Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 4

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

CIRC Bootcamps - you need to have a bluehive account, but you can get one by saying you are waitlisted for a class (they haven't been actually full, so you can probably attend)

Florian

  1. Sent an angry email to JASA/JASA-EL. For our express letter submission we've waited almost 5 months and the editorial staff was rather unresponsive. Not sure we will resubmit another paper there, but at least the main editor really helped and apologized, once we contacted him. End result: Esteban and Scott's paper is about to come out in the next JASA-EL issue (later this month).

  2. Submitted an internal proposal for the University Research Award for research with Helen Meng at CUHK.

  3. Sent out post-doc ad for CUNY and AMLaP list. Please spread the word on twitter etc.
  4. Talked with Masha to prep dry run for her first job talk.
  5. Talked with Tal about job negotiations at JHU.

  6. Edited Nikki Craycraft's paper on cue-based learning in syntactic adaptation, which I owed her for a record 1-year(!), I'm ashamed to admit.

  7. Met with three faculty candidates.
  8. Met with Baxter Evans and Pat Shafto (at Rutgers) about possible collaborations.

Kodi

  1. Prepared and delivered an R tutorial for undergrads in BCS 207

  2. Worked on stimuli for extension of C&G2004 (w/ BCS 207 students)

  3. Resumed work on the socially-mediated syntactic alignment project; stimuli creation and list creation for new experiment (in preparation for SVaLP)

  4. Began working on CUNY poster

  5. Met with Dave about collaboration on distributional learning of vowel variability under supervised and unsupervised conditions

  6. Updated my website: fixed responsive issues for mobile

Andrew

  1. Converted Kodi's SocAlign1 experiment from being a WebOb app to a Flask app as the first upgrade step on the way to dumping the dead-as-a-doornail Wami in favor of native WebAudio API.

  2. Did my IRB recertification

Olga

  1. Created the UR Box folder for potential post docs
  2. Mainly working on Kinderlab stuff.
  3. Adaptation protocol got approved! Will update the dropbox as soon as I get space/ or get the HLP login.

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

  1. Attended a course on Bash at CIRC - it was mostly a good refresher on some commands used for the terminal
  2. Scheduled and prepped for a review session for BCS 259.
  3. Organized the homework submissions, and peer reviews for BCS 259. Started grading.
  4. Started training one of my RAs in Praat annotations, how they are used to set up VWP studies.
  5. Had refresher meetings with my kid training RAs on how to run kids.
  6. Went to the GCH to try to recruit families, learned an important lesson about getting families to date consent forms (aka the RSRB will not give you any leeway).
  7. Met with Val to discuss her grad interview, talk about papers she should read, submitting to the undergrad symposium, the state of affairs with her project.
  8. Interviewed the 3 candidates for the Kinder Lab manager position, read their essays.
  9. Started attending a course on Python at CIRC - it's marginally better. Learned more about using the terminal (despite the course being taught in a GUI.
  10. Made a wiki for the Kinder Lab - if you are in the lab and want access let me know.
  11. Started scheduling to meet with / train RAs to transcribe and code past kid videos.

Zach

  1. Turned 25
  2. Ran and preliminarily analyzed subtitle conditions for subtitle talk experiment
  3. Proofread some papers
  4. Finished and submitted Cogsci paper

Linda

  1. Went through latest edited images for Syntactic Adaptation Experiment 2 and made further notes about edits to RAs. Made a few new scenes and sentences.

  2. Looked into OpenSesame (basically a open-source, drag-and-drop experiment builder type of thing with support for PyGaze). Worked through the tutorial. Decided eh, it's not actually easier than coding in raw python if you already know python, though it might be a good option for lab-based, SIMPLE, non-eyetracking experiments.

  3. Wrote up a few stimuli for the Causal Inference Tongue Twister idea. Provided RAs with instructions to write a few more. Trying to keep the sentences decently not absurd, and it's hard!
  4. Did a mock trial of blending R and L in Tandem -- sounds pretty good. (Basically, from an email from Gary Dell and an article he referenced, we determined R and L to be the sounds highly involved in speech errors, so will use it for the above experiment.)

  5. Working on getting PyGazeAnalyser. Basically 0 documentation, but I have hope. Still in prog.

  6. Brainstormed (w. Iris & Chigusa) task AXB online task.

  7. Conducted a college admissions interview... and encountered someone other than Zach who says "MUZAM". Wut Wut Wut.

Maryam

Wednesday

  1. Analyzed definiteness adaptation pilot data

  2. Read a bunch of self-paced reading syntax papers to get an idea of where effects typically pop up

  3. Read a bunch of repetition priming papers, brainstormed ideas for chunk priming follow-ups, meeting with Roger today to discuss

  4. Coded eye tracking models w/ Frank

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