Equipment

Equipment of the HUMANISE core facility is available at the Posner lab (room B3.01 on campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels).

Take also a look at our

Lab Facilities page to see which experimental rooms you can use.
Booking page te see how to book rooms and equipment, and at what fee.
Lab Manual to learn how you can use our rooms and standard equipment for your research.

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
Laptops for running your experiments or analyzing them
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.

Humanise satellite labs

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 satellite labs work together with the Humanise staff to create easy access, support and bookings.

Humanise satellite - Neuromodulation Center at UZ Brussel

(this collaboration will become available in the fall of 2025)

Help and gateway for accessing other labs at the VUB

Humanise aims to provide you easy access and guidance to other labs on the human and artificial mind and body as well. Contact us if you need an introduction. The list of these associated labs that collaborate with Humanise is growing:

Human mind:

Brain, Body and Cognition research group (BBCO)
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.