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The Centre hosts visitors for the short- or long-term and has various national and international collaborators.<\/p>\n<h2>Areas of Focus<\/h2>\n<div class=\"columns\"><div class=\"columns__two\"><h3>Aviation Psychology<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Night-vision-goggle symbology<\/li>\n<li>Situational awareness<\/li>\n<li>Helmet mounted display symbologies<\/li>\n<li>Object-based attentional layers in helmet mounted displays<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive factors in aging and flight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Modelling Complex Tasks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SGOMS models for sociotechnical systems<\/li>\n<li>ACT-R models of human cognition<\/li>\n<li>Holographic models of memory<\/li>\n<li>Problem solving using visual models<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns__two\"><h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Acquisition of numeracy<\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s representational development<\/li>\n<li>Early educational experiences<\/li>\n<li>Early French Immersion<\/li>\n<li>Role of cognitive development in learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Speech and Language<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Electrophysical correlates of affect perception based on prosodic cues<\/li>\n<li>Hearing aid applications in preschoolers<\/li>\n<li>Brain-based modelling of language processes<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<h2>Facilities<\/h2>\n<p>Facilities include micro-computer testing laboratories, speech synthesis equipment, equipment for measuring brain activation (i.e., event-related potentials), eye-movement monitoring systems, and low fidelity simulators for driving, fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft.<\/p>\n<h2>Funding Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NSERC<\/li>\n<li>SSHRC<\/li>\n<li>DRDC Canada<\/li>\n<li>Ontario Centres for Excellence<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Foundation for Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Language and Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Research Network<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Council on Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advancing the study of language, cognition and human performance Goals of the Centre: Facilitates interactions between researchers at Carleton and those in the high-tech,government, and educational communities in Ottawa Supports research presentations in the form of colloquia Provides students with excellent training in research on applied cognition Provides funding for research projects Provides sabbatical visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"pg-full.php","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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