• LabmeetingAU16w4

Lab Meeting, Autumn 2016, Week 4

For next week!

Read Lexical representations are malleable for about one second: Evidence for the non-automaticity of perceptual recalibration, Samuel (2016)! Dan and Xin will talk about this paper, couched in a discussion on the role of attention in perceptual adaptation

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

• A little python script I put together for batch editing / resizing images; saves tons of RA time on prepping images for some studies - AP

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited paper with Zach.

2. Replied to lots of feedback on paper with Kathleen Hall, Beth Hume, and Andy Wedel on message-driven phonology.
3. Read post-doc application files, some new, some old, to fill the two open positions we have.
4. Interviewed an external RA candidate.
5. Answered a few stats queries.

Xin

1. Started weekly meeting with students for research methods course
2. Read a lot on accent/memory papers
3. Thought about ways to collection information on talker similarity
4. Prepared a bit for presentation on Attention in Perceptual Adaptation

Andrew

1. Updated the lab webpage to add Xin and Shaorong (still need picture and blurb for Shaorong), move Kodi into postdoc alumni
2. Started an RSRB amendment to reflect all the autumn personnel changes

3. Worked on my most recent CrowdExp list of changes from last week's meeting with Florian

4. Actually got Enunciate working on Mac in Meliora 123C and PC in 123D

Dan

Amanda

1. Met with all of the RAs, Mike, and Chigusa. Some of these meetings were more or less brief than others.
2. Thought through some of the design of my mini-language study.
3. Tried to think through gamifying a distributional learning study - gonna look over Ting's whack-the-mole for inspiration.
4. Reading a bunch about relative scalar adjectives (which are somewhat my jam).
5. Reading a bunch about NLG, etc for my eventual lab meeting chat.
6. Wrote an entire scholarship application in ~36 hours, including a personal statement, a research plan (with 4 studies), and a budget. Wish me luck.

7. Put together a little script in python to batch edit / resize images, which is particularly useful for VWP eye-tracking studies.

Zach

1. Made a totally bitchin' academic website (WIP) http://www.zachburchill.tk/

2. Debugging MTurk pupillometry exposure experiment. (Discovered a bug in PapaParse as well)

3. Quals research and reading list stuff.
4. Subtitle paper drafts and ideas.

Linda

1. Worked on debugging TOH experiment so it can go live in the next day or so.
2. Got together MTurk materials for the NRT class. Started looking into the VOT corpora that Dave sent.
3. Met with Zach to talk about Kamide project and what still needs to be done.
4. TA duties: there was an assignment due this week, so answered a bunch of worried emails and held office hours.
5. Had a chill weekend packing and eating through Rochester with Jon, before he moved to Seattle for his job today (Monday) T_T

Wednesday

1. Prepared & presented poster at the Dimensions of D workshop

2. Prepared presentation on Shortlist B for HLP last week

3. Read a bunch of papers & made draft of presentation for Cognition (spreading activation models woo woo)

4. NRT homework
5. TA stuff -- there's an assignment due on Wednesday, so answering many last-minute questions!

Shaorong

1. Working on a manuscript that's due by the end of this week.
2. Talked about research ideas with different people.
3. (Still) Working on the lab presentation this week.