Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 3

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

Florian

Kodi

1. Manuscript prep: worked on converting two of my thesis experiments into a journal manuscript

2. Completed a draft of said manuscript and sent it to Cynthia Clopper for feedback

3. Met with Linda about poster for CUNY

Andrew

1. Helped Wednesday get set up to run MTurk studies
2. Helped Esteban get his MTurk study set up on new www

3. Started porting my old Flask web SPR running script into CrowdExp as a general experiment runner

Olga

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Held the organizational ESP meeting
2. Met with Olga to try to organize the RAs, set up some meetings with some RAs to try to delegate tasks
3. Met with Val about her grad school interviews, her project
4. Thought a lot about memory, information compression, and processing abilities of children. Chatted a bit with Flo about it, asked Dick about what he knows about research on children's memory abilities. Thought about how task demands influence whether children can use a contrast as a constraint.
5. Had a very successful in lab (child) participant - thought about toys that need to be ordered for our play space.
6. Chatted with the RAs about recruiting at the hospital, scheduled visits with Olga.
7. Attended the BCS and Neuro job talks, heard a lot about alpha oscillations - had lunch with the BCS candidate.
8. Set up meetings with lab manager candidates for the Kinder Lab, met with the first of them.
9. Gave a short chat with my class about how to write article summaries, tools for researching and focusing, and finding research positions. Some of them looked like they thought this information was useful... so that's good.

Zach

Linda

1. Ran no subtitle and +subtitle condition (90 participants) in the single word version of the Subtitle Experiment.

2. Read Eisner et al 2013 for C&G Replication Meeting group. Reread Clarke and Garret 2004 for RA meeting. Read some papers on the perceptual magnet effect for work with Chigusa and Iris.

3. Met with Mike about problems with Kamide Replication PtII. Went through all sentences and images with Zach to create list of adjustments. Met with Lauren to go over list of said changes.
4. Proofread and gave feedback on undergrad resume.
5. Did statistics homework.

Maryam

Wednesday