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This person is either David Hubel or Torsten Wiesel and has an anesthetized cat with it's eyes pointed toward this screen. An electrode is placed in the occipital cortex in the first part of the neocortex that receives visual information from the eyes via the thalamus. This electrode picks up the electrical signal of an action potential, which signifies the information that a particular neuron in this area is passing on to other neurons.

Here are more cool videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQAtkxn3tY&feature=related

"The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is a unit within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. BRP develops digital recording  equipment, computer software, and algorithms that are used by scientists around the world to study animal communication and to monitor the health of wildlife populations. BRP is also pioneering new techniques for censusing and tracking wildlife with arrays of microphones placed in natural environments around the globe."

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/

What are they up to in this lab? What is the science of sound? Why is it important to study sounds? How does this relate to SP?

Also see - http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/

What does a lab in psychophysics look like? What is Matlab (see General implementation issues at the bottom of her page)? Can you find other labs on the interent that provide details about their lab?

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/index.php?location=research&sub=labsetups

Also see Snapshots from the Read's lab:

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/index.php?location=research&sub=pictures

This section of my website arose indirectly from my participation in the MP-scientist pairing scheme. I was asking my MP, Dave Anderson, what he was interested in getting out of his visit to my lab, in order to plan a schedule for him. He said he was mainly interested in understanding what a scientist would do all day -- "I mean, not trying to be funny, but for all I know you just sit around waiting for a bright idea." So I thought people might find it interesting if I tried to give an idea of how I actually spend my time. Here are a few examples of things I might do during a day. I wouldn't actually get anything like all of these done in a single day! -- some of them would take several hours just on their own.

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/index.php?location=misc&sub=daylife