Laboratories

Psycholinguistics Labs for Experimental and Computational Research

The Psycholinguistics Group offers state of the art research facilities for conducting on-line and off-line experiments, corpus-based research and computational modeling.

Eye Tracking Labs

The visual-world paradigm monitors eye-movements in visual scenes which result from spoken linguistic stimuli. To support such experiments, the lab has:

Two Eye-Link 2, head-mounted eye-trackers, from SR Research
Custom developed software for conducting visual word and reading experiments, and performing data analysis
Experiment Builder and Data Viewer software
All necessary software and hardware for preparation of visual and auditory materials
For experiments demanding especially high resolution eye tracking, such as reading, the lab has:
- One Eye-Link 1000, remote eye-tracker (with chin rest), from SR Research. This offers high temporal (1kHz) and spatial (0.25°) resolution, ideal for reading studies.

The remote eye-tracking lab makes available two systems which enable recording of gaze without any physical connection with the participant.

One Tobii 2150 system, with the eye-tracking hardware embedded into the bezel of a 21" LCD Monitor
E-Prime software for experiment design and execution
Six FaceLab 5.0 remote eye-trackers from Seeing Machines are cascaded to track head orientation and eye gaze in up to 270°. This enables us to monitor gaze in more immersive visual environments.

EEG/ERP Lab

The EEG/ERP lab supports neurophysiological investigations of language processing:

Two 64/32 Channel DC BrainAmps, from Brain Products
Analyzer 2 and Recorder software
Active Electrodes
An electromagnetically shielded and sound isolated chamber for conducting experiments
The possibility of running experiments outside the lab, with a laptop based set-up.

Reaction Time Lab

For a range of response-time experiments, the lab has:

Two PCs equipped with serial response button-boxes, microphones
E-Prime software for developing and running various kinds of comprehension and production experiments.

Computing Infrastructure

The group has a network of modern Apple iMac and Mac Pro workstations which are served by Sun file/compute servers. Facilities include:

Access to all major English and German corpora
Software tools for corpus research
Infrastructure for web-based psycholinguistic experiments
Multi-platform software for statistical analysis, graphics, video and audio processing.