Volunteer For a study

Now recruiting for our new study about individual differences in blindness!


Are you blind from birth or from infancy?

Are you curious about how your brain reorganized to hear, touch or remember better than your sighted friends?

Come take part in a new behavioral and imaging (fMRI) study at Georgetown University Medical Center, and let’s learn together about how the brain can plastically change.

The study takes two sessions of 90 minutes to complete in the (non-invasive) fMRI scanner, and one more session outside the scanner.

You will be compensated at a rate of $50 per hour of fMRI and $25 per hour of non-scanner experiments.


Contact Prof. Ella Striem-Amit for more details:

Email: samplab_recruitment@georgetown.edu,

Office: 202-687-8329 



PARTICIPANTS NEEDED for a study on motor brain plasticity WERE YOU BORN WITHOUT HANDS? DO YOU USE YOUR FEET AS IF THEY ARE HANDS? Are you curious about how your brain reorganized to do this? Come participate in a new behavioral and imaging (fMRI) study at Georgetown University Medical Center. The long-term goal of this research program is to understand how to improve limb prostheses for people who have lost the use of their arms. PARTICIPATION INCLUDES A total of five sessions of 2 hours of fMRI scanning, with added time to explain the experiments before each session. PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE Compensation for your time at a rate of$50 per hour of fMRI and $25 per hour of non-scanner explanation time. Compensation for your travel and stay in Washington, DC. CONTACT US: Dr. Ella Stream-Amit Ella.StriemAmit@georgetown.edu 202-687-4687 FOR MORE ABOUT THERESEARCH: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-grasping-foot-reveals-brain-insights.html

If you were born blind or deaf and reside in the DC metro area,

or, if you were born without hands and reside anywhere in the US or Canada,

or have other similar unique sensory or motor experiences 

and want to help us learn more about how the brain works, 

Please contact us!


Email: samplab_recruitment@georgetown.edu


Our experiments may contain 3-hour long behavioral sessions (questionnaires or computerized tasks), as well as imaging using a (non-invasive) MRI scanner.