The sound recording studio has a professional sound-proof booth and a control room for acoustic data collection. The booth is equipped with a professional microphone (SHURE), which is connected to a portable high-definition stereo audio recorder (Tascam HD-P2) in the control room.

The perception studio has two perception rooms, each of which is equipped with a PC, a headphone, and a button box. Each PC is installed with softwares such as NESU (Nijmegen Experiment Setup), SuperLab, and E-prime that help researchers to perform speech perception experiments and analyze behavioral data.

Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA, Carsten AG501) is used to investigate kinematic aspects of articulation. EMA consists of microscopic sensor coils (which are attached to a subject’s articulators such as the tongue, the jaw, and the lips) and a control computer.

The eye tracker is a high-tech research device with great speed and precision for measuring eye positions and eye movements in various visual settings such as scene perception and reading. In the field of psycholinguistics, eye movements have been considered to provide significant implications on the language-based cognitive processes: how human-beings perceive and comprehend the sounds, meanings, and structures of language.

Research focuses on the cognitive and neurobiological basis of human communication and how through communication humans can learn about new objects and ideas – including imaginary worlds.