Institute for Language Sciences Labs

Zep2

Visual World

The purpose of this experiment is to record participant’s eye-movements while he/she is listening to a spoken utterance and looking at a screen displaying a semi-realistic scene. For each trial a scene is displayed and an utterance relating to the scene is played. Participant’s task is to carefully look and listen. Self-paced. Output: Eye-Tracking data as…

Read more

How to properly run a ZEP experiment in the lab

This how-to guides you through a test session using ZEP at the ILS Labs. It assumes you have completely prepared your experiment – including the replacement of the example stimuli with your own. Step 1 and 2 should only be done when running your experiment for the first time. Step 3 to 7 should be repeated…

Read more

How to send markers/triggers from ZEP (EEG)

Introduction Using markers during electroencephalography (EEG) helps to identify specific events in your data. When analyzing data the markers become crucial for synchronizing epochs or identify responses. It is of paramount importance that these markers are very precise; any jitter reduces the quality of your data. The accuracy of markers is of less importance. Markers…

Read more

Understanding (Research) Data Storage in the ILS Labs

Click here for a short overview of this article   In the ILS Labs you can put your data in various places. These places can essentially be divided into two categories: network storage and local temporary storage. This how-to describes the differences between these two locations, and helps you figure out where to store your…

Read more

ZEP Tutorial for Windows

Tutorial ZEP – Adapt an existing template experiment (under Windows) In this tutorial, you will create a ZEP experiment that runs a grammaticality judgment task. This document will guide you to do this step by step, working from an existing template experiment. The template experiment that we will use as the base is a visual…

Read more