Williams Hall is the on-campus home of the Department of Psychology, housing faculty and student offices, research labs, and classrooms. In addition, the department's off-campus Psychological Services Center, Child Study Center, and Virginia Tech Autism Clinic
provide the foundation for practicum and research training and offer direct clinical services to children, adults, and families.
Additional department resources include two state-of-the-art laboratories dedicated to undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The department maintains a computer lab with 20 Dell Optiplex workstations for technology-assisted teaching and research with neurophysiological and cognitive experimental software, statistical analysis software, and data management programs. This lab includes EEG/Evoked Potential workstations with BioPAC equipment. There is a second dedicated-research computer laboratory including 12 Dell Optiplex workstations with capabilities for running a variety of customized research software and experiments.
Several faculty are affiliated with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (FBRI) in Roanoke, VA, which offers world-class facilities for behavioral research, a premier human functional magnetic resonance imaging facility, and large-scale computational clusters for modeling, simulations, and analyses of large-scale molecular, genomic, biophysical, behavioral, imaging, and population-based data. FBRI also serves as a hub for a worldwide hyperscanning network for interactive, real-time functional brain imaging. Connecting the Institute's three research-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging scanners to multiple sites across the United States and throughout Europe and Asia, this network provides the world's first very-high-throughput functional brain imaging approach to the study of social cognition. This work is enabling new insights not only into how the brains of healthy children and adults make decisions, but also how traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a range of neuropsychiatric disorders affect critical decision-making processes.
