Savithry Namboodiripadtaking a moment today to watch my superb student @fbisnath critique “complexity” wrt sign language #typology — and give advice for how to move forward — at an excellent ALT workshop put together by Lina Hou & Erin Wilkinson! https://sites.google.com/view/alt2022/workshops?authuser=0 🤩
Chrissy Cuskley
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Evolutionary linguistics, perception, cognitive science, and social computation. Lecturer, Newcastle University (UK). 🇺🇲 immigrant in 🏴. She/her
Simon E. FisherPlease help spread the word! The International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences in Nijmegen is offering two fully-funded 4-year #PhD fellowships for innovative cutting-edge research projects, spanning a range of disciplines from #genetics & #neuroscience to #psychology & #linguistics. Apply by 2nd Jan 2023, more info here: https://www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fellowships-2023
#language #science
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Sebastian KarcherThis, on race & racism in psych by Steven O. Roberts is very much worth reading (and rightfully causing outrage in psych & beyond).
https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu
The existence of structural racism in academia is hardly a surprise, but the extent and how blatantly it is displayed here is stunning and depressing.
PoPS should be ashamed, and if the editor doesn't resign/get pushed out, anyone on the editorial board with any decency should resign loudly.
https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu
The existence of structural racism in academia is hardly a surprise, but the extent and how blatantly it is displayed here is stunning and depressing.
PoPS should be ashamed, and if the editor doesn't resign/get pushed out, anyone on the editorial board with any decency should resign loudly.
Anna FinleyLooks like this is crashing PsyArXiv, and for good reason. Everyone in psyc and those who have read an article from Perspectives on Psychological Science should read this account by Steven Roberts of his experience of egregious editorial misconduct in a “debate” on diversity and demand PoPS cleans up their act. https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu
Mark DingemanseBy the way, co-first author Christine Cuskley @nerdpro made a cool web app that allows interactive exploration of the data and results: https://ccuskley.site44.com/ColorExplore/colorexplore.html
If you want to have a look at the #opendata yourself, here's the github repository: https://github.com/mdingemanse/colouredvowels#readme
#synaesthesia #crossmodality #colour #CrossmodalAssociations
Some years back we released a treasure trove of #opendata on synaesthesia and cross-modal assocations. Very happy to see it show up in the official release of a new R package for analysing such data https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02007-y — #openscience FTW!
In the original study, we found surprisingly consistent patterns in how people associate vowel sounds with colours, whether they have #synaesthesia or not; and we also found that 'having synaesthesia' may be a matter of degree https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-019-01203-7
synr: An R package for handling synesthesia consistency test data - Behavior Research Methods
Synesthesia is a phenomenon where sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts elicit additional perceptual experiences. For instance, in a commonly studied type of synesthesia, stimuli such as words written in black font elicit experiences of other colors, e.g., red. In order to objectively verify synesthesia, participants are asked to choose colors for repeatedly presented stimuli and the consistency of their choices is evaluated (consistency test). Previously, there has been no publicly available and easy-to-use tool for analyzing consistency test results. Here, the R package synr is introduced, which provides an efficient interface for exploring consistency test data and applying common procedures for analyzing them. Importantly, synr also implements a novel method enabling identification of participants whose scores cannot be interpreted, e.g., who only give black or red color responses. To this end, density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is applied in conjunction with a measure of spread in 3D space. An application of synr with pre-existing openly accessible data illustrating how synr is used in practice is presented. Also included is a comparison of synr’s data validation procedure and human ratings, which found that synr had high correspondence with human ratings and outperformed human raters in situations where human raters were easily mislead. Challenges for widespread adoption of synr as well as suggestions for using synr within the field of synesthesia and other areas of psychological research are discussed.
Justin SulikA recent article in Perspectives on Psych Sci reported a study run on MTurk where the authors identified only 2.6% of their sample as "human" (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221120027). This clashed with the experiences of many people who have used MTurk for ages, and who are thus aware of its problems, but also aware of strategies for maximising data quality. So @nerdpro and I wrote a response (https://psyarxiv.com/w7qy9) ...
Gavin LoganAndor? If I wanted to think about logic gates I’d pay attention at work.
I'm not sure I've mentioned officially here that my dog is excellent so consider yourselves informed.
