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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited first two sections of revisions for Kuperberg and Jaeger on what might as well be called what the heck is prediction?.

2. Reviewed one article for Psychological Review.

Kodi

Andrew

Olga

Esteban

Dave

1. Coded OAuth server-base authentication for anonymization app, with tests, including R interface as a package.

2. Started to write paper for animals category learning fMRI project

3. 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).

4. Reviewed a book proposal for MIT Press.

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Maryam