We've interviewed Gorilla users about their fascinating research, and how they think online research will change their fields. Find out more below.

Claire Gothreau

Gender and Politics

PhD candidate

Temple University

"Sexist events spur political engagement, particularly when paired with high levels of feminist identity development."

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Kyle Jasmin

Cognitive Neuroscience Researcher

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow

Birkbeck University of London

"People with unreliable pitch perception place less weight on pitch when perceiving speech, and more weight on a dimension they perceive reliably – in this case, duration."

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Kirsty Graham

Primatology, Comparative Psychology

Research Associate

University of York

Cat Hobaiter

Primatology, Comparative Psychology

Lecturer

University of St Andrews

"We used Gorilla.sc to test whether human participants 'understand' chimpanzee and bonobo gestures."

"We recruited almost 15,000 participants."

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Eva Poort

Psycholinguistics

PhD student (post-viva)

University College London

"The type of task you use influences the size of two well-known effects in the bilingual literature, the cognate facilitation effect and the interlingual homograph inhibition effect."

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Adrian Banks

Cognitive Psychology Researcher

Senior Lecturer

University of Surrey

"Understanding how we think can help improve it."

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Juliet Usher-Smith

Cancer and Cardiovascular disease prevention

Clinical Senior Research Associate (and GP)

The Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge

"We believe this is the first study to demonstrate change in risk conviction following provision of risk information."

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Maša Vujović

Language and Cognition

PhD student

UCL

"I am interested in whether learners are sensitive to these probabilistic patterns in sound and meaning in the language they are learning, and whether the ability to pick up on these patterns helps learners generalize."

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Alex Jones

Face perception, evolutionary psychology, computational modelling

Lecturer

Swansea University

"People unconsciously associate someone who looks Extraverted with words describing that trait. Using Gorilla, we are now expanding these studies to explain the effect using clinical populations.”

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