About

VUMC Kennedy Center Core

Overview of Services

The VKC Psychophysiology Lab supports electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), and eye tracking (ET) techniques, which allow researchers to collect more extensive data than would be available using standard behavioral assessments alone, leading to new insights about the neurodevelopmental processes, brain-based markers of risk for adverse developmental outcomes, and additional objective measures of treatment effects. Services are tailored to specific project needs, including consulting on paradigm design, developing an experiment, collecting psychophysiological data, processing data, completing statistical analyses, interpreting data, and assisting in preparing final reports for publication. Additionally, lab personnel train investigators and project staff on practical aspects and theoretical issues related to psychophysiology methods relevant to specific projects. Financial support may be available for small pilot studies to verify  protocol feasibility and acquire pilot data for grant proposals.

Leadership

Laurie Cutting, Ph.D., Core C Director
Dorita Jones, B.S., Psychophysiology Research Coordinator
Tim Stafford, Director of Operations, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

 

Location and hours of operation

Hours Location

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.       
Monday-Friday

OMC 227-229

Links and Resources

https://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vkc/
https://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vkc/iddrc/core_c/ 

Billing Number Activation

 VUMC Investigators with VUMC center numbers:
  All VUMC billing numbers are activated in iLab via a nightly feed from Workday. Grant Worktags are auto-assigned to the PI's lab group. All other funds (Cost Centers, Gift or Program Worktags) must be claimed within the PI's Lab Group.
 
 VU Investigators with VU CoA or POET numbers:
  VU users will manage the VU billing numbers via the webform on the VUMC Office of Research website. 
 
 Vanderbilt Investigators with VA (Veteran Affairs) funding: 
  Contact the VUMC Office of Research at VUMCcores@vumc.org to request access to your VA funding.  All investigators with VA funding are assigned a VA billing number (999999xxxx). The VUMC Office of Research manages VA billing numbers in coordination with the VA Research Administration.