Equipment

Equipment

• Millisecond accurate timing of behavioral responses in separate cubicles with PC to investigating mental capacities related to cognitive, social, or affective processes (using Eprime programming and other tools)
• Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate brain activity (more info), including High Defintion tDCS (more info), and 2 mini CTs for tES for remote supervised delivery of tDCS, tACS, tRNS, tPCS or tODCS (more info)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG) for measuring activity in the brain (more info)

• Multifunctional rooms that can be adapted to the needs of your study

  Soon:
  - human sleep: polysomnography, several tests/instruments to measure sleep-related daytime performance

In-depth Expertise & Personalized Support

Our team, consisting of a lab technician, pre-docs, Post-docs and Professors from a wide range of scientific fields, is ready to share specialized knowledge and offer academic consultation tailored to your needs.

Help and gateway for accessing other labs at the VUB

State-of-the-art equipment on the human and artificial mind and body is also located at other labs at the VUB studying similar research aims. Humanise aims to provide you easy access and guidance to these labs. Contact us if you need an introduction. The list of these associated labs that collaborate with Humanise is growing:

Human mind:

• Brussels Center for Language (BCLS)
• Brussels Hospital MRI research lab (MRI)
• Center for Neuroscience (C4N)

Human body:

• Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy ‘Exercise and the Brain in Health & Disease’ (MFYS)
• Human Robotics (BruBotics)

Artificial mind:

• Artificial intelligence (AI lab)
• CAVE (Computer Animated Virtual Environment) facilities to study human and artificial agents in an immersed simulated environment (FARI)

You wish for more but do not find it here, please contact us. 

Users

The core facility has several categories of users: 

1. Academic: Academic user at the VUB or other universities and public academic research institutions. An academic user consists of 1 principal investigator (PI) and their academic team (i.e., the PhDs and post-docs their supervising).
2. Co-investigator: An academic user who donated equipment to be housed in the core facility and is made available for all other users; in return a co-investigator receives for this donated equipment a reduced fee and special rights (including guarantee of use); but remains regular academic user for other equipment.
3. Non-academic user affiliated with a profit or a non-profit organization.

Regulations and Pricing

More details on pricing and regulations for the use of equipment and rooms for research in the core facility and associated fee can be found in our General Regulations and Fee table (141.65 KB) "pdf". 

Our services are continuously updated.