Lemon Lab (the Language and Emotion Lab) is a research group under the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, based in Prague, Czech Republic. It is also closely linked with LABELS (the Laboratory of Behavioral and Linguistic Studies), a shared facility of the Institute of Psychology and the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
The lab is led by Dr. Nikola Paillereau and primarily features young researchers with a background in linguistics and psychology.
We look at both language production and perception in both adults and children, including the earliest production and perception in infants and toddlers. We also explore language-associated cognitive phenomena and processes, most prominently the processing of emotion words. Apart from basic research, we are also interested in language screening as most of our members collaborated on the Dovyko project, the Czech adaptation of the MB-CDI screening tool, and our most current project on bilingualism in infants also strives for applicability of our findings.
We work with both behavioral methods and neuroimaging. We utilize eye-tracking technology, fNIRS, and EEGs. For our upcoming project, we are planning experiments with simultaneous EEG and fNIRS recordings.
For details, see Projects.
We are in close collaboration with researchers at the University of Heidelberg (especially Dr. Torsten Wüstenberg from the Core Facility for Neuroscience of Self-Regulation (CNSR) and Dr. Johannes Gerwien from the Institute for German as a Foreign Language), the Laboratoire Dynamique De Langage at Université de Lyon (Prof. Sophie Kern), and the Institute of Phonetics at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Dr. Naomi Yamaguchi). We welcome other international collaborations – for details, see Call for international collaboration.
