• LabmeetingSU16w5

Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 5

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

• Gatt, A., Krahmer, E., van Deemter, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2016). Reference Production as Search: The Impact of Domain Size on the Production of Distinguishing Descriptions. Cognitive Science, 1–36. doi:10.1111/cogs.12375 - AP

  • note: I might hate this paper, I'll know by the end of the weekend. BUT if you're keeping track, this is the group of researchers that I think are asking interesting questions, but do slightly unsatisfactory work. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I should go about navigating making suggestions / providing feedback / turning things into a collaboration, so that my frustrations can end, I'd happily take it.

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited paper on uncertainty maintenance with Klinton and Mike T, which was fun. I think we're almost ready to resubmit.

2. Wrote and presented two presentations at University of Stockholm. One in linguistics, one in psychology.

3. Feedback on paper on nasal coarticulation with Thurbull, Seyfarth, and Hume.

4. Feedback on design for study on hyper-articulation in Armenian to Scott Seyfarth.

5. Feedback on Guillermo's post-doc plans.

6. Met with Lauren, Madeline, and Wes to talk about their research plans and current study assignments. Esteban, don't you need additional annotators?

7. Looked at Kodi and Linda's CUNY poster and got excited about that project on accent adaptation again. Really cool. I'm going to present some of it at Stockholm.

8. Declined 1 review.

Andrew

1. Walked Zach through running his first HIT on MTurk

2. Created Git Basics tutorial for RA meeting (slides in process)

3. Got RA lab meeting wiki pages set up, including a weekly meeting template like this one but with the RA names: RAMeetingWeekTemplate

4. Did RA photoshoot with Dan and Olga, then got the pictures added to the lab website

5. Worked on CrowdExp

Olga

1. Updated the definitions that people sent me for the tutorial. Please define more! I would greatly appreciate it
2. Updating the tutorial bit by bit. Thinking what I should make the shiny app be like. Will try to get around to it next week
3. Organized the photo shoot so we now have head shots of the RAs for our website! They look so nice! Thanks Dan.
4. Got an on-site interview. Wo0o0o0o!

Esteban

Dave

1. (Traveling)
2. Analyzed second VOT distributional learning data (plotting boundaries) and write out discussion of results
3. Analyzed vowel production data subsampling talkers to control for different group sizes, make plots etc.

Dan

Amanda

1. Started working on my NSF DDRI application. Please, wish me luck, because it's going to be a logn soul-searching month's work.

   • tried to think about how my research ties together (need to piece it into a cohesive story other than: "priors: what are they? what role do they play? where do they come from?")
   • almost convinced myself to open my old grant writing doc
   • worried in general about getting some of my projects up and running / time management with grant writing vs. study design
2. Met with Wes to plan our summer / set goals for working on his project for this year - 2nd stab at supervising a student going slightly better.
3. Taught some hard scientists about some major themes in Language Science research as part of the RMSC project I'm working on. They were so engaged that they forgot that they were supposed to be giving me a hard time (like a 6 year old kid, or a bored teenager). So, small win for language scientists.
4. Remembered my love of math and programming in the first week of Kinder Koders (we're learning how to program in python together).
5. Recorded new puppet videos for a new version of my kid task, and sent an edited video to Chigusa to approve / reject.
6. Picked a set of papers that need reading, and am totally going to read them this week. For real though.
7. Emailed Steve to tell him that I'll be auditing his information theory class, because I want to.
8. Moved the Kinder Lab wiki to google sites, because it permits you to share the page with a specific set of users. Added links to some helpful tutorials and things.
9. Thought about working more on my Qualtrics Tutorial. It was a brief think, because there were more things that needed doing. But, I'll eventually get back to it.

Zach

1. Baby's first MTurk experiment (Pupillometry C&G stuff)

2. Worked on implementing Dave's "put your data in an R package" thing
3. Developed sanity checks for the pilot pupillometry data (good thing too, because there were mistakes!)
4. Gittin' good it git

5. Fixed some errors in the C&G code

6. Getting the RAs rallied appropriately / managing stimuli
7. Running baby's second MTurk experiment (correcting earlier mistakes)
8. Remade stimuli for TT experiment.

Linda

1. Got back from China
2. Caught up on a million emails.
3. Worked on compiling quals reading list.
4. More writing and analysis for pen in the mouth.

Wednesday

1. Tried in vain to find some explanation for weird effects in my data
2. Wrote (more like outlined) more of paper
3. Thought about other experiments that would address questions that have come up while writing...