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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Letters: 1 this week (0 new).

Kodi

1. Wrote and submitted abstract for SVaLP

2. Analyzed data for Bradlow and Bent replication. so far, so good (mostly).

3. Working on CUNY abstract about accent adaptation.

4. Continued writing/revising review paper on language processing and social-indexical knowledge

5. Lots of mentoring about mixed effects modeling, analysis workflow, and the use of Rmarkdown for reproducible data reports.

6. Feedback to undergrads in BCS 206 on their conference application, based on their attempts to replicate Clarke & Garrett (2004)

7. Worked on job application materials

8. Built new website/blog using jekyll. (almost ready for launch)

Andrew

Olga

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

Esteban

1. Gave feedback on some CUNY abstracts.
2. Returned corrections to proofs for a paper.
3. Finished preparing materials for eye-tracking pilot.
4. Cleaned up files in time for audit.

5. Caught up on a debate between the Goldstein group and the Goldrick group (part 1, part 2, part 3)

6. Continued revisions on the VOT paper.

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Spent the week eating, breathing and sleeping on my BU talk.
2. Oversaw 6 kids participating in my study.
3. Gave the above mentioned talk (or I will have by the time we meet - it's on Sunday morning).
4. Chatted with some people about my studies, caught up with old friends, and talked to some people about Thais' work.

5. 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.

6. 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

Linda

1. Ran additional experiments for Bradlow and Bent (single talker and multi talker conditions).
2. Ran experiment to double participants in subtitle project, leading to explosion (basically significant effect in opposite direction...)
3. Lots of analysis on why said explosion occurred.
4. 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.
5. Worked on CUNY abstract for subtitle project.
6. Finished Robbie's final HW assignment.
7. 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