Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 12

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

Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022537172800069. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 11(6), 717-726. - AP, for Zach

Put together a mock-up of the new naming study to show Mike the new design. Mike, APS, and I think that we may have found a design that will finally work. This week I have to figure out the filler structure so that we can prepare new recordings and get it off the ground.
Ran the various tasks for Val's Experiment 2 on Turk - looking at how the namability of an object, versus the compositionality of its features influences the way listeners think about referring expressions.
Set-up the new design for the Frontiers follow-up with Chigusa and Sarah Brown-Schmidt. Looking essentially at whether or not we can see Kraljic-like explaining away for referential expression choices.
Worked on my lunch talk, gave a practice version at ESP on Monday, gave the actual talk on Wednesday.
Thought about the design of a new study with Mike looking at what expectations people have about the way others will refer to ambiguous objects, and what information they can learn about the world/the speaker by manipulating speaker certainty, speaker reliability, and listener certainty.
Started grading exams for BCS259.