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National Geographic reporter Myrthe Prins plays guinea pig at ILS Labs

‘Soe-gi-ta-geu-bu-ti-to-ba-meu…, for ten minutes now I have been listening to a robotic voice, droning on meaningless syllables without intonation or emotion.’

National Geographic reporter Myrthe Prins visited the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) Labs, part of the Centre for Digital Humanities. Guided by PhD candidate and psycholinguistics researcher Iris van der Wulp, Prins participated in a series of experiments measuring her working memory, vocabulary, sense of rhythm, and ability to learn a non-existent language – all while wearing a EEG cap with dozens of electrodes to monitor her brainwave activity.

Read the National Geopgraphic article (in Dutch, one free session).

Curious whether the ILS Labs could support your research? Or, like Prins, would you like to contribute to science as a participant? Visit the ILS Labs website for more info.