Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 6

Read Chodroff, E., and Wilson, C. (2016) Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English. Journal of Phonetics, 61, pp. 30-47

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

1. More reason to use the zplyr package: I made a function that makes a sliding contrast coding matrix in the style of contr.helmert, zplyr::contr.slide!

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Outlined plan for collaboration with Rachel Smith. We've been going back and forth and I think there might be enough data to address the questions we discussed during the joint lab meeting. Let me know if you're interested in more, and I'll keep you in the loop.

2. Wrote:

   • alternative intro for Lizz's paper on processing and learning of statistical patterns in sequential inputs.

   • kept working on application for Alexander von Humboldt stipend for experienced researchers.

3. LT:

   • Recruited reviews for first paper I'm AEing.

4. Feedback:

   • on Linda's talk for board of trustees.
   • on Masha's paper on dependency length.

5. Letters: 4 (1 new one)

   • completed and submitted(!) a nomination I had been working on for quite some time.
   • completed a third-year review.

Xin

1. Collected data for Exp.4 for BCS206 and went through several rounds of analyses (controlling for training baseline performance).
2. Prepared materials, ran experiment, analyzed data (N =50) for MTurk replication of the priming study (my design).
3. Met with RAs individually to go through the ideas behind the studies that they helped with (BB08 annotation and priming).
4. Revision of the cross-talker generalizations ms.

Andrew

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

1. Found out that I'm giving a talk in Naples, Florida for the Board of Trustees event! Mad scramble to book plane tickets and figure out other logistical details for said talk. They told me Friday and wanted to arrange things/answers immediately. Put together short bio + brainstormed talk ideas.
2. Worked on perception presentation on perceptual learning for this week.
3. Finished preprocessing new Bradlow and Bent data. Filled up all the cells will full participants! Writing Exp 2 up since we have all the data now.
4. Piloted some gesture stimuli in RA mtg this week.
5. Homework + writing + reading for Raj's class, and for grant writing class.
6. Set up participants for subtitle experiment.

Wednesday

1. Analyzed data from NRT project pilot experiment
2. Thought about ditransitive data, wrote skeleton outline of CUNY talk
3. Started prepping CSP 519 lab
4. Cog neuro, perception, NRT reading/homework

Shaorong

1. Worked on perception & motor presentation.

2. Revised specific aims for grant writing
3. Reading papers on ERP components
4. Finally finalizing on what we want to use as model input for the NRT project