Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 1

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

• The pitfall of experimenting on the web: How unattended selective attrition leads to surprising (yet false) research conclusions --alw

What we did over last week

Florian

1. To do:
   • Talk about possibility of collaboration/visit to Paola Escudero’s lab.
   • Talk about Kavli workshop
2. Grants:
   • No-cost extension to NSF
   • REU submitted and funded to NSF
   • Rejected: new NSF proposal
3. Application for leave: 07/2017-06/2018
4. Presented:
   • Plenary SST satellite workshop about Bayesian approach to phonology.
   • UC Irvine about inference under uncertainty in speech production and perception.
   • Macquarie University about inference under uncertainty in speech production and perception.
5. Read application files and decided on invitations for next year
6. Grading
7. Letters
   • Faculty jobs: 20ish (2)
   • Internships: 11 (2)
   • Fellowships: 1 (1)
8. Reviews
   • CUNY

   • Agreed to review for CogSci

9. Reminders sent out about planning papers
   • Zach
   • Wednesday (replied)
   • Linda (replied and acted)
10. Quals
    • Prepped and graded: Linda
    • Prepped and graded: Shaorong
    • Feedback on idea: Zach
11. Edited

    • Liu & Jaeger on causal inference in speech perception (x2)

    • Liu, Xie, Weatherholtz, & Jaeger on accent adaptation

    • Yan & Jaeger on unsupervised adaptation in speech perception (x3)

    • Thurnbull, Seyfarth, Hume & Jaeger on assimilation in conversational speech

12. Reports:
    • annual COI
    • annual travel disclosure
    • annual faculty report (ca. 5h)
    • annual NSF report (ca. 2 days)
13. Planned
    • Kavli Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience:
      • almost all speakers invited
      • most of them confirmed
14. Feedback on:
    • Scott Seyfarth’s paper on assimilation (x2)
    • Shaorong’s studies on speech adaptation
    • Wednesday and Klinton’s project on uncertainty in spoken word recognition
    • Zach’s thesis and qual topic proposal(s)
    • Thomas Hoberg’s paper idea
    • Chigusa’s NSF proposal
    • Xin’s job talk abstract

Xin

Andrew

1. Added Florian's 2016 publications for his annual NIH report
2. Added same publications to the lab publications page
3. Did the RSRB Continuing Review for Adaptation

4. Helped Jenn get ExBuilder stuff set up on the Kurumada lab

Jenn

1. Sent out poll and set up meeting time for this semester
2. Contacted future guests to the HLP Lab (mainly who are coming in the month of Feb) regarding specific times to visit
3. Set up Ex-Builder for artificial language study on new desktop in our Eye-Tracking room (Kurumada lab) with help of Andrew

Dan

Amanda

1. To do:

   • Work on CogSci paper draft

   • Work on draft of kid paper, look at the uncertainty coding done by one of the undergrads in the lab
   • Plan studies with Mike on uncertainty (with hope of submitting an abstract to XPrag, due Feb 15th)
   • Start prepping posters for CSLI workshop to be presented to the undergrads in the labs as first practice on Feb 3
   • Chat with Chigusa and Bethany about the new eye-tracking studies
2. Grants:
   • Submitted my APF grant for funding for my dissertation year (pays up to $25,000 for literally anything related to my project, including my own salary - only intended for developmental students).
   • Submitted my NSF DDRIG (Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant) last week to pay for some of the costs of some of the projects that will be in my dissertation ($12,000). It's a lot of work, there are a lot of supplementary docs. Start early.
3. Updates:
   • Two abstracts were accepted as posters for the CSLI workshop on pragmatics (appropriate attribution of informativity differences for speakers, and kid talker-specific adaptation work)
   • Two abstracts were accepted as posters for CUNY (with the usual mixed bag of reviewers, 3/4 of my reviewers gave me stellar reviews going so far as to say that my abstract was the best they read, and one reviewer gave me all 1s saying that no one at CUNY would care about my work / that it's not sentence processing).

     • appropriate attribution of informativity differences for speakers (w/ Sarah Brown-Schmidt & Chigusa)

     • how do children interpret adjectives (wrt to the local context, wrt the kind, etc; 1st authored by my independent study student, Wes, and Chigusa)
4. Organization:
   • set up RA lab meetings, they'll be every 2 weeks on Fridays at noon. Please encourage your RAs to attend, and attend yourself. The RAs will be taking turns talking about their work, giving practice talks to each other, reading papers, etc. We also need grad students to teach small workshops, etc on intervening weeks.
   • scheduled ESP (Mondays @ 1)
5. Reviewing:

   • Reviewed for GSA travel grants (everyone going to CUNY or other conferences should consider submitting this term, they increased the value); I also heard a rumour that the $800 scholarship one could apply for through the grad school got cut

   • Looked over a prospective application by Josh Hartshorne for the NIH
   • Previewed a similar such prospective for Josh, to give feedback about whether I thought it would be of interest to folks I know - he's working on some projects to set up a system to run classic psycholinguistic studies online with populations beyond the US.

Zach

Linda

Wednesday

Shaorong