Call for contributions: PsychLing-101 (open repository of psycholinguistic datasets)
Taisiia Tikhomirova
Dear colleagues,
We are a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Milano-Bicocca, collaborating on a research initiative to build shared infrastructure for psycholinguistic research.
We would like to invite contributions to PsychLing-101, a community-driven repository that collects psycholinguistic datasets in a unified format for both traditional analyses and evaluation of large language models.
Project overview
PsychLing-101 aims to build a curated corpus of psycholinguistic datasets stored in a standardized structure. The goal is to make datasets easier to find, reuse, and compare across studies, and to support more reproducible research in psycholinguistics and cognitive science.
The repository covers a broad range of psycholinguistic data types, including norming studies, lexical decision tasks, sentence processing experiments, semantic ratings, and behavioral or physiological measures such as eye-tracking and neuroimaging.
To build a broad and useful resource, we welcome contributions from researchers across the field, including both large-scale datasets and smaller curated studies.
Repository and documentation:
https://github.com/Data-X01/PsychLing-101
Ways to contribute
Researchers can contribute in several ways:
• Submit a dataset following the instructions in the repository README
• Curate an existing study from the list in the CONTRIBUTING file
• Suggest a dataset or study by opening an issue in the repository
Outcome for contributors
All dataset contributors will be included as co-authors on an overview paper describing the repository and the standardized corpus.
Questions
For questions or assistance, please open a GitHub issue or contact:
psychl...@gmail.com
If you think this initiative may be of interest to colleagues or students, we would greatly appreciate you sharing it within your networks.
Best wishes,Taisiia Tikhomirova & Dirk Wulff
(on behalf of the PsychLing-101 team)