Great tips for helping participants enjoy your studies - and a pathway to better data!

Another tip is to think about whether your task’s structure leads participants to expect certain kinds of questions or actions. @VanjaKovic and I call this “experimental pragmatics”
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https://twitter.com/EvershedJo/status/1526866665597718528

@VanjaKovic Once, we ran a study where TWO THIRDS of our participants responded weirdly😱 Turns out that they read the instructions, but the task itself led them to expect something different - They thought we made a mistake in the instructions, so they ignored them!
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Ah I really enjoyed being Discussant for today’s symposium at #SPR2022 @TheRealSPR
It’s a joy to bring these three projects together and talk about the challenges of research using high dimensional neuro data and some pathways to doing better!
1/ @VanjaKovic led us off with an intro to the three great projects being brought together for this syposium, highlighting their focus on building open communities to advance research

Very excited to share this work led by @hannahlgoh with @LucaOnnis2
Can bilinguals’ of a language with one type of retroflex (in fricatives and affricates) learn to hear a different kind of retroflex (in stop consonants)? Can they transfer their perceptual skills?

https://twitter.com/hannahlgoh/status/1574974975798235137

What’s a retroflex? A speech sound that is pronounced with the tip of the tongue flipped over a bit, like in this diagram (the purple line). In some languages there are phoneme contrasts where changing the shape of your tongue like this makes a difference in what word you say!

Join us at #SIPS2022 tomorrow to help make rock solid tools for transparent neuroscience!
We believe the right kind of tools can make methods reporting smoother and less error-prone.
We’ll introduce the ARTEM-IS Web-App (beta) for you to try, and we can work on improving it! 🧵

https://twitter.com/ufangyang/status/1541096281963200513

Accurate methods reporting is super important because different processing pathways can lead to different results, as we’ve shown in one multiverse analysis of N400s 🤔
(see how the Related version Reversed comparison has different outcomes in different pathways)

So pleased to see our first report of translanguaging in child-directed speech as a poster at #WILD2022!
Since our Corpus team couldn't travel to San Sebastian, our fab lab-mate Han will be standing by to answer questions during the poster session at 16:40 CEST) today👇and also..

https://twitter.com/hankepsy/status/1535193265573707776

..in a bit of an experiment, I'll also be standing by for any Q&A about methods, transcription protocols, how on earth we managed 92% retention rate for the 143 children in the sample (8m to 4y), over three picture-narration tasks spanning 4-6 months!

🪄Experiments in Lecturing🪄

In a few hot minutes I have the great pleasure to deliver a plenary lecture at ‘New Horizons in Education’ for the University of Belgrade. I’ll be talking about “De-Centering the Professor” with a focus on diversity and access 😃
1/ It’s exciting because I really take seriously the idea that teachers are quite different from the vast majority of the students in our classes, so I want to share some strategies for making the class better for people who aren’t US
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My students often ask me what they can read to expand their knowledge around the core course content in psych.

Behold! My list of general interest books - just in time to plan what to pack in your beach-bag 🌴📚⛱

padlet.com/suzystyles/bea… (pic description: a beach scene with large text: “BEACH-BRAIN BOOKS”)

#childlang friends!
Milestone:📣 @bliplab's ✨heroic✨ multilingual team have passed the 300 transcription mark!

We used an onscreen wordless strybookbook to collect over 400 parent-child conversations on video calls. Look at this amazing progress! T1 and T2 almost complete! @bliplab We described our #LockdownScience methods in this paper, where we talk about conducting the study online, and the strategies we used to keep our 142 parents engaged over the three time points (Retention rates: 96% to T2; 92% to T3). 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Deep breaths everybody it’s not quite a Nature paper, but it is …
Nature | Scientific Reports 🥳🎊
Same-same but different?😅

This is the first paper from @panlei95 ‘s doctoral work, collaborating with @hankepsy together we … 1/

OA: nature.com/articles/s4159… We created a kid-friendly perception task where people are asked which word they heard out of a simple illustrated pair like ‘peach’ and ‘beach’. The monkey is in the middle deciding what to do (eat a peach, or go to the beach), and people listen to a sound before deciding.

I’m co-teaching Cognitive Psych for the first time in *years*. What with growing recognition of WEIRD+ biases in psych, it didn’t seem right to just teach the studies in the textbook without some broader context… so here’s where we started last week 1/ We’re studying in Singapore, so it is super important that our students know the research they are reading about might not align with their own experiences or certain aspects of their cognitive processing

@angelasoskic @AnnaLSchubert @AcademicEEG @bioDGPs_DGPA @clayson_peter @VanjaKovic @EmilyKappenman Ah! There it is - Thanks @angelasoskic 😃 @angelasoskic @AnnaLSchubert @AcademicEEG @bioDGPs_DGPA @clayson_peter @VanjaKovic @EmilyKappenman We’ll be sure to share the preprint link in a few days’ time too

@KaleeHolland @SIGPerspectives Oh gosh no this isn’t true anatomically.
Linguists who focus on the physiology of spoken language talk about different ‘phonation types’ at the glottis - that is, different ways of letting air pass between the fleshy membranes that are the vocal folds 1/… @KaleeHolland @SIGPerspectives The ‘modal phonation’ is the type where the air pressure coming from the lungs is balanced with the tension of the vocal folds, so that as the air pushes the vocal folds apart, their tension pulls them back together. They open and close evenly along the length in a regular cycle

@SysMot @acaguy yes correct! it’s awful
I was taught this was a ‘good’ teaching strategy, but it is really… combative. It also relies on student unease to move the class forward… I prefer strategies that lower barriers to participation and help everyone enjoy a stress-free class 🧵 @SysMot @acaguy 1. When students don’t want to volunteer answers in case they are wrong i use techniques like the Pass the Paper Quiz to help lower the stress of wrong answers, and show how even a guess can be a good starting point for discussion
(Open Access here)
doi.org/10.21979/N9/OJ…

🧵On plagiarism + #HiddenCurriculum

Once I received an essay 90% copied from Wikipedia, and called the student for a meeting. I always start with two actions:

👉🏻I show a printout of the Turnitin report and explain that’s why we are meeting

👉🏻I ask if the student is OK Often, if someone was just ‘blagging’ their way through or thought they wouldn’t get caught, when I ask this question I get a blank stare, or a nervous laugh, or like, wat?

#EEG tweeps - Have we got news for you! First off our preprint about the ARTEM-IS project is now out for consultation!
psyarxiv.com/myn7t We show that as more and more EEG papers are published, more and more reporting guidelines are published... but the publication of more and more detailed guidelines doesn’t make a difference to the errors, omissions and ambiguities in the methods sections of published papers. 2/

Here at @BLIPLabNTU we have been super busy untangling pattens of language use and language development in multilingual Singapore. 1/
#multilingualisnormal 2020 was a challenging year for everyone, and continuing our work with families was complicated. We developed a tonne of new tools and new methods for working with families remotely. 2/

With the shift to online teaching I’ve been setting #OA #scicomms Infographics as projects so the whole class can share their learning out into the world!

It’s super fun and helps undergrads learn about image rights and visual plagiarism
🧵 The manual gives general info about #scicomms goals, and how they relate to an assessable academic output

Greetings gentleboubas!
This is such a fun thread and i am massively enjoying it 😁
I don’t know if I qualify as ‘proper’ but I love a good bouba/kiki effect...

https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1327161084671889408

Many of us know the ol’ bouba/kiki effect - the idea that when we are shown two shapes, and we are given two names, there’s huge agreement over which name ‘goes best’ with which of the pictures...

I think there are sneaky tricks going on here...
Hold tight... OK, so I have downloaded the video from Reddit and stripped the audio using VLC player. Now that it's an MP3 we can analyse the audio using the method outlined in my little tutorial...

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