Lab Facilities at SEBAC

Running Room

Running room with 11 experimental chambers. Each chamber contains its own microprocessor based controller and is networked to the Micro-VAX computer in the main computer room. The 2 green boards that make up the controller can be seen attached to the rear of each chamber.

Seminar Room

The Seminar/Presentation room shown in mid-project status. This area is used to develop theories, present findings, and organize research.

Work Room

The work room has various computer systems and display apparatus. This picture shows a laser printer, a PC, a Mac, a film recorder, a plotter, and some video editing equipment. On the wall results from various experiments are displayed.

Work Room

Another angle on the work room. Here more of the printers can be seen as well as a three monitor macintosh system. Experiment results use up virtually every accessible wall.

Computer Room

To the right are the Micro-VAX computers that currently run and analyze the experiments. The SEBAC mail server is the small box under the table. Various other file servers and printers are scattered around the room.

Computer Room

Here you can see various consoles and a laser printer. A PDP-11 processor can be seen (note the 8" floppy disks). This is our old experiment system and is in semi-retirement.

Bill's Office

The control center of the lab. Doubles as the seminar room (when viewed from the other direction).

Betty's Office

Where the work gets done. All the correspondence and manuscripts pass through here. A close inspection will show not only a chihuahua doll collection, but Gorby (on the lower left) catching some Z's in her chihuahua nest.

Don's Office

The analysis center. The experiment controller first blinked to life on the table shown to the left. Note the chihuahua nest at the lower left (sans Gorby).

Student Office

One of the student work areas.

Student Office

Another angle showing the second desk in one of the student work areas.

Student Office

This office is a bit smaller, but adjoins the running room for convenient access.

Lounge

Here is the lounge and relaxation area. Note that even in the lounge we have liberal dosages of experimental results and graphical data representations. Casual discussions are best when kept close to the empirical data.

Student Operant Lab

Students are given the opportunity to "shape" their own pigeons to engage in a number of arbitrary behaviors. The students prove for themselves that what an animal (or person) does is the result of rewards for that behavior.

Shop

The construction area for most of the computer equipment and experimental chambers used in the lab.

Equine Research Facility

The Equine Research Facility is just getting set up.

Last Updated : January 3, 2007