Links to Psycholinguistics Sites & Resources

General & Departmental Information

• Information about the arrangements and procedures for applications for ethical approval (REO website)
• The current Departmental policies and ethical guidelines can be found here
• Information about our eye-tracking laboratories
• Psycholinguistics on Twitter 

Experimental & Statistics Software

• DMDX Homepage (U Arizona)
• E-Prime Homepage
• Linger Homepage (MIT) Note: You will also need to install 'ActiveTcl' for linger to work. Instructions for downloading this for Windows can be found here
• WebExp Experimental Software (U Edinburgh)
• SurveyMonkey: Free online survey software & questionnaire tool
• OR-VIS: Open-source software for conducing online rating studies (U Muenster)
• Praat (U Amsterdam)
• Elan third party resources page
• The R Project for Statistical Computing
• RStudio: A new integrated development environment for R
• Calculating effect sizes (U Colorado)
• Amazon's 'Mechanical Turk' tool
• G* Power (U Düsseldorf), a freeware program that helps you calculate your statistical power
  Reference: Faul, F., Erdfelder, E., Lang, A.-G., & Buchner, A. (2007). *Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behavior Research Methods39, 175-191.
• Revolution R Enterprise software (free academic download)

Online Databases

• International Picture-Naming Project database at CRL-UCSD (provides normed picture stimuli for downloading)
• MRC Psycholinguistic Database (University of Western Australia)
• Word frequencies in written and spoken English based on the British National Corpus (U Lancaster)
• Word frequency lists from the Corpus of Contemporary American English
• SUBTLEX English, Chinese and Dutch word frequencies (word frequencies based on subtitles, U Gent)
• The English Lexicon Project (U Washington at St. Louis), a web-based repository of descriptive and behavioural measures for 40,481 English words and nonwords
• dlexDB is a lexical database for psychological and linguistic research
• Edinburgh Word Association Thesaurus
• University of South Florida Free Association Norms
• British National Corpus
• BYU Corpus of Contemporary American English
• CHILDES database (Carnegie Mellon University)

Other Resources

• The Psychology of Language Page of Links
• More psychology of language links
• Psycholinguistics Resources (U Texas)
• APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue University)
• PhPSyntaxTree - a  program that draws syntactic trees from bracket notation
• Brain Atlas (Harvard)
• Medical Neuroimaging: A Closer Look (provides links to information about different neuroimaging methods)
• CogPrints open archive (providing online access to research papers in psychology, linguistics, and related disciplines)
• Potsdam Mind Research Repository (provides access to peer-reviewed publications along with data and scripts for analyses and figures reported in them)
• Neurosciences on the Internet
• The Language Construction Kit (creates artificial languages)
• BrainConnection.com is a site for various kinds of news about the brain and brain research
• Google Scholar (Search peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations)

Mailing Lists

• The LINGUIST LIST home page
• AMLaP mailing list
• The R mailing list

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