Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 02

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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Meetings with Helen Meng. We talked in length about how to continue with our project. It was great having a bit more time.
2. Graduation.

3. Spent a good deal of time editing paper with Dan Gildea. Submitted to PNAS.

4. Got reviews for short commentary in Frontiers. Seems like we got our work cut out (but mostly constructive comments).

5. Finished edits for Kodi's paper. Submitted to LCN.

6. Feedback on outline for paper on socially-conditioned ling inferences and linguistically-conditioned social inferences by Dave and Kodi (for TopiCS).

7. Feedback on Wednesday's draft of her project on higher-level adaptation in ditransitives. The data are complex but I think there's something quite interesting there. WE also talked a bit about choosing a good combination of projects, which is perhaps something we could discuss in lab meeting, too.

Kodi

1. Continued analyzing data from various accent adaptation projects.
2. Started planning colloquium talk on linguistic alignment.
3. Emailed back and forth with Molly Babel about my thesis experiments and some follow ups that she is planning. Considering collaborating.

Andrew

1. Ran 90 more workers for Scott's most recent experiment
2. Tweaked my SPR results converter to more gracefully deal with situations where there is just one extra RT than words

3. Used the Jekyl SEO plugin to add SEO friendly tags and Twitter cards to all our webpages. If you want to do the same, you can preview your cards at https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

4. Updated all the consent forms and flyers in the RSRB Dropbox folder and on www, since CrossLinguistic protocol was reapproved

Olga

1. Updated the citation so people can cite the tutorial
2. Met with Florian and Esteban about moving forward with the tutorial and what needs to be done for the analysis section/ resources
3. Will play around with Shiny
4. Graduated

Esteban

Dave

1. Ran other distributions for b/p VOT dist. learning study (and wrote code to parse those results).

2. Debugged list balancing code.

3. Revised and submitted final version of cog sci paper

4. Read a lot about the ventral visual stream, made figures, wrote up results for animals paper.

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Prepped a talk for DevEvo talk series.

2. Worked on a sweet website tutorial for Chigusa's workshop in Hawaii this week on using Qualtrics and MTurk for simple data collection. Click here to see it (note: it's still under construction... so, some links will not work, and some content is left unfilled, until likely Tuesday).

3. Read some papers on number learning, informativity, etc to chat with Wes Orth about an independent project he's thinking of starting up in the Kinder Lab.
4. Made some art.
5. Took too many photos of Rushmore (or maybe not enough).

Zach

Linda

Maryam