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.

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.