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Lab facilities in Psycholinguistics

The computational psycholinguistics groups offers state of the art research facilities for conducting on-line and off-line experiments, corpus-based research and computational modelling.

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

  • Two "Eye-Link 1" and one "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 software
  • All necessary facilitied of preparation of visual and auditory materials

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

  • One Tobii 2150 eye-tracker, with the eye-tracking hardware embedded into the bezel of a 21" LCD Monitor. E-Prime software for experiment design and execution.
  • Six faceLab remote eye-trackers, which can be cascaded to track head orientation and eye gaze in up to 270°.

Eye-tracking Lab: Reading
For reading experiments requiring the highest-possible resolution the lab uses Generation 6.2 Dual-Purkinje eye-tracker.

DPI

Reaction-time Lab
For a range of response-time experiments, the lab has two PCs equipped with serial response button-boxes, microphones, and E-Prime software for developing and running various forms of comprehension and production experiments.

Cognitive Robotics Lab

To further support computational modeling of situated and embodied language processing, we also have recently set up a lab equipped with two robots, dedicated wireless lan, and software to support speech recognition and robot vision.

Computing infrastructure
The group has a network of modern Apple (G4 and G5) 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