TRCNLabs

Trevor Robbins Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratories is part of the Common Experimental Area at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. We are based in the Main Psychology Building where we support various adult human-participant testing. 

The space opened in 2024 and was named after Professor Trevor Robbins (CBE FRS FMedSci), former Head of the Department of Psychology, to commemorate his academic legacy of promoting inter-school collaboration and translational science. TRCNLabs aims to support communal research culture in academia.

Whether you are a PI, ECR, postgraduate, or an undergraduate member of the Department, we encourage you to use the TRCNLabs services. From SONA and Gorilla management, to finding spaces for your data collection, to showcasing how to handle experimental kit!

TRCNLabs are open to any research project involving human participants. Rooms are available for designs spanning from behavioural procedures, to neurovisualisation techniques such as EEG (electroencephalography), to VR exploration. You can find more details about the available equipment through the navigation menu on the left. You are also welcome to donate or contribute financially to any more psychophysiological equipment.

For a tour of the facilities or to integrate your project into TRCNLabs schedule, please contact the coordinating lab technician - Nina (trcnlabs@psychol.cam.ac.uk; cc ns963@cam.ac.uk).

Please, keep in mind that as the space is shared between many users, your projects can only be integrated with enough notice! You are advised to get in touch about using TRCNLabs at least 2 months in advance of your planned data collection. For new projects the minimum notice period is 4 weeks, while for recurring projects (second round of the same data collection, etc.) the minimum notice period is 2 weeks.

Since its opening in 2024, Common Experimental Area (including TRCNLabs and Babylab) has collaborated with:

*Adaptive Brain Lab (Zoe Kourtzi PI);

Brain, Language & Bilingualism Lab (Mirjana Bozic PI);

Babylab (Mark Johnson & Sarah Lloyd-Fox PIs);

*Body, Mind and Behaviour Lab (Simone Schnall PI);

Cognition and Motivated Behaviour Lab (Lucy Cheke PI);

Computational Cognition Lab (Paul Bays PI);

Consciousness and Cognition Lab (Tristan Bekinschtein PI);

Emotional Cognition Lab (Deborah Talmi PI);

Memory Lab (Jon Simons PI);

Memories in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Lab (Amy Milton PI);

*Political Psychology Lab (Lee de-Wit PI);

Prediction and Learning Lab (Becky Lawson PI);

Visual Cognition Lab (Greg Davis PI).

*supporting projects outside CEA, like Cambridge Festival, providing electronic resources, supporting teaching, or finding alternative testing spaces.

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For any queries regarding TRCNLabs, including equipment and room requests, please contact the Chief Lab Technician Nina via trcnlabs@psychol.cam.ac.uk (cc ns963@cam.ac.uk).