Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 10

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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Visited Berkeley

2. Wrote letters: 10 this week.

3. Feedback on four NSF GRFs

4. Finished draft of CUHK-UR grant proposal.
5. Another round of proofs for Yildirim et al and Kuperberg and Jaeger.

Kodi

1. Finished writing/revising a psychology-oriented version of my job materials. Applied for a job.

2. Edited stimuli and analyzed pilot data for replication attempt of Clarke and Garrett (2004)

3. Analyzed stimulus materials for project on (un)supervised distributional learning of vowel variation.

Andrew

1. Working through CrowdExp TODO list for BCS 152

2. Created a Git repo for the language survey everyone wants

3. Emailed back and forth with Esteban and Dave about how to record audio on the web for Kodi's SocAlign2 experiment

Olga

1. submitted the audit. To do: update the wiki page for it
2. Mainly worked in Chigusa's lab this week and prepped for a test

Esteban

1. Re-wrote VOT exaggeration specificity analysis for the miscommunication manuscript.

2. Re-wrote major parts of the results and discussion sections of the miscommunication manuscript.

3. Started proof-checking a manuscript for LCN publication.

4. Revised/edited a few sections of the BCS 152 tutorial.

5. Misc. BCS 152 class tasks.

6. Sent some experimental code to Maryam.

Dave

1. GLM analyses for speech imaging data.

2. Applied for a few more jobs. (And did a phone interview).

3. Re-wrote introduction for animals paper and drafted methods section.

4. Ran some additional analyses using a full set of anatomical ROIs for the animals project and analyzed. Required a bit of re-factoring and number crunching.

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Finalized a nearly short-enough version of my Quals reading list.
2. Finished running an 8 kid version of the new kid mammals task, in case you're wondering 7/8 kids picked the informatively modifying speaker.
3. Set up a version of the task where the kids get no feedback, and are just told that if they guess right that they'll get the stickers at the end.
4. Started watching all of the kid videos.

5. Tried to find papers looking at how frequently parents use scalar / color adjectives in the presence of a contrast. Found debatably one. If you know of others I'd love to hear about it.

6. Ran a sample task with the EyeTribe and the Eyelink with Linda. If I can ever get NumPy to update I'll be able to compare the data.

7. Worked a little bit on the KinderLab Website.

Zach

1. Finished NSF GRFP
2. Started push for CUNY Abstract

Linda

1. Checked out the EyeTribe eyetracker with Amanda. Stared at way too many black/white trials for sample data.

2. Put up working wav files for C&G replication

3. Finished NSF GRFP and submitted.

4. Some modifications to get BradlowBrent replication up and running for next week.

5. Checked out repository for avatar proj. Finally got an account. It's empty except for a cmake file (shudder).

Maryam

Wednesday

1. Preprocessing of Switchboard corpus for BCS 512 project, did some sanity-check analyses
2. Gave feedback on Carol's NSF statements
3. Completely overhauled NSF research statement to new topic

4. Finished NSF materials and submitted!!!!!

5. Classwork
6. Managed to finally get that cold that's been going around. Yay.