Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 4

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

Florian

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

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