Labs and research facilities

BUCNI provides state-of-the-art magnetic imaging facilities for Birkbeck and UCL staff, and promotes inter-institutional collaboration and innovation.

Based in the School of Psychological Sciences, this research centre aims to improve cognitive and emotional health in women with breast cancer.

CBCD investigates relations between post-natal brain development and changes in perceptual, cognitive and linguistic abilities from birth through childhood and late adulthood.

The Centre unites research spanning the breadth of modelling techniques and frameworks employed in the study of human behaviour.

Our research combines the expertise of researchers in child development, neuroscience and education to improve educational practice throughout life.

The Centre for Neurodiversity at Work undertakes cutting-edge research to enhance and support ethical, impactful organisational practice.

Our centre’s research focuses on the significant issues that people face in their lives, using a range of methodologies.

We research how we control our actions and comprehend and imitate the actions of others.

Our research focuses on the relationship between perceptual and attentional processes and on spoken language comprehension.

Our world-leading Babylab explores how babies learn and develop, particularly during the first two years of life.

We investigate the psychological and neural mechanisms by which we comprehend our own bodies.

We study perception, attention and sensorimotor processes using behavioural and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures.

The BRIDGE Lab is a molecular biology facility for genomic research using DNA and RNA samples.

The BOND lab works to understand the neurocognitive mechanisms that drive variability in the development trajectories of young children.

Through the TABLET project the lab studies how 6 month to 3 year old infants use touchscreen devices and how this influences their cognitive and social development.

We develop computational models of cognitive processes and test them against behavioural and neural data.

Our research explores the basis of cognitive variability.

Our work focuses on human memory and its interactions with other cognitive functions.

We identify the genetic and environmental causes that play a part in making people different.

We employ interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore a wide range of topics in lived experience.

Resources, news of events, regional and international groups and an online discussion group for IPA researchers.

Several research laboratories are located within MERLiN and we house facilities for physiological and behavioural research.

The PATH Lab furthers knowledge of people’s health behaviours, experience of cancer and chronic conditions and issues for survivors, through mixed methods research and intervention development.

We study how argumentation and reasoning work in real life beyond the laboratory.

UnLocke is an innovative maths and science learning activity informed by neuroscience for use in schools.