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Nyssa Bulkes’ NSF grant proposal recommended for funding!

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,

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Nyssa Bulkes awarded a Beckman Institute CS/AI award

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

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New paper in Psychophysiology on the dangers of high-pass filtering in ERPs

ELPlab PI Darren Tanner and colleagues Kara Morgan-Short at UIC and Steve Luck at UC-Davis have a paper just made available online in Psychphysiology. We show how commonly used filters in ERP research can actually lead to spurious results and

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Happy end of semester!

The semester is winding down, so the ELPers thought it was only fitting to get together and gorge ourselves on some tasty food at Golden Harbor.  Happy summer!  

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Pictures from Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.

We had another great trip — this time to the CUNY conference held at USC in Los Angeles and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference. Exhausting, but fun, educational, and inspiring. We got to make lots of new acquaintances, and see

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CUNY abstracts accepted!

Two abstracts from the ELP Lab have been accepted for presentation at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence processing, to be held in March at the University of Southern California. Nyssa Bulkes wil be presenting her poster entitled “Agreement by

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