Pre Experiment

Ethics in Research

1. Check the privacy rules on this  website.
2. You should submit a data management plan to the Research and Policy Support (REPS) Team (research.data.fgb@vu.nl). You can find more information on this  website.
3. Research has to comply with the code of ethics for research at the FGB (NETHICS), which can be found on this  website.
4. With regards to ethical approval, an umbrella ethics application for standard cognitive experiments in the lab - including online experimenting and VR - has been approved  by the Ethical Review Board (VCWE) in September 2021 and is valid for 5 years. If you are a researcher in the section Cognitive Psychology and your research does not deviate from this protocol , you do not need to request separate approval. In this case, you can use the approved consent form  and information letter  templates and add study-specific information. With regards to the information letter, you can use this document  to add method-specific text.
5. If you are not a researcher working in the section Cognitive Psychology and/or for any deviations from the standard protocol, you can apply for an amendment at the VCWE. You then upload this protocol and explain what you will add/do differently. In case your research deviates hugely you need to get your own research protocol approved by VCWE. To prepare a new ethics application, you can find participant-information-letter-template and informed-consent-templates and a GDPR checklist on this website .

Request a Project Account

To run experiments in the lab and use the lab computers, you should request a project account. This can be requested by sending an email to the Lab Coordinator(c.cengiz@vu.nl) or to bblabs.fgb@vu.nl. Each new project requires a new account. This means that if you want to start a different project, you need to request a new project account. This project account can be used by multiple people working on the same project. With this research account you can log into every computer at the VU Brain & Behaviour lab. You can also log into different PCs at the same time. The steps for requesting an account: 

Send an e-mail to the Lab Coordinator or bblabs.fgb@vu.nl that you would like to have a new project account. You will receive a response mail with a link to a form for filling out information.   Once you filled in the form, send a response that you have filled the form in along with a password of minimum 7 characters.  You will receive a confirmation mail with your username/Short Project Name and your password. You can now use it to log into the PCs. 

Once you have your account, check out the Lab Help folder that everyone has on their desktop by default. Most of the software necessary is also present by default.

If you need anything in particular that is not on there already, contact the Lab Coordinator or anyone else from the Lab Team. Do this in a timely manner!