About Us

The Psycholinguistics Lab is based in Room NG.15 of the Samuel Alexander Building at The University of Manchester. Our facilities are available for use by staff and students at The University who wish to carry out psycholinguistic or experimental linguistic work.

Our Lab Director is Vera Hohaus. Our Lab Manager is Paul Stott.

If you'd like to get in touch to discuss ongoing research, or to discuss how we might support you in your own research, please get in touch with The Lab Manager.

Our Facilities

The lab is equipped to carry out a wide range of psycholinguistic and experimental linguistic studies. We have state of the art equipment for lab members to conduct, for instance:

Eye Tracking Studies

Where participants read sentences while we record time-locked eye-movement data.

Electroencephalogram (EEG) Studies

Where participants read sentences while we record time-locked brain-wave activity.

Reaction Time Studies

Where participants make decisions while we record how long it takes them to make those decisions.

Mouse Tracking Studies

Where participants make decisions while we measure the trajectory their mouse takes, and how long it takes them to get to that point, during decision-making.

Reading Time Studies

Where we measure how long it takes participants to read a given string of text.

Other Studies

We may also be able to offer guidance and technical support on experimental paradigms not listed here. Please get in touch with The Lab Manager for more information and to discuss individual needs.

Training Offered

We offer training in:

  • Experimental design.
  • Use of experimental software.
  • Data tidying, wrangling, and analysis in R.
  • Type-setting in LaTeX.
  • Online data collection methods (e.g., Pavlovia, Qualtrics, Prolific).
  • Open Science Tools (e.g., OSF.io, Binder, Docker).

If you're interested in any of these training opportunities, please get in touch with The Lab Manager to discuss your training needs.

Equipment & Software

We have the following hardware and software available:

Hardware:

  • 1x Eyelink 1000 Plus Eyetracker
  • 1x Biosemi EEG Kit
  • 4x Button Response Boxes
  • 1x pre-installed Eyelink 1000 Host PC
  • 1x EEG Host PC
  • PCs for display purposes and for doing reaction time and mouse-tracking work

Software:

  • PsychoPy
  • RStudio
  • MATLAB
  • ActiveView

If you think you might need any equipment or software that is not listed here to run your experiment, please get in touch with The Lab Manager to discuss your needs.