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Experimental research

The School of English has three psycholinguistics labs, two of which house Eyelink 1000+ eye-tracking systems from SR Research.

Undergraduate, masters and PhD students all utilise the labs for psycholinguistic tests, recruiting participants for eye-tracking experiments and more.

To find out how our students use our labs and eye-tracking equipment during their degrees, take a look at some of our research lab pages and student profiles for further insight.

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Language research labs

In our labs, we:

monitor people’s eye movements using eye-tracking, to see how they read, look at scenes and watch movies
apply electrodes to the skin and/or scalp to measure electrodermal activity (EDA) which measures increases in skin conductance that are caused by sweating due to emotionally arousing stimuli when people read
use facial electromyography (EMG) to detect facial muscle movement that indicates emotional responses like frowning or smiling when people read or see images
use electroencephalograms (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERP) that measure the electrical activity of the brain to words when reading or listening