Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 8

This week we are going to talk about distributions. We are going to discuss what it means for motor/speech behavior to change and what that entails for the change in the distribution of that behavior. You can prepare for lab meeting in two ways. Either:

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

Interesting paper testing whether the timing of childrens' motor movements follow Fitts' law:

What we did over last week

Florian

  1. Took a breather from teaching and enjoyed watching Esteban teach. Instead spent a criminal amount of time editing the CrowdExp Tutorial and sending page-long bug reports about CrowdExp to Andrew.

  2. Edited Masha's paper on constituent order and case-marking, which was accepted toCognitive Science. Woohaa.

  3. Proofs for Kuperberg & Jaeger for LCN.

  4. Proofs (final round) for Harris et al special issue on cross-linguistic research in psycholinguistics for LCN.

  5. Met with Jane Grimshaw to revive complementizer project (at the interface of syntax/semantics and online language production)
  6. Met with Carlos Gallo to revive project on inter-clausal production for special issue in Lingua.

  7. Feedback on Wednesday's NSF proposal.

  8. Feedback on Zach's experiment proposal.

  9. Feedback on proposal for special issue in Royal Proceedings - Series B for Damian Blasi and Sean Roberts.

  10. Marvelled at Linda's array of online paradigms for accent perception studies. I think we'll be looking forward to an onslaught of studies on this topic! Hurray.
  11. Declined two requests to review (JML, Frontiers) agreed to one (Cognition).

  12. Reviewed one paper for Cognition.

Kodi

  1. Met with Florian, Chigusa and Maryam about review paper on language processing as inference under uncertainty based on socio-indexical knowledge. We now have a clear shared vision!

  2. Continued writing/revising said review paper

  3. Wrote a bunch of praat scripts to edit stimuli and embed them in noise (for replication/extension of Bradlow and Bent, 2008)

  4. Met with Dave to work on morphing vowel continua with tandemStraight for distributional learning project

  5. Edited stimuli for subtitle project (with Zach and Linda)

  6. Accepted a review invitation from JML

Andrew

  1. BCS 152
  2. BCS 152
  3. BCS 152
  4. BCS 152
  5. BCS 152

Olga

  1. Worked on the tutorial; fixed the lists, redid some css, updated navigation, made screenshots
  2. Trying to figure what happened on the website that it now has a broken link

Esteban

  1. prepped and gave two lectures in BCS 152
  2. conferred with Anne Pier on the design of a eye tracking study
  3. edited materials for the SPR tutorial
  4. re-worked a bunch of distribution analyses for the JML paper
  5. delved into the phonetics literature for (lack of) invariant properties of voicing contrasts

Dave

Sarah

  1. Continued editing SET manuscript for Lap Phon special issue.

  2. Reviewed stimuli for next Lookslike experiment.
  3. Met with students for BCS 111.
  4. Skyped with Laura Dilley about a potential post-doc.

Dan

Amanda

  1. Learned about using random slope & random intercept mixed effects logistical regressions, and what to do when they don't converge. Spent a lot of time trying to wrap my head around what should be included in the random slope / intercept calculations.

  2. Helped my RA Val figure out the design of her study, which is coupled with:

  3. Tried to get everything set-up on one of the Kinder Lab tablet computers to run eye-tracking tasks with the EyeTribe

  4. Recorded a bunch of people for my new kid task, wound up using my own recordings.

  5. Made some puppet videos for my new study. Contemplating making a few blooper reels in my spare time.

  6. Set-up the new study so that my RAs can run kids this week, and I can tell you about it next week (this will be done by Monday, but is not currently done as of noon on Saturday).

  7. Revised the mammals paper to include the results from the new analyses (see: 1), and to accommodate for reviewer requests. Final draft to be submitted by Tuesday.

Zach

  1. Presented Levy (2008) for BCS 501

  2. Presented for my committee check up meting

  3. Coded Robbie's homework

  4. Met with Wednesday to discuss Robbie's project

  5. Worked on my NSF. I feel like I have great ideas, but not enough time to write it.

  6. Going over the BCS 152 exam with undergrads who took the text

  7. Tested the CrowdExp site for bugs

Linda

  1. Coded up Clarke and Garrett style replication block for the BCS replication class.
  2. Added glossary words that Olga requested to BCS tutorial
  3. Presented in Robbie's class
  4. Met with Carol to discuss Robbie's final project. We're going to be working with Dave's fmri animal dataset.
  5. Currently prepping Bradlow & Bent replication Exp1 for live run! Working on sending out a version for feedback by the end of the weekend, maybe even today.

  6. Continued working on NSF. Goal is to have drafts by the end of the weekend.

Maryam

Wednesday

  1. Spent 5ever on Robbie's homework
  2. Presented Bell et al. (2009) in Chigusa & Mike's class

  3. Talked with Zach about possible final projects for Robbie's class
  4. Brainstormed ideas for other possible projects

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