About
The Center for Reading Research is a research group connected to the Department of Experimental Psychology of Ghent University, directed by Marc Brysbaert.
It is centered on three research topics:
As part of our research, we have made tools which you may find helpful for your own research. They are
- Word frequency measures based on subtitles
- Word prevalence norms for Dutch and English
- Various word ratings for Dutch, English, and Spanish
- Semantic vectors for Dutch, English, and Italian
- Word processing times in Dutch and English (megastudies, crowdsourcing)
- Vocabulary tests for university students (Lextale-Fr, Lextale-Esp, LexITA, Dutch one-minute word reading test, Dutch multiple choice vocabulary test, Flamingo test)
- Picture stimuli (Verma & Brysbaert, Multipic)
- The Dutch Author Recognition Test
- Spelling dictation tests for English and Dutch
- A nonword generator (Wuggy)
- A list of all the megastudies published (with links to the data)
- Papers on how to determine the number of participants you need to test for properly powered studies (ANOVAs, mixed effects models)