Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 12

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

Orena, A. J., & White, K. S. (2015). I Forget What That’s Called! Children's Online Processing of Disfluencies Depends on Speaker Knowledge. Child Development, 86(6), 1701–1709. doi:10.1111/cdev.12421 - ANP

A friend recommend DevonThink which works with Mendeley and allows you to organize your papers, and search for related papers (you can give it a paper and it produces a list of papers in your collection that are related). - ANP

WordBank cool visualization of word acquisition. - ANP

MetaLab super cool page with meta-analyses of infant language development - includes a doc on how to make your own meta-analysis . - ANP

What we did over last week

Florian

Edited CUNY abstracts (4).
Met with Mike Kaschak about various projects on syntactic adaptation and how to move forward.
Edited Thomas Hoeberg's thesis chapter.
Two more meetings about potential CUHK-UR grant on studying relearning of articulation in patients with apraxia.
Letters: 6 this week (0 new).

Kodi

Wrote and submitted abstract for SVaLP
Analyzed data for Bradlow and Bent replication. so far, so good (mostly).
Working on CUNY abstract about accent adaptation.
Continued writing/revising review paper on language processing and social-indexical knowledge
Lots of mentoring about mixed effects modeling, analysis workflow, and the use of Rmarkdown for reproducible data reports.
Feedback to undergrads in BCS 206 on their conference application, based on their attempts to replicate Clarke & Garrett (2004)
Worked on job application materials
Built new website/blog using jekyll. (almost ready for launch)

Andrew

Met with Olga and Stephen about self check audit for consent forms
GChat'd with Dave about deploying his subject anonymizer
Made sure all the lab computers have antivirus software in advance of university IT audit on 11/17. Failed miserably on Linux, because AV makers just don't give a crap.
Looked into installing Shiny Server on www, but no initial luck, because it's packaged for the 2012 Ubuntu LTS with a pre-Heartbleed SSL package and Debian refuses to install it. The build process looks... painful.
Initial full version of language survey. Still needs some cleanup and made into something that others can just include in their HITs.
Dealt with scheduled Health and Safety inspection that I wasn't told about until they came to the door looking for Florian.
Started figuring out how to use Docker because the system CouchDB on www is screwed up.

Olga

Worked with Andrew and Stephen to create a new system for self check audit for consent forms
Worked on the tutorial (this past weekend) to go through some of the checklist items
Sent Linda and Zach RA hours for the RAs this semester, checked in with Chris and got his reported hours

Esteban

Gave feedback on some CUNY abstracts.
Returned corrections to proofs for a paper.
Finished preparing materials for eye-tracking pilot.
Cleaned up files in time for audit.
Caught up on a debate between the Goldstein group and the Goldrick group (part 1, part 2, part 3)
Continued revisions on the VOT paper.

Dave

Figures for LLC paper on socioindexical speech perception.
Cleaned up anonymizer code and strategized with Andrew on deployment.
Drafted specific aims (in bullet point form) for DP5
Applied for some more jobs
Analyzed speech fMRI data some more (and presented in lab meeting).

Sarah

Dan

Ran "cohort" version of adaptation-attention study - weird, probably meaningless results
Analysis of data for adaptation-attention study
Wrote up a draft of a CUNY abstract for automatic naming project - not gonna submit it after talking to Mike
Conducted private rituals and used insights to dream up new designs for more language-y follow ups to automatic naming
Careful checking of lists for curtains replication
Applied for an internship at Duolingo

Amanda

Spent the week eating, breathing and sleeping on my BU talk.
Oversaw 6 kids participating in my study.
Gave the above mentioned talk (or I will have by the time we meet - it's on Sunday morning).
Chatted with some people about my studies, caught up with old friends, and talked to some people about Thais' work.
Chatted with Mika Braginsky (aka the person responsible for the super sweet wordbank site) of Mike Frank's lab, she's applying to UR to work with Steve. She seems cool and smart, so I look forward to seeing her at interviews.
Hung out a bit with Brock Ferguson who is apparently looking for a post-doc and has once expressed interest in being at UR (though admittedly, despite originally being from SW Ontario he's now mostly based in the PNW). He wrote a nice little package to analyze eyetracking data in R (see: his page), and designs super great studies.

Zach

Wrote CUNY abstract
Did a lot of analysis for CUNY abstract
Met with Wednesday for Robbie project on conditional confusability
Finished Robbie's homework
Started HLP Lab presentation

Linda

Ran additional experiments for Bradlow and Bent (single talker and multi talker conditions).
Ran experiment to double participants in subtitle project, leading to explosion (basically significant effect in opposite direction...)
Lots of analysis on why said explosion occurred.
Worked on a co-presentation (entitled: Incorporating gestures into models of human-robot interaction) for Tom Howard's lab meeting. We're presenting on Monday.
Worked on CUNY abstract for subtitle project.
Finished Robbie's final HW assignment.
Met with Carol and looked at fmri data (from Dave's animal learning project for Robbie's final proj). Started to understand how to analyze fmri data and read matlab code.

Maryam

Wednesday

Collected and analyzed data for binomials experiment. It went terribly....
Meetings with Roger to talk about data
Collected and analyzed count data from Google Books for uncertainty maintenance project
Read some NLP papers relevant to uncertainty maintenance project
Finished Robbie homework