Sunway Psychology Laboratories
Overview
Sunway Psychology laboratories are located on Level 3 of the Sunway University New Building. There are 2 Psychology laboratories (Human Developmental Lab and Human Performance Lab) and 8 observation rooms.
Human Performance Lab
Location: Level 3
The Human Performance Lab houses two EEG systems (EGI EEG 128 channel, CGX Dry EEG headset – one 64 and two 32 channel), one Tobii TX300 Eye Tracker, and 6 computers equipped with MATLAB, Coglab, E-PRIME, and TOBII studio software that are used for various psychological research.
EGI EEG system
Dry EEG Headset
Function: The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a wearable system to record the electrical activity of the brain. It is a non-invasive method that places electrodes along the scalp to detect brain activity.
Tobii TX300 Eyetracker
Function: The eye tracker uses infrared light sensors that enables the machine to determine what the user is looking at in real-time. The technology converts eye movements into data that contains information such as gaze point, pupil position and size, and gaze vector.
Human Developmental Lab
Location: Level 3
The Human Developmental Lab also known as Sunway Baby Lab houses a looking time lab, observation playroom, and 6 computers equipped with Coglab, EPRIME, and SPSS software that are used for various psychological research.
To know more about studies available at Sunway Baby Lab, please click here.
Looking Time Lab
Function: The looking time lab uses habituation and preferential looking method to test whether infants can tell the difference between two stimuli (either sounds or images). Using an infant’s ability to pay attention to new and interesting things, infants’ attention to the stimulus presented is recorded. Changes in attention are used as a tool to study the learning and thinking of young infants.
Observation Playroom
Function: The observation play room is used for parent interviews, infant/child assessments, and behavior observation studies with young children to assess children's development and also for child psychological studies.
Computerised Experiments
Staff and students used the computers in both human performance and human developmental labs for various computerized experiments for their research projects.
Observation Room
Location: Level 3
There are 7 observation rooms and one control room that psychology students and staff use for counseling, interviews, and experiments. All observation rooms are equipped with CCTV cameras for recording purposes.
