Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 15

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

I think this looks like a beautifully simply demonstration of a deep principle. Shafto, Goodman, Griffiths 2014. A rational account of pedagogical reasoning: Teaching by, and learning from, examples --TFJ
Dan Kahan doesn’t trust the Turk from Andrew Gelman's blog --ALW
cool paper on cross-linguistic effects in language production: Hwang, H., & Kaiser, E. (2015). Accessibility effects on production vary cross-linguistically: Evidence from English and Korean. Journal of Memory and Language, 84, 190–204. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.06.004

Edited first four sections of revisions for Kuperberg and Jaeger on what might as well be called what the heck is prediction?.
Edited Esteban's phonological neighborhood density paper and the letter to the editor. I think it's ready to be submitted.
Edited two sections of my handbook chapter based on feedback from Esteban and made a number of small to medium changes to other sections based on feedback from Jennifer Arnold and others.
Reviewed one article for Psychological Review and another for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Provided feedback to Jessamny Schertz for an NRSA post-doc application.
Provided feedback on Zach's draft of his What's in an accent? project.
Got invited to Linguistics, U of Michigan and Linguistics, Leiden University.
Started to plan visit to CUHK for early September.
Met with Wednesday to talk about next steps in her research. I think there are some neat follow-ups to her thesis work that she should talk about some time soon in a lab meeting. Let's schedule that.
Declined one review request from Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence. Too swamped.
Congratulations to Dave for getting his paper on selective adaptation accepted with minor revisions on the first submission. I think we will integrate a few revisions beyond that based on the great comments we got from Remez, but this is great news.

Analyzed/repurposed an old data set to investigate whether syntactic variation conveys social meaning, or whether socially meaningful variation is limited to phonetic and lexical variation.
Developed project proposal for new experiments on syntactic alignment.
Read the current draft of Maryam's review of research on sociolinguistic variation and language processing.
Met with Maryam to develop a plan for finishing the research review.
Met with Dan about his thesis experiments on attention and perceptual recalibration.

Started actually writing code for the BCS152 CrowdExp thing
Tried integrating the 3rd party libraries into the BCS152 CrowdExp thing which will eventually make my life easier, but so far aren't doing so
Installed everything for CrowdExp again on my laptop to verify portability and so I can show Florian what exists before he leaves

Finished up another round of revisions to a paper with Florian. Hopefully to re-submit.
Met with Florian about said paper.
Continued to revise a paper with Florian and Mike.
Met with the teaching team of BCS 152 to prep for the term.
Accomplished misc course prep for BCS 152.

Coded OAuth server-base authentication for anonymization app, with tests, including R interface as a package.
Started to write paper for animals category learning fMRI project
Generate figures for animals project (including some pretty heavy debugging and refactoring of relevant functions in the rsatoolbox before giving up and just doing it in R).
Reviewed a book proposal for MIT Press.

BCS 111

Other

Revised design for Curtains-Attention Project
Prepared materials for nonlinguistic visual search mturk project - planning to deploy this week
Reviewed other studies and changed materials for attention-adaptation project - switching to b/d
Carefully read new Kronmüller & Barr metaanalysis of referential precedents - v helpful for thinking through the conceptual pacts line of curtain studies