TRUST Network

What is "TRUST" Network?

TRUST network aims to build a transparent, transferable, and sustainable foundation for psycholinguistic reading studies in German. The Network will bring together more than 20 researchers in the field to develop transferable and sustainable guidelines for researchers to address critical challenges, including methodological robustness, reproducibility, generalisability, and statistical power. The project will run for three years and provide funding for regular meetings for the network members. TRUST is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and will run under the umbrella of GeWoNN.

We have regular meetings during which we strive to develop best practice guides for single-word reading research in German. Our long-term goal is to establish a Reading Research Center in Germany.

TRUST Network Mission

The goal of TRUST is to increase the quality of current reading research practices. We want to establish best-practice and collective research guidelines for the field, providing an optimal, transparent, and sustainable basis for across-lab investigations. In the network, we bring together a group of expert researchers to compile:

Transparent and consensual guidelines for single-word reading research in skilled native-speaking German adult readers
Transferable guidelines, i.e., an annotated version of the same German guidelines which will allow researchers to adapt them to different languages, with different participant samples (e.g., beginning readers, dyslexics), and paradigms (e.g., single word or text presentation)
Sustainable guidelines: In a final step, we want to discuss possibilities of giving such guidelines sustainability so that future studies in mono- and multi-linguistic reading research have a common and regularly updated basis for implementing high-quality investigations.

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