The UMass Eyetracking Lab (http://websites.umass.edu/eyelab/) is looking for one or two new Undergrad Research Assistants for the Fall 2016 term.  Interested students should contact Professor Adrian Staub at astaub@psych.umass.edu.  Students can receive course credit in either Psychology or Linguistics.

RAs in the Eyetracking Lab help to run experiments in which readers’ eye movements are monitored, as a way to understand various aspects of language comprehension, including word recognition and syntactic parsing.  Some experiments also use eye movements to investigate spoken language comprehension.

Background in linguistics and/or cognitive psychology is helpful.  Interest in these topics is required.  The typical commitment is for 9 hrs/week, including a lab meeting.