Gorilla Spotlights

Fahad Ahmad

Cognitive Psychology, Memory and Perception
Instructor
Wilfrid Laurier University

This study shows that the picture superiority effect is driven by conceptual-perceptual distinctiveness rather than simple gist–verbatim differences in memory representation.

Will Saban

Cognitive Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Tel Aviv University

Using Gorilla, we demonstrated that the cerebellum plays a domain-general role in processing violations of expectation across cognitive tasks.

Adam John Privitera

Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Education
Lecturer of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong/Wenzhou-Kean University

Behavioral studies on the influence of bilingualism can now more easily recruit larger, more diverse samples of participants.

Adrian Banks

Cognitive Psychology Researcher
LectureSenior Lecturer
University of Surrey

Understanding how we think can help improve it.

Danni Peng-Li

Sensory and Consumer Neuroscience
PhD Candidate
Aarhus University & Chinese Academy of Sciences

My research spans the fields of multisensory perception and food-related decision-making.

Eva Poort

Psycholinguistics
PhD Student (at time of interview)
UCL (at time of interview)

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.

Joseph Devlin

Consumer Neuroscience
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice-dean (Enterprise & Innovation) for the Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL

We ran an experiment in partnership with Audible, that investigated whether people respond differently to emotionally engaging scenes when they are delivered in video or audiobook format.

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.

Kirsty Graham and Cat Hobaiter

Primatology, Comparative Psychology
Research Associate
University of York

We recruited almost 15,000 participants.

Timing Research Forum

Timing and time perception
Open Academic Society
Multi university collaboration

Blursday includes quantitative statistics such as sleep patterns, personality traits, psychological well-being and lockdown indices. The database provides quantitative insights on the effects of lockdown and subjective confinement on time perception.

Angelos Krypotos

Fear, Pain, Avoidance
Assistant Professor
Utrecht University and KU Leuven

I have run multiple experiments in Gorilla. The common thread is that I study individual differences in how individuals learn to avoid pain.

Jen Pink

Psychopathy and offending
PhD student
Swansea University

I work in psychopathy, exploring the relationships between psychopathic traits and offending behaviours

Nicholas R. Harp

Social and Cognitive Psychology, Affective Neuroscience
Graduate Student, Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

I’m a big fan of how version control is built into the site and readily accessible

Elena Benini

Task and language switching
PhD Student
RWTH Aachen University

My research focuses on Action Control and the ways in which we act intentionally to achieve our goals.

Graham Flick

Cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics
PhD Student
New York University

My research examines the ability to produce and understand language, with a focus on how we recognize and combine the meanings of words.

Jade Pickering

Learning and long-term retention of information
Postdoc
University of Southampton

In the past and using in-person methods it would’ve taken me months to get the same sample size!

Madeleine Pownall

Social Psychology
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and PhD researcher
University of Leeds

I have three main strings to my research bow 1) social feminist psychological research on stereotyping and sexism, 2) pedagogical research on student experiences in Higher Education, 3) scholarship on the movement to improve open and reproducible research.

Mircea Zloteanu

Lie Detection, Emotions, Decision-Making, User Behaviour, Investigations
Forensic Psychology Lecturer
Teesside University

We showed that not all “posed” emotions are created equal, and that research needs to consider this for us to have an accurate picture of human emotion recognition.

Xiao Hu

Memory, metacognition, computational modelling
PhD Student
Beijing Normal University

I am interested in whether our decision to offload information is related to our evaluations of ability on the task – a form of metacognition.

Violet Brown

Speech Perception
PhD student in Psychological and Brain Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

Perceptual and cognitive traits that are commonly used in individual differences studies appear to be unrelated to susceptibility to the McGurk effect.

Răzvan Jurchiș

Cognitive psychology (implicit learning, non-conscious knowledge, dual processing); Cognitive-behavior psychotherapy
Post-doctoral researcher
Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania

I study the acquisition and use of nonconscious knowledge with emotional relevance, looking at how unconsciously learned structures can influence affective evaluations of novel stimuli.

Marissa Vander Missen

Cognitive theories of depression, approach and avoidance motivation
Undergraduate
University of Notre Dame

Online research is so valuable, as it gives us researchers the ability to reach and recuit a more diverse group of participants

Jonathan Tsay

Motor Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurorehabilitation
Graduate Student (PhD)
University of California, Berkeley

I work on how the brain controls movement. I use Gorilla to design a battery of cognitive tasks to investigate how the cerebellum contribute to cognition. These tasks span a wide range, from language to visual cognition, from math to attention.

Anqi Hu

Language, word learning, autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
PhD Student
University of Delaware

My work focuses on understanding the individual differences in word learning in typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Max Rollwage

Decision-making, metacognition, computational modelling
PhD Student
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

I am working on the cognitive and neural mechanisms that enable people to revise their beliefs/decisions when presented with new evidence.

Bryony Payne

Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD student
University College London

Our findings … have implications on the design and selection of individuated synthetic voices that are used with assistive communication devices

Matthew Hunt

Linguistics
PhD Student
Queen Mary University of London

I work on a mixture of sociolinguistics and semantics, through the lens of language perception.

Nadine Lavan

Voice Perception Research
Post Doc
UCL

Listeners are as good or even better at recognising the trained identities from … average recordings compared to … other recordings.

Sahira van de Wouw

Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD Candidate
Royal Holloway University of London

I am investigating why people make suboptimal decisions, who is susceptible to suboptimal decision making, and whether it is possible to improve decision making.

Claire Gothreau

Political Behavior; Gender and Politics; Political Psychology
PhD Candidate
Temple University

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

Jessica Massonnié

Psychology
PhD Student
Birkbeck

I am studying the impact of classroom noise on learning in elementary school. More specifically, I am trying to better understand why some children are more sensitive to noise than others.

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.

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

Maša Vujović

Department of Language and Cognition
PhD student
UCL

I study language learning as a process of statistical learning over the language input. I look at this using artificial language learning experiments and computational modelling.

Yanina Prystauka

Psychology of Language
Post Doc
University of Agder, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

We asked whether webcam-based eye tracking provides the necessary granularity to replicate effects, both large and small, that tracker-based eye tracking has shown

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

Fahad Ahmad

Will Saban

Adam John Privitera

Adrian Banks

Danni Peng-Li

Eva Poort

Joseph Devlin

Kyle Jasmin

Kirsty Graham and Cat Hobaiter

Timing Research Forum

Angelos Krypotos

Jen Pink

Nicholas R. Harp

Elena Benini

Graham Flick

Jade Pickering

Madeleine Pownall

Mircea Zloteanu

Xiao Hu

Violet Brown

Răzvan Jurchiș

Marissa Vander Missen

Jonathan Tsay

Anqi Hu

Max Rollwage

Bryony Payne

Matthew Hunt

Nadine Lavan

Sahira van de Wouw

Claire Gothreau

Jessica Massonnié

Alex Jones

Juliet Usher Smith

Maša Vujović

Yanina Prystauka

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