Research platforms

Accessible to all teams in a cross-functional manner through the engineering division, the LPNC has two internal platforms and maintains a link with an external platform, the UAR IRMaGe:

Psychology Experimentation Platform (Grenoble site)

The behavioral experimentation platform includes the following two areas:

• Adult Behavioral Platform – composed of about ten experimental booths (individual or collective), equipped with specific material for psychophysics research, including eye-tracking and devices for studying movement and color perception, as well as graphic tablets and speech signal recording.

• VICON (Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Space) – the laboratory has a technical platform for 3D visualization and motion capture, which includes: a room of about 15 m²; a large screen (3 × 2 m) for enhanced immersion and life-size stimulus presentation; 3D-compatible active video projection with multi-projection options; a motion capture system (7-camera Vicon, Tracker software); a workstation with dual professional graphics cards for stimulus generation, optical marker recording, and motion data analysis.

Psychology Experimentation Platform (Chambéry site)

The Chambéry site develops expertise in physiological signal investigation techniques with integrated recordings at the peripheral level (muscular EMG), autonomic level (electrodermal, cardiac, and pulmonary activity), and cerebral level (electroencephalography, evoked potentials). These systems are coupled with various motion capture devices (kinematic analysis) and force sensors (kinetic analysis).

Neuroimaging Platform – UAR IRMaGe

The Research Support Unit (UAR) IRMaGe is an imaging platform serving the CerCoG scientific community, of which the LPNC is a member. IRMaGe provides three facilities for cognitive and clinical neuroscience experiments involving human participants: a 3T MRI facility, a high-density EEG facility, and a NeuroStim facility for non-invasive cortical stimulation.

Engineers from the engineering division can support LPNC researchers and students in designing and conducting cognitive and clinical neuroscience experiments using the IRMaGe platform. This support may apply to all or part of the stages of such a project: ethics, protocol development, training in data acquisition and processing, and dissemination.