Gorilla for...

Language Research

Run high-quality language experiments online — from lexical decision tasks to bilingual advantage studies — with precise timing, diverse samples, and no coding. Gorilla puts powerful language and linguistics research within easy reach.

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Making good science easy for 30,000+ researchers at 1,000+ Universities

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How Gorilla supports language researchers

Language researchers often need large linguistically relevant samples, precise control over auditory and visual stimuli and precision reaction times that match lab standards.

With Gorilla, research can build lexical decision tasks, speech production and comprehension tasks all without coding.

Gorilla provides the technical fidelity and flexibility needed to study language at scale.

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Experimental Control

Randomisation, counterbalancing, branching, and condition management

Timing Accuracy

Validated stimulus timing and millisecond reaction-time recording

Stimuli Flexibility

Present images, text, audio, video, or custom HTML

Scalable Recruitment

Integrations with Prolific, CloudResearch, and MTurk for large, diverse samples

Example Language Tasks

Build your own tasks or clone and adapt existing samples

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Selected Publications

No compromises on ethics, privacy, security or compliance

Gorilla is approved by 300+ universities worldwide

Hosted in the EU

Penetration Tested

Two-factor Authentication (2FA)

Conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. VPAT available.

Fully GDPR and BPS (The British Psychological Society) compliant

Easy application to your Internal Review Board (IRB) or Ethics Committee

Get Started For Free

Shortcut the weeks and months to collect high-quality data. Get on-demand support to build, preview and pre-test your experiment with our free plan.

Choose from dozens of sample tasks to clone and customise for replication. Access free, 5-minute tutorials and a library of bite-size resources.

When you’re satisfied you can measure what you want to measure, choose from academia-friendly pricing tiers, to host and start collecting data.

With group savings - great for labs and departments.

Making Good Science Easy For 30,000+ Academic Researchers

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