Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) is based at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It started as a small research group in 2004, and rapidly became one of the leading research laboratories in Romanian cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Our research focuses on emotion and cognition, aim

ing to integrate psychological and biological perspectives in order to understand emotional resilience and vulnerability. Therefore, we are using a wide array of methods, from genotyping and neuroendocrine assays to autonomic psychophysiology and optical neuroimaging, in studies on healthy volunteers and patients with emotional disorders. CNL has a multidisciplinary team that includes cognitive psychologists and clinical psychologists, medical doctors and biologists, as well as an expanding network of international collaborations that includes researchers from cognitive science, behavior genetics and neuroeconomics. Most of the current lab members started their activity in the CNL during their undergraduate studies and continued their work in the lab throughout their masters and PhD studies. CNL is committed to the interdisciplinary training of psychology students and the development of the Romanian research community in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.