A hearty congrats to grad student Nyssa Bulkes, who just received the award for best student poster at this year’s Mental Lexicon Conference! She was presenting her eye tracking work on anticipation, word recognition, and idiom comprehension in L1 and…
Congrats to grad students Nyssa Bulkes and Kailen Shantz who have recently had papers accepted for publication! Nyssa’s paper, published in Behavior Research Methods discusses a new norming database of English idioms, and can be found here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13428-016-0747-8 Kailen’s paper, published in…
Congrats to our recent undergraduate Jack Dempsey who has accepted a position at a full time lab manager at the Penn State Center for Language Science. Jack will be working with psychologists and linguists and aspects of bilingualism and cognition.…
Congrats to undergrad RA Rebekah Seyfert, who won the UIUC Department of Linguistics award for outstanding undergraduate student for 2015-16! Rebekah is a graduating senior who has been with us for three semesters, and has made great contributions to the…
A hearty congrats to Nyssa Bulkes, Ph.D. student in the ELP lab, who has been awarded a highly-competitive Beckman graduate fellowship for her interdisciplinary work focusing on context effects and prediction in visual word recognition. Cheers, Nyssa!
Check out our response to the reply by Maess and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute on our paper on high-pass filtering pitfalls in ERP research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027016000030
ELPers will be active on the conference circuit this fall. Here’s what we’ve got on tap: October 15-17: Neurobiology of Language Conference (Chicago, IL): Kailen Shantz and Darren Tanner “Talking out of order: does grammatical gender always precede phonology in…
The first data from the ELP lab are published and ready for the world! The paper was co-authored by lab director Darren Tanner and grad student Nyssa Bulkes, and investigated how cues to agreement dependencies differ in language production and…
Nyssa Bulkes’ doctoral dissertation grant proposal has been recommended for funding by the NSF Linguistics program. Nyssa will be using ERPs and eye tracking to investigate the processing of non-literal and formulaic expressions in native and nonnative populations. CONGRATS,…
Grad student Nyssa Bulkes has been awarded a Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence award from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology to pursue a project related to prediction, sentential constraint, and visual word recognition in native and non-native reading, in…