Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 8

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

Edited introduction to Esteban's paper on phonological neighborhood density. I think it's better than the version I had outlined before. So, a bit of a detour, but hopefully worth it.
Edited Dave's paper for a final round and then read through his letter to the editor. To be submitted this week.
Read through Linda's most recent result reports. Remind me during lab mtg that I'd like to brainstorm a bit with you guys about them. I think there are some potentially rather puzzling things going on, though there's also reason to be hopeful that the results make sense.

Continued writing and revising the encyclopedia article on speech perception and cross-talker generalization. The article is shaping up and (I think) covers considerable ground in a limited space. It will be ready for feedback soon!
Made figures for encyclopedia article (which involved a brief detour of experimentation with proposed vowel normalization methods).
Read a bunch of foundational articles on gesture-based theories of speech perception (motor theory, direct realism).
Began reviewing a manuscript on perceptual adaptation for JASA.
Finished reviewing a manuscript on adaptation to foreign-accented speech for JEP:HPP.

After a lot of back and forth finally got the flyer for the eye-tracking experiment formatted.
Figured out the kinks in using the REDcap system with SONA.
Tutorial : Working on making the navigation bar highlight the tabs. Can make it do it on a separate document, just not on the template... Working on finding the javascript code to ask questions. Finding the javascript code in order to highlight definitions. Found another site for scripts outside jQuery and Bootstrap, hotscripts.

A (maybe, really, truly) final round of edits on the selective adaptation paper, including writing a cover letter etc. etc.
Documented the data in the R package I released on github for the supervised/unsupervised distributional learning experiment (so that Alex Fine can use it as an example dataset in a regression class). If you'd like to download it and play with it yourself, you can grab it using devtools: install.packages('devtools'); library(devtools); devtools::install_github('kleinschmidt/phonetic-sup-unsup'); library(supunsup); dat <- supunsup::supunsup_clean; ?supunsup
Generated some results figures for the animal category learning experiment (MDS plots of neural similarity based on cross-validated hybrid anatomical/functional ROIs).
Planned out next set of analyses for the animals.

Edited another version of Mike and Chigusa's grant.
Chatted with Olga and Val about the brochure and new IRB.
Worked on the approach section of the brochure.
Caught up on a bit of reading based on the grant.
Worked on two new studies, Olga helped with the images, making sure the counterbalancing is right for Turk.
Thought about my kid studies.

Trained Lauren on running eye-tracking peeps with Liz as subject.
Head-banged on desk with Zach re eye-tracking data and struggles with (not having) pyo to play the audio files to reduce latencies. This should be resolved next week. (So, so, so, so damn annoying)
Turned in first draft of accent modeling project
Wrote more scripts for the ICA project

Trained Lauren on running eye-tracking peeps with Liz as subject.
Head-banged on desk with Zach re eye-tracking data and struggles with (not having) pyo to play the audio files to reduce latencies. This should be resolved next week.
Read Zach's work on accent modeling for comprehension uncertainty.
Ran a bunch of pen in the mouth experiments on mturk with the participant-specific calibrations. It's amazing how widely people vary in their categorization boundaries, and how many people are still at floor.
Obtained a lot of accent materials (chicken little story in various accents); thought about potential experiments.
Looked at LSA workshops; contacted apt subletter to change date of arrival.