School Facilities
The School of Experimental Psychology has a wide range of facilities available.
Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRIC)
This state-of-the-art research and imaging centre opened in February 2011. As a result of this unique collaboration between the University and the NHS people in Bristol and the South West are benefiting from the latest, high-quality, cutting-edge research being conducted locally. CRIC facilities include a Siemens 3Tesla Magneton Skyra MRI scanner, funded by the Wolfson Foundation, a two-room sleep laboratory and four clinical investigation suites alongside a laboratory, meeting rooms, and access to high performance computing facilities. Further information
Nutrition and Behaviour Unit (NBU)
The Nutrition and Behaviour Unit (NBU) is a research group that conducts research studies exploring the psychological processes underlying food choice and dietary behaviour. The NBU lab space consists of a reception area, large research kitchen, phlebotomy room, workshop, and a number of rooms for testing single and large groups of participants.
Tobacco and Alcohol Group (TARG)
TARG conduct research into the psychological and biological factors underlying health behaviours, they have a number of rooms for testing small groups of participants. TARG specialist labs include the 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation (state anxiety induction) and eye tracking labs.
Bristol Vision Institute Movement Lab
The BVI Movement Lab is a facility in which researchers study the role of vision in the control of movement (e.g. reaching and grasping movements, locomotion). By using an array of projectors and virtual reality equipment to control the visual environment, they can measure almost any kind of movement using optical motion capture.
Electroencephalography (EEG) Lab
The EEG lab is home to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers investigating a wide range of brain functions. Visual attention, memory, language, and audiovisual processing have been studied in younger adults, older adults and Alzheimer's disease patients. EEG allows us to observe real time electrical activity in the brain that arises as millions of neurons fire in response to external stimuli and internal cognitive processes.
Centre for Language and Cognition (CLC)
The Centre for Language and Cognition (CLC) at Bristol is dedicated to the study of fundamental questions about language processing and cognition more generally. The group has a state-of-the-art speech laboratory, which includes a sound-proof booth alongside with high-quality recording equipment.
Bristol Cognitive Development Centre (BCDC)
The Bristol Cognitive Development Centre (BCDC) opened in 2001 and is a dedicated developmental psychology testing centre within the School of Experimental Psychology. BCDC is a dedicated testing facility researching specific aspects of child development with the aim is to explore various aspects of child development from infancy, through to adulthood.
