Lab Meeting, Autumn 2016, Week 6

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)

Horowitz, Schneider, & Frank (under review). The trouble with quantifiers: Explaining children’s deficits in scalar implicature. Just saw this this morning -- the claim is that kids have issues with scalar implicature because they don't know enough about quantifiers. -WRB

Meylan, Frank, Roy, & Levy (in press at Psych Science). The emergence of an abstract grammatical category in children’s early speech. They use Deb Roy's crazy big corpus to estimate whether children have abstract generative knowledge of NPs; they only find evidence for this later in development, with the kid first seeming to prefer to use nouns with the particular determiner they've heard it used with from a caregiver. Haven't read in depth but sound really cool! -WRB

What we did over last week

Florian

Xin

1. Worked on grant proposal ideas.
2. Met with Linda and Florian about BB08 and follow-ups on talker similarity ratings. Had a plan. Starting on a draft.
3. Met with Amanda to catch up on her research.
4. Read and prepared for lab meeting presentation.

Andrew

1. Wrote a README for the language survey and looked over the code so I could raise a skeptical eyebrow at 18 month ago me.

2. Read documentation for React, which has become the dominant reactive JavaScript library, and I'm thinking of rewriting some stuff I've previously done using other libraries with it.

3. Wrote a simple React thing to show the lab blog feed from Google's RSS API GoogleRSSFeed

4. Attempted to figure out what the IRB deal is with BCS 530

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

1. Worked on dissertation proposal.
2. Started a draft on my kid research.
3. Met with Xin to catch up on what she's working on.
4. Thought about some new studies / project with Geertje down the line.
5. Continued reading Reiter and Dale.

Zach

1. Worked on BCS 152 slides, held a small review session for the exam.
2. Integrated free response language background information into exclusion criteria
3. Struggled with generating "room tone" and putting pdfs into readable formats
4. Analyzed pupillometry data

Linda

1. Worked on materials for NRT class.
2. Met with Xin and Florian about BB08 followup.
3. Analysis for TOH data.
4. Met with undergrads with Xin and Florian to talk about online experiments and such.
5. Annoying had to update RStudio, R etc to obtain latest versions of ggplot and cowplot.

Wednesday

1. Created presentation for lab meeting
2. Created a CNN to classify vowels for NRT class!
3. Put together presentation for NRT class
4. Did readings for Cognition this week, did additional readings for my presentation
5. Re-analyzed Bicknell et al. data
6. Prepared presentation for Steve's lab meeting (basically the same as at HLP)
7. Todo: prepare for BCS 111 review session

Shaorong

1. Worked on assignment for NRT course.
2. Putting together a reading list for quals.

3. Talked about crazy research ideas (same as presented at HLP lab) at KurTan Lab.