Linguistics and English Language

Informatics Forum experiment booths

Eight sound-deadened booths for running perceptual and psycholinguistic experiments

Lab access

Due to the ongoing reorganisation of research facilities in PPLS, it is essential that any new on-campus research study should contact PPLS.studies@ed.ac.uk to confirm that a suitable research room is available.

Each booth is equipped with a dual-boot (Windows and MacOS) Mac-mini and a serial response box. There are also dual action gamepads, microphones, headphones and chinrests available. E-Prime software is available for developing and running experiments.

Available to all PPLS staff, PPLS PhD and PPLS MSc by research, with appropriate induction/training
Charges usually free to postgraduates. Charges apply to funded research projects
Support is.helpline@ed.ac.uk
Location B10 (basement of Informatics Forum)
Priority
  1. Funded PPLS or Informatics research
  2. Other PPLS or Informatics research
Access Swipe card, authorised by Ronny Wiegand