Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 1

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

• The pitfall of experimenting on the web: How unattended selective attrition leads to surprising (yet false) research conclusions --alw

What we did over last week

Florian

1. To do:
   • Talk about possibility of collaboration/visit to Paola Escudero’s lab.
   • Talk about Kavli workshop
2. Grants:
   • No-cost extension to NSF
   • REU submitted and funded to NSF
   • Rejected: new NSF proposal
3. Application for leave: 07/2017-06/2018
4. Presented:
   • Plenary SST satellite workshop about Bayesian approach to phonology.
   • UC Irvine about inference under uncertainty in speech production and perception.
   • Macquarie University about inference under uncertainty in speech production and perception.
5. Read application files and decided on invitations for next year
6. Grading
7. Letters
   • Faculty jobs: 20ish (2)
   • Internships: 11 (2)
   • Fellowships: 1 (1)
8. Reviews
   • CUNY

   • Agreed to review for CogSci

9. Reminders sent out about planning papers
   • Zach
   • Wednesday (replied)
   • Linda (replied and acted)
10. Quals
    • Prepped and graded: Linda
    • Prepped and graded: Shaorong
    • Feedback on idea: Zach
11. Edited

    • Liu & Jaeger on causal inference in speech perception (x2)

    • Liu, Xie, Weatherholtz, & Jaeger on accent adaptation

    • Yan & Jaeger on unsupervised adaptation in speech perception (x3)

    • Thurnbull, Seyfarth, Hume & Jaeger on assimilation in conversational speech

12. Reports:
    • annual COI
    • annual travel disclosure
    • annual faculty report (ca. 5h)
    • annual NSF report (ca. 2 days)
13. Planned
    • Kavli Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience:
      • almost all speakers invited
      • most of them confirmed
14. Feedback on:
    • Scott Seyfarth’s paper on assimilation (x2)
    • Shaorong’s studies on speech adaptation
    • Wednesday and Klinton’s project on uncertainty in spoken word recognition
    • Zach’s thesis and qual topic proposal(s)
    • Thomas Hoberg’s paper idea
    • Chigusa’s NSF proposal
    • Xin’s job talk abstract

Xin

Andrew

1. Added Florian's 2016 publications for his annual NIH report
2. Added same publications to the lab publications page
3. Did the RSRB Continuing Review for Adaptation

4. Helped Jenn get ExBuilder stuff set up on the Kurumada lab

Jenn

1. Sent out poll and set up meeting time for this semester
2. Contacted future guests to the HLP Lab (mainly who are coming in the month of Feb) regarding specific times to visit
3. Set up Ex-Builder for artificial language study on new desktop in our Eye-Tracking room (Kurumada lab) with help of Andrew

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Wednesday

Shaorong