• LabmeetingSU16w5

Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 5

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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited paper on uncertainty maintenance with Klinton and Mike T, which was fun. I think we're almost ready to resubmit.

2. Wrote and presented two presentations at University of Stockholm. One in linguistics, one in psychology.

3. Feedback on paper on nasal coarticulation with Thurbull, Seyfarth, and Hume.

4. Feedback on design for study on hyper-articulation in Armenian to Scott Seyfarth.

5. Feedback on Guillermo's post-doc plans.

6. Met with Lauren, Madeline, and Wes to talk about their research plans and current study assignments. Esteban, don't you need additional annotators?

7. Looked at Kodi and Linda's CUNY poster and got excited about that project on accent adaptation again. Really cool. I'm going to present some of it at Stockholm.

8. Declined 1 review.

Andrew

1. Walked Zach through running his first HIT on MTurk

2. Created Git Basics tutorial for RA meeting (slides in process)

3. Got RA lab meeting wiki pages set up, including a weekly meeting template like this one but with the RA names: RAMeetingWeekTemplate

4. Did RA photoshoot with Dan and Olga, then got the pictures added to the lab website

5. Worked on CrowdExp

Olga

1. Updated the definitions that people sent me for the tutorial. Please define more! I would greatly appreciate it
2. Updating the tutorial bit by bit. Thinking what I should make the shiny app be like. Will try to get around to it next week
3. Organized the photo shoot so we now have head shots of the RAs for our website! They look so nice! Thanks Dan.
4. Got an on-site interview. Wo0o0o0o!

Esteban

Dave

Dan

Amanda

Zach

1. Baby's first MTurk experiment (Pupillometry C&G stuff)

2. Worked on implementing Dave's "put your data in an R package" thing
3. Developed sanity checks for the pilot pupillometry data (good thing too, because there were mistakes!)
4. Gittin' good it git

5. Fixed some errors in the C&G code

6. Getting the RAs rallied appropriately / managing stimuli
7. Running baby's second MTurk experiment (correcting earlier mistakes)
8. Remade stimuli for TT experiment.

Linda

1. Got back from China
2. Caught up on a million emails.
3. Worked on compiling quals reading list.
4. More writing and analysis for pen in the mouth.

Wednesday

1. Tried in vain to find some explanation for weird effects in my data
2. Wrote (more like outlined) more of paper
3. Thought about other experiments that would address questions that have come up while writing...