Since 2001 the Department of Linguistics has housed the KIT-Maryland MEG Lab, a high-density Magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility resulting from a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan. 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 manager of the MEG lab is David Younathan, who can be reached by email at danyol at umd dot edu or by office phone: (301) 405-0882. The UMD MEG blog provides recent updates for members of the local user community.