Curriculum 1 – Mind, brain and behavior
TMS (Transcranial magnetic stimultation) laboratory
The TMS laboratory investigates the neural correlates of cognitive functioning in neurologically
healthy individuals and the tactile and visual perception skills in deaf individuals.
- Psychometrics laboratory
- Cognitive electrophysiology laboratory
EEG (Electroencephalogram), evoked potentials, event-related potentials (ERPs)
- “Early childhood” observation laboratories Through the use of a one-way mirror, microphones
and video cameras, the laboratory provides an opportunity to study play behaviour, language and
mother-child interaction during the first two years of life.
- Perception and action laboratory - Perception, Attention and Spatial Cognition laboratory
In this laboratory behavioural experiments are carried out in order to study various cognitive
processes in neurologically healthy individuals. The laboratory has two small rooms with a door
and without windows, each equipped with a table, chair and computer, and a larger space inside of
which there are two cupboards, a desk with two computers and, in the near future, there will be a
sound-proof booth for carrying out further behavioural experiments.
- Laboratory for the study of the development of perception
Experiments are conducted in the laboratory with children in their first year of life and at pre-school
age, aimed at exploring the development of perceptive capacities, such as the recognition of faces or
sensitivity to visual illusions, illusions of attention, such as the orientation of attention in space, and
illusions of cognition, such as the discrimination of ordinal numerical relationships and the spatial
mapping of numerical information. The laboratory is equipped for the presentation of visual stimuli
and the automatic measurement of eye movement.
- Eye movement laboratory 1 and 2
In these laboratories eye movement is used as the ‘online’ measurement of behaviour in reading
tasks, visual perception, attention in neurologically healthy individuals.
- Movement Analysis laboratory – SMART
The Movement Analysis laboratory examines the kinematic parameters of movement to understand
the processes of planning and execution of human movement.
- ODMIR laboratory – Origins and Development of Human Mirror Neuron System
The laboratory seeks to investigate the perceptive and cognitive development of young children,
through the use of behavioural and neuropsychological measurements (EMG [Electromyography],
EEG).
- Laboratory for thePerception of Light and Colour
The Laboratory for the Perception of Light and Colour is a place experimental research is carried
out to study perceptive processes linked to vision, in particular regarding optical illusions,
achromatic clarity, colours, light perception. The small laboratory is black in order to have greater
control over the quantity of light energy on the stimuli. The laboratory is currently equipped with a
theatre spotlight and various monitors which are still being calibrated.
- Neuropsychology laboratory
Curriculum 2 – Cognitive, social and clinical psychology