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Department of Psychiatry

BMRI Labs - Psychophysiology laboratory

Head of lab: Dr Georgina Spies (ggiocos@sun.ac.za​)

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The equipment in the Psychophysiology laboratory can be utilised to obtain psychophysiological measurements as an indication of emotional arousal and stress during experiments. The laboratory includes a range of sophisticated equipment (BIOPAC Systems, Inc.; SR Research; g-tec) to record a wide variety of autonomic nervous system functions, including electrocardiography (ECG), electromyography (EMG, including facial EMG), electrodermal activity (EDA), plethysmography (PPG), respiratory effort (RSP), and eye tracking. Housed next door to the psychophysiology laboratory is the Virtual Reality (VR) laboratory, allowing studies incorporating a VR paradigm, combined with measures of autonomic nervous system arousal, to record and quantify various psychophysiological responses in controlled conditions. ​​