Welcome to the BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR LABORATORY
What is the BBL?
Opened on March 12th 2009, the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory (BBL) is a robust and multimodal interfaculty platform to perform data acquisition for neuroscience studies.
It is the first laboratory of its kind to combine an extraordinarily large diversity of methodologies and disciplines allowing scientists to carry out research into cognition, emotion, consciousness, sleep and dreams, both in health and in diseases.
The BBL brings together a wide range of cutting-edge techniques from neuroscience and psychophysiology to measure brain activity, as well as peripheral body changes and complex motor or social behaviour, in experimentally controlled conditions.
The laboratory is divided into modules/rooms that have their own specificity (equipment, measurements, etc…) and each of them can be booked individually for data acquisition.
Lab modules:
- MRI
- EEG
- Parallel Testing Room
- Visual Lab
- Behavioural Room
- Psycho-physiology Room
- Sleep Lab
- Virtual Reality Room
Who is working at BBL?
The BBL is managed by the CISA (Swiss Center of Affective Sciences) at the University of Geneva and the CIBM (Centre for Biomedical Imaging) who cofounded the upgrade of the MRI in 2022.
The center also brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers and technicians from medicine, psychology, informatics, biology, and many other fields to maintain the platform and assist researchers.
Where is it located?
The lab is in the Champel district inside the University of Medicine (CMU). This location and the proximity to UniMail, the hospital (HUG) and HEdS make recruitment easy. The train station nearby (Champel Gare) makes the lab very accessible for participants and external researchers. A guide is available to help you find the lab once you reached the CMU.
How can I take part in an experiment at BBL?
If you want to be recruited as a participant, you can find announcements here or flyers at the main door of the lab.
If you are interested in conducting an experiment at the BBL, please contact the Lab Manager.
For more information about the BBL, please contact the Lab Manager.