The purpose of the\u00a0Neuroscience of Imagination, Cognition and\u00a0Emotion Research\u00a0(NICER) Lab is to use Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) and other electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques to study human emotion, cognition, and perception. The\u00a0NICER Lab uses 70-channel Neuroscan and 32-channel Brain Vision EEG electrode systems to measure electrical activity across the scalp. \u00a0Analysis of neural activity can provide researchers with valuable information about how and where the brain processes information.<\/p>\n
Current research involves the (i) \u00a0effect of music training in children, (ii) development of brain-computer interface programs, (iii) \u00a0impact of skill-based camps and their effect on the\u00a0quality of life in children and youth, (iv) neurogradients of socio-economic status, (v) neural correlates of prosopagnosia, and (vi) multivariate electrophysiological computational modelling of ADHD.<\/p>\n
Recent\u00a0projects in the NICER Lab include research on how the brain reacts differently to vivid, emotion-laden pictures (e.g. pictures of graphic violence) compared to more neutral images and how the brain processes images of cues that elicit cravings (such as food cues when someone is hungry).<\/p>\n
The NICER Lab research is supervised by Dr. Amedeo D\u2019Angiulli, Professor and Director of the lab, \u00a0who joined the Carleton University faculty in 2007. Dr. D\u2019Angiulli held the Canada Research Chair (Early Intervention\/Child Development) from 2004 to 2007 while he was director of the Centre for Early Education and Development at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. Dr. D\u2019Angiulli also completed his post-doctoral research at the University of British Columbia, doing both a post-graduate fellowship and a teaching fellowship.<\/p>\n