The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, and the Centre for
Language Sciences in the Division of Linguistics and Philosophy are
proud to announce the arrival of the world’s first MEG system
designed to study cognitive processing in children. MEG is a brain
imaging technique that measures the magnetic fields generated by the
human brain whenever information is being processed. It is non-
contact and non-invasive, so it is an ideal brain imaging technique
to use with children. In 2006, the KIT-Macquarie Brain Research Lab
unveiled the Southern Hemisphere’s first MEG system and the child MEG
system was just recently installed (July 2008). Funding for these
systems comes, in part, from several Australian Research Council
grants. The child MEG system is funded by an ARC Industrial Partner
grant with the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and its industrial
partner, the Yokogawa Electric Corporation. Additional funding for
MEG studies using both systems has been awarded as part of the
HEARing CRC.