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Linking Labs: Interconnecting Experimental Environments

Tanja Schultz, View ORCID ProfileFelix Putze, Thorsten Fehr, Moritz Meier, View ORCID ProfileCeleste Mason, View ORCID ProfileFlorian Ahrens, View ORCID ProfileManfred Herrmann
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.09.430407
Tanja Schultz
1Cognitive Systems Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
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Felix Putze
1Cognitive Systems Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
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Thorsten Fehr
2Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Germany
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Moritz Meier
1Cognitive Systems Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
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Celeste Mason
1Cognitive Systems Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
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Florian Ahrens
2Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Germany
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Manfred Herrmann
2Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Germany
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Abstract

We introduce the concept of LabLinking: a technology-based interconnection of experimental laboratories across institutions, disciplines, cultures, languages, and time zones - in other words experiments without borders. In particular, we introduce LabLinking levels (LLL), which define the degree of tightness of empirical interconnection between labs. We describe the technological infrastructure in terms of hard- and software required for the respective LLLs and present examples of linked laboratories along with insights about the challenges and benefits. In sum, we argue that linked labs provide a unique platform for a continuous exchange between scientists and experimenters, thereby enabling a time synchronous execution of experiments performed with and by decentralized user and researchers, improving outreach and ease of subject recruitment, allowing to establish new experimental designs and to incorporate a panoply of complementary biosensors, devices, hard- and software solutions.

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  • ↵* tanja.schultz{at}uni-bremen.de

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Linking Labs: Interconnecting Experimental Environments
Tanja Schultz, Felix Putze, Thorsten Fehr, Moritz Meier, Celeste Mason, Florian Ahrens, Manfred Herrmann
bioRxiv 2021.02.09.430407; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.09.430407
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Linking Labs: Interconnecting Experimental Environments
Tanja Schultz, Felix Putze, Thorsten Fehr, Moritz Meier, Celeste Mason, Florian Ahrens, Manfred Herrmann
bioRxiv 2021.02.09.430407; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.09.430407

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