Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 7

We'll discuss this paper:

Mirjam Keetels, Mauro Pecoraro, Jean Vroomen. (2015). Recalibration of auditory phonemes by lipread speech is ear-specific. Cognition, 141, Pages 121-126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.04.019. PDF

Dave will lead discussion

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

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Received comments from Lissa about Masha's paper on case-marking vs. constituent order. Resubmitted this week.

2. Edited through editorial letter for Karuza et al. Submitted to JEP:General last week.

3. Edited some minor final things for Fine and Jaeger. Resubmitted to JEP:LMC last week.

4. Gave talk at DETEC. Slides available on request. Got some of the usual questions and a lot of good discussion. Several people were particularly interested in hearing more about how to extend the adaptation work we've been doing to second language acquisition. DETEC was a fun crowd and the next one will be co-organized by Geertje van Bergen, who visited us last year. It'll take place in 2 years in Berlin.

5. Met with Terry Nearey (U of Alberta) and had a great chat about normalization and multilevel models (in both the statistical data analysis sense and the cognitive model sense). He sent me a lot of references, many of which are relevant to what we're working on. Ask me if you're interested and I'll forward you what he sent me.

6. Participated in a long FB discussion --initiated by Alex Fine-- about the new article by Doug Bates and others on why one should not always keep it maximal.

Kodi

1. Continued writing/revising encyclopedia article on speech perception and cross-talker generalization
2. Did a lot of reading about normalization accounts across the decades

3. Edited a paper for JEP:HPP on perceptual adaptation to foreign-accented speech

4. Met with various lab/BCS members to learn about their on-going projects
5. Secured an office space (hoozah!)

Andrew

1. Made lab website HTTPS everywhere.

Olga

1. Met with Lauren about the SONA system. Figured out how to log into the HLP lab ra account (Should document this somewhere). Did another REDcap training.
2. Submitted an amendment for a flyer. Made changes to said flyer with Lauren. Waiting to hear back
3. Met with Zach and collected information for a wiki page. Will update this wiki page this week
4. Continued with the Tutorial template. Got the Java script code working for the navigation bar. (Thanks Zach for the help!)

Esteban

Dave

1. Nearly final version of paper on selective adaptation and distributional learning.
2. Implemented hybrid functional/anatomical ROI analysis for animals category learning.

3. Added prediction to logistic regression code for web experiments.

4. Did a bunch of reading about numeric methods for solving GLMMs. It's more complicated than I thought

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Met with Val to talk about what needs to be done for her study, what I needed her to do with my data, etc
2. Talked with Chigusa about the current state of affairs with my set of studies
3. Asked Olga to make some edits to images for a new version of the mammals task
4. Emailed Mike and Chigusa the prelim findings from the production version of mammals
5. Edited a part of Migusa's grant
6. Completed a bunch of administrative tasks (e.g., turning in receipts, booking flights, paying fees, etc) for summer conferences

Zach

1. Edited this page on Friday. Say whaaaaaaaaat!?

2. Helped Olga make some changes on the wiki, and beat back the beast that is javascript
3. Coded up some stuff for the Kamide study and the ICA study
4. Went back and reworked a lot of the code behind my accent modeling stuff

5. Found out how to use the PyPy interpreter on my IDE. My gigantic Python monstrosities are now a bajillion times faster, but like any self-conscious mad scientist, I wonder how stable/reliable my creation is. It seems to be processing floats..."differently"?

Linda

1. Heard back from Sarah Fenwick (from UWS) about obtaining materials for future online adaptation studies. It looks like they have 6 M/ 6 F speakers for 5 different accents.
2. Modified pen in mouth study to run with pre-test.
3. Added a script for deleting hits and awarding bonuses in boto.
4. Talked to Chelsea about getting a key for Lauren so she can access the office after hrs (for recording purposes). Briefly sat in on Lauren's recording session to make sure everything was going well.
5. Went through images for syntax study to check for proto-typically.

Maryam

1. Recorded three new speakers for 5-speaker condition of experiment
2. Did more reading for review paper
3. Realized stimuli prep for experiment was going to need to be revised
4. Met with Kodi and discussed our writing projects

5. Met with Florian & Chigusa about review paper