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Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development
Research @ Newcastle University

This is the online home of resources the LEAD research group at Newcastle University. We also do lots more, and are affiliated with Newcastle's LingLab. Click below to learn more about the research done at LEAD, or see our current experiments.

Current Experiments

Below are some experiments that you can try - most are in 'Demo' mode, meaning they are not currently collecting data. If data collection is ongoing, this will be clearly marked on a consent page. For other experiments data collection may have closed, and this is only a demo version.

Because it's generally better for participants in research not to know much about the research itself, we only post information about results and research aims here if the research is completed and has been published. If you're curious about the aims of an experiment, there are debriefs at the end of each task that will explain things a bit more.

DEMO

Word guessing

Guess the meanings of non-English words and try to get a high score.

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LIVE

Seeing Music

Help the alien Oram understand human music.

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DEMO

Word Memory

Try your best to remember a list of words.

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DEMO

Visit Eurybia

You've crashlanded on an alien planet - can you leave a story that will help the next explorer survive?

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DEMO

Stroop & ALL

Do the classic Stroop task, with some light artificial language learning (ALL) in between.

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DEMO

Learn Ferro

Reproduce alien symbols - make sure to catch them before they fade!

Results published here.

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