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Babies Learning Language: An update on automatic belief encoding
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Friday, May 1, 2015. An update on automatic belief encoding. Last fall I wrote about our experiences. Investigating a very influential paper about automatic mind reading. While they didn't post the full video set, we were nevertheless able to modify the videos to create the necessary conditions and rerun our experiment. And here ...
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Babies Learning Language: A one-trial replication of Chemla & Spector (2011)
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Monday, June 29, 2015. A one-trial replication of Chemla and Spector (2011). Tl;dr: Replication of a somewhat controversial finding in experimental semantics/pragmatics. How do we go beyond the literal semantics of what someone says to infer what they actually meant? In fact, I taught an entire course on this topic. Then they ask...
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Babies Learning Language: Engineering the National Children's Study
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Engineering the National Children's Study. The National Children's Study. Following a highly critical report. From the National Academy of Sciences that criticized a number of aspects of the study including its leadership and its sampling plan. According to recent reports, though, NCS may be restarted.
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Babies Learning Language: January 2015
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Tuesday, January 6, 2015. On "training" your children. Tl;dr: Analysis of rhetoric from a parenting column. Why, brain, why? The columnist, Meghan Leary. A parenting coach) advocates letting the child get in bed with the parents, which is after all what the child wants in the first place. Although we sleep trained with M. So, whe...
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Babies Learning Language: Team up or slow down!
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Monday, March 23, 2015. Team up or slow down! This post is a draft of a talk I gave at SRCD last week, in a round-table discussion organized by Melanie Soderstrom on the topic of standardizing infancy methods.). The power on a test is the probability that the test will reject the null (at p. 75 That's a big effect, by most standa...
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Babies Learning Language: March 2015
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Estimating p(replication) in a practical setting. Tl;dr - an estimate of the proportion of recent psychology findings that can be reproduced by an early-stage graduate student and some thoughts about the consequences of that estimate. A couple of years ago. An additional benefit of this framework – ...
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Babies Learning Language: New postdoc opportunity
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Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly. Friday, July 10, 2015. Update as of September, 2015: Position is now filled.). My lab, the Language and Cognition Lab in the Psych Department at Stanford, is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a new project. We anticipate that this work will involve experiments with both adults and children. Start date is flexible (though f...
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