School of Psychology virtual tours

How to use the virtual tour

Our virtual tours work in a similar way to Google Maps. You will see some icons on the tours to help you with your journey through our Faculty.

The Play button will open a brief snippet of the areas you can navigate on your tour.

Use the Explore 3D Space button to switch to a first-person view of the tour.

The View Floor Plan button will show you a birds-eye view of the floor you're touring. Use it to get an overview of the floor and hop to specific areas.

The Floor Selector button allows you to move between different floors on your tour.

While viewing a tour, you can select several coloured icons to help you interact with the tour and get more information.

The blue dot icon will show you written information about the area that you're currently in.

The red dot icon will show you a video.

The purple dot icon will allow you to navigate between the different buildings that make up the tour.

The green dot icon will allow you to hop over to different parts of the tour.

In the £26 million Tom Reilly Building, you’ll find psychology students recording brain activity with EEG and fNIRS and using virtual reality systems and a driving simulator to test out simulated activities.

Plus psychology students and research staff take advantage of:

  • Psychophysiology Lab: eye tracking and facial recognition software, game consoles, fNIR system (which monitors changes in cortical oxygenation and deoxygenation in the brain), GSR transducer sets, electro-oculogram amplifier (to record eye movements), evoked response equipment

  • Sensory and Affective Neuroscience Lab: Medoc Pathway Thermal Sensory Analyser used in pain studies, a Robotic Tactile Stimulator for research into affective touch, an olfactometer for smell research, microneurography capabilities used to record and microstimulate single sensory nerves innervating the skin

  • Driving simulator: driver console with steering wheel, brake, clutch and accelerator pedals, and a tester console with programming monitor

  • Appetite Research Lab: fully equipped food preparation kitchen and testing area

  • Human Performance Testing Lab: a dedicated general purpose laboratory for physiological measurements with associated software (EMG, EEG, ECG, GSR, blood flow, air flow, breathing rate, Chart 4.0 Analysis)