The SIGMA Lab is an interdisciplinary cognitive science laboratory devoted to investigating rapid, real-time decision making for information gathering. Members of the lab are pursuing research problems associated with attention and gaze control, real-world scene perception, object and face recognition, spatial navigation, language comprehension and production, and the integration of vision, language, and action in complex environments. The methods employed by the laboratory include psychophysical and behavioral experiments in both humans and insects, formal mathematical modeling and computer simulation, and the development of software and hardware systems for integrated sequential activities in machines.

SIGMA Lab was originally established in 1998 by generous funding from the National Science Foundation through the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) program. Since then, SIGMA Lab funding has expanded to include association with an Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program (details here), as well as research funding to lab members from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the US Army Research Office.

SIGMA Lab resides on the third floor of Giltner Hall on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University.

SIGMA Lab Members: SIGMA Lab currently includes faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in Psychology, Zoology, Computer Science and Engineering, and Linguistics.

Research Links

• Objectives
• Projects
• Facilities
• Research Training

Other Relevant Links

• MSU Cognitive Science Program
• MSU NSF/IGERT Training Program

John Henderson
Department of Psychology
john@eyelab.msu.edu

Fred Dyer
Department of Zoology
fcdyer@pilot.msu.edu