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December 2017
Talk: Reference in Situated Language Comprehension (Everything you always wanted to know about pronouns, but were lucky enough not to ask)
This Wednesday, December 6, the Words in the World Partnered Training Research Initiative is hosting a Language / Psycholinguistics talk by Dr. Juhani Järvikivi (Words in the World Co-Principal Investigator, University of Alberta) in the Centre for Lifespan Development at Brock University. Coffee and cookies to follow! DATE & TIME: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 | 3:00 pm LOCATION: Plaza 600F, Brock University SPEAKER: Dr. Juhani Järvikivi (Dept. of Linguistics, University ofAlberta) ABSTRACT Pronouns - those little words like it, that,…
Find out more »CAM 2017: Current Approaches to Morphology
The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta are organizing a workshop on Current Approaches to Morphology and are delighted to invite you all to join! This is a one-day event being held on Wednesday December 20th from 8:30am-5:30pm in the TELUS Building Room 134. The programme includes two plenary talks by James P. Blevins (University of Cambridge) and Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen), as well as various presentations on theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches to morphological phenomena in a variety of languages. There is no registration fee, but please fill…
Find out more »January 2018
L2 Vocabulary Workshop: Aline Godfroid @ McMaster University
The Reading Lab at McMaster will be hosting a 3-hour workshop by Aline Godfroid (Michigan State University) on January 25, 2018. Visitors are welcome to visit the workshop in person at the BSB (Burke Science Building) Room 117, from 9:30 - 12:30 (abstract follows below). Video will also be streamed via Facebook Live on the Words in the World Facebook page. During the workshop, we will be trying out some online tests and using some apps. To save time, participants can…
Find out more »April 2018
Brock University & SHARCNet: EEG Analysis Workshop
This EEG analysis workshop is designed to give researchers who are familiar with ERP projects an opportunity to get hands on experience exploring advanced EEG analysis methods in a collaborative setting. This five day workshop will focus on the following topics: Traditional ERP analysis, scoring methods, strengths and weaknesses. ERPs and single trials; Introduction to EEGLAB: ERP processing, artifact detection, ERP visualization; robust statistics applied to ERPs Moving past the time domain: Time-frequency decompositions, ERSPs and inter-trial phase coherence. Moving…
Find out more »May 2018
Workshop: How to gain insight into reading processes
Dr. Raymond Bertram of the University of Turku is leading this one-day workshop on "How to gain insight into reading processes – recreating (or improving) eye-tracking studies from the Turku eye-movement lab.” The event is hosted by Co-Applicant Dr. Victor Kuperman and The Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics at McMaster University, and will run from 10am – 4pm at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Room TBA). The workshop will include lecture components, experimental design breakout groups, and…
Find out more »STEP@CCP 2018
STEP@CCP will be held at the University of Alberta in May 2018, the week before the Victoria Day long weekend. The Spring School is directed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students and anyone else interested in learning how to make their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods. More information about the Spring School, including courses offered and registration information, can be found at the STEP@CCP 2018 homepage, here.…
Find out more »September 2018
11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon
Save the date! The next International Conference on the Mental Lexicon will be held at the University of Alberta Sept. 25 - 28, 2018.
Find out more »May 2019
Brock University & SHARCNet: EEG Analysis Workshop
Lectures and hands-on sessions presented by Sid Segalowitz, James Desjardins, and Stefon van Noordt. This EEG analysis workshop is designed to give researchers who are familiar with ERP projects an opportunity to get hands on experience exploring advanced EEG analysis methods in a collaborative setting. Over the five days of the workshop, we focus on the following topics with the schedule more or less as outlined: 1- Traditional ERP analysis, scoring methods (intro to ERPScore), strengths and weaknesses. 2- ERPs…
Find out more »STEP@CCP 2019
The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop in current issues and methods in psycholinguistics. It will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, May 13-18, 2019. The Spring School is directed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods. Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta,…
Find out more »March 2020
How to collect psycholinguistic data from home: Introduction to crowdsourcing tools
"How to collect psycholinguistic data from home: Introduction to crowdsourcing tools" Host: Victor Kuperman Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. EST (GMT -4) Ability to collect experimental data outside of the lab is of great importance for reaching out to populations outside of university convenience subject pools. This importance is even greater when lab testing is undesirable. This first session of "open office hours" will introduce rich possibilities for data collection using crowdsourcing tools like…
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