Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 16

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

• Grabski, K., Tremblay, P., Gracco, V. L., Girin, L., & Sato, M. (2013). A mediating role of the auditory dorsal pathway in selective adaptation to speech: A state-dependent transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Brain Research, 1515, 55–65. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2013.03.024. TMS applied at the onset of categorization stimulus after adaptation. Appears to show big enhancement of adaptation effects in TMS conditions vs. shame, but really under powered (n=12) and difference only shows up when you look at the second half of adaptation session (and even then it's entirely driven by absence of adaptation in sham condition). So probably crap. -DFK

• Zäske, R., Fritz, C., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2013). Spatial inattention abolishes voice adaptation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75(3), 603–13. doi:10.3758/s13414-012-0420-y. Only adapt to gender of attended voice. Also interesting because adaptation stimuli are either classified for gender (exp1) or phonetic properties (exp2), but get strong gender adaptation effects in both cases. -DFK

• Wright, B. a., Baese-Berk, M. M., Marrone, N., & Bradlow, A. R. (2015). Enhancing speech learning by combining task practice with periods of stimulus exposure without practice. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(2), 928–937. doi:10.1121/1.4927411 Both novel phonetic category learning and adaptation to a foreign accent enhanced by mixed active practice and passive listening (if I've read the abstract correctly). -DFK

What we did over last week

Florian

Chigusa

Andrew

Olga

1. Created the new schedule for autumn, sent out the whenisgood
2. Played catch up with e-mails
3. Mainly worked for the Kinderlab this week with recruitment

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

1. Got Amanda to record stimuli for attention adaptation
2. Cleaned, split up, denoised those stimuli and created (and recreated) continua for each critical item
3. Worked on experiment scripts

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Maryam

Wednesday