://lablei.prod.drupal.uiowa.edu/
Research Topic: How do humans make sense of complex audiovisual stimuli in everyday scenes?
Project and Position Details:
The research project seeks to reveal how humans interpret complex real-world sounds by measuring how their interpretations change (e.g., what made that sound? what did that person say?) as the acoustical structure of the sounds is carefully modified be experimenters.
The position requires running behavioral experiments in a laboratory environment. Your primary responsibilities will be posting open slots on the SONA portal, setting up the experiment computer, meeting with participants, and explaining the task.
Experiment design and data analysis will be done by graduate students in the lab, but you will have the opportunity to join research discussions to learn about the details and interpretations of the research project and how it fits into the broader set of psychology research questions.
The position requires running behavioral experiments in a laboratory environment. Your primary responsibilities will be posting open slots on the SONA portal, setting up the experiment computer, meeting with participants, and explaining the task.
Experiment design and data analysis will be done by graduate students in the lab, but you will have the opportunity to join research discussions to learn about the details and interpretations of the research project and how it fits into the broader set of psychology research questions.
Time Commitment: 3--10 hours per week, depending on student schedule
Compensation: Volunteer (Optional registration for URES:3991 or URES:3992 0-credit transcript recognition), Academic Credit (1-4 Semester Hours), To be determined
Start Date: Immediate, Near future
Timeline: Ongoing, potential to be a continuous position
Application Instructions: email james-traer@uiowa.edu