The most recent addition to the CNL Lab is the KIT-Maryland MEG Lab, a high-density Magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility, which opened in Fall 2001. The MEG facility is the result of a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan. The KIT-Maryland MEG Lab is currently one of the best facilities of its kind in North America. The MEG device allows fully non-invasive measurements of neuronal activity in the brain, by recording magnetic fields at 160 different sites around the head. MEG provides exquisite timing resolution and allows for relatively precise localization of many evoked brain responses.

The KIT-Maryland MEG Lab builds upon expertise in a number of areas at the University of Maryland: cognitive neuroscience researchers from the CNL Lab and the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program, biological signal processing researchers from the Institute for Systems Research in the Departments of Biology and Electrical & Computer Engineering, and physics researchers from the Center for Superconducting Research (CSR) in the Department of Physics.

The manager of the KIT-Maryland MEG Lab is Mr. Jeff Walker, (301)-405-0882.

Photo courtesy of the Kazanawa Institute of Technology.