GenLab is home to a research group located at the Department of Psychology of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
We are a young group of individuals whose main goal is to disentangle the cognitive pathways that govern the process of grammatical gender across languages and speakers. By combining insights from neurolinguistics, developmental and social psychology, linguistics, and sociolinguistics, we aim to better understand one of the most challenging grammatical features in research and foreign language learning.
We are also devoted to other topics, mainly, Emotion and grammar, as well as Negation and grammar.
Our research primarily relies on electroencephalography, and we coordinate a laboratory fully equipped with cutting-edge EEG technology.
We are committed to **open science**. Our studies are published in open-access journals. All experiment programming codes, stimulus materials, data pre-processing and analysis scripts, as well as preprints, are made freely available on the OSF.
Openness
Our research adopts a **cross-linguistic** perspective and actively fosters collaboration with research groups and departments worldwide, promoting genuine **interdisciplinarity**.
[→ Learn more about our main collaborators here.](#)
Reproducibility
We fully support and promote **preregistration** practices, especially for electroencephalographic studies. By emphasizing transparency and methodological rigor, we aim to contribute to a more reliable and cumulative science.
Happiness
This is not an empty statement. Doing our best as researchers also means **maintaining happiness and work-life balance**. We are aware of the pressures of the scientific system, and we strive for efficiency without compromising mental health.
