Saturday, January 16, 2021

Applications are open for the fifth summer school in statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP)

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The annual summer school, now in its fifth edition, will happen 6-10 Sept 2021, and will be conducted virtually over zoom. The summer school...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

Should statistical data analysis in psychology be like defecating?

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 There was an interesting thread on twitter about linear mixed models (LMMs) that someone made me aware of recently. (I stopped following tw...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

New paper: The effect of decay and lexical uncertainty on processing long-distance dependencies in reading

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The effect of decay and lexical uncertainty on processing long-distance dependencies in reading Kate Stone, Titus von der Malsburg, Shravan ...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

New paper: A Principled Approach to Feature Selection in Models of Sentence Processing

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 A Principled Approach to Feature Selection in Models of Sentence Processing Garrett Smith and Shravan Vasishth Paper downloadable from:  ht...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

How to become a professor in Germany---a unique tutorial

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How to become a Professor in Germany (Online-Seminar) For sign-up details, see here:  https://www.dhvseminare.de/index.php?module=010700...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

New paper: A computational evaluation of two models of retrieval processes in sentence processing in aphasia

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Here is another important paper from my lab, led by my PhD student Paula Lissón , with a long list of co-authors. This paper, which also dep...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

New paper: Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction: A computational evaluation

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This is an important new paper from our lab, led by Dario Paape , and with Serine Avetisyan , Sol Lago , and myself as co-authors.  One thin...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Is it possible to write an honest psycholinguistics paper?

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I'm teaching a new course this semester: Case Studies in Statistical and Computational Modeling. The idea is to revisit published papers...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Zoom link for my talk: Twenty years of retrieval models

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Here is the zoom registration link to my talk at UMass on Sept 25, 21:30 CEST (15:30 UMass time). Title: Twenty years of retrieval models ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Twenty years of retrieval models: A talk at UMass Linguistics (25 Sept 2020)

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I'll be giving a talk at UMass' Linguistics department on 25 September, 2020, over zoom naturally. Talk title and abstract below: ...
Monday, September 07, 2020

Registration open for two statistics-related webinars: SMLP Wed 9 Sept, and Fri 11 Sept 2020

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As part of the summer school in Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, we have organized two webinars that anyone can attend. ...

Jeff Rouder's keynote address at AMLaP 2020: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Individual Differences: Implications for Cognitive Control

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 For various reasons, Jeff Rouder could not present his keynote address live.  Here it is as a recording .  Qua...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Some thoughts on teaching statistics courses online

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  Someone asked to write down how I teach online. Because of corona, I have moved all my courses at the university online, and as a conseque...

Some thoughts on the completely online Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference

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 Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on the carbon cost of conferences: https://vasishth-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/10/estimating-carbon-co...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Two interesting conferences are happening next week at Potsdam (Germany): SAFAL and AMLaP

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 Psycholinguists worldwide will be interested in attending two conferences that are starting online next week. Registration is free for both...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Summer school: Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, 2020

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 The summer school website has been updated with the materials (lecture notes, exercises, and videos) for the Introductory frequentist and B...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Two keynote lectures at the Fourth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, 7-11 September 2020

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 We have two interesting zoom talks at the SMLP summer school, which is being held fully online this year. In my next post, I will be posti...
Saturday, April 04, 2020

Developing the right mindset for learning statistics: Some suggestions

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Developing the right mindset for learning statistics: Some suggestions Devel...