Lab News

Feb 11/20 – We’re on social media

You can now follow us on Facebook @ccplinguofa and X @ccpling_uofa, or click on one of the buttons on each page.

Feb 10/20 – New Students

We have a new group of students in Ling 375 and 475 honing their hands-on research skills:

Chloe Webb, Olivia Luces, Andrés Dorado Solarte, Ashton Freed, Tyler Schnoor, Lydia Samis, Anna Ryjenkova, and Taryn Yaceyko (375); Lindsay Chopiuk, Emily Matishak, and Natasha Daley (475)

Mar 17/17 – WoW Article

The CCP lab director, Dr. Juhani Järvikivi, was featured in a news article published by the Faculty of Arts. He introduced the Words in the World (WoW) project and spoke about his own research on language processing. Read the full article here: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/faculty-news/2017/march/words-in-the-world

Feb 27/17 – AAAS Conference

AAAS annual meeting (http://meetings.aaas.org/) is the world largest interdisciplinary scientific conference (with around 8,000 members participants in Boston, US this year) dedicated to the advancement and the public’s understanding of science and technology. In addition to workshops, symposia, plenary sessions, exhibition hall, AAAS meeting also included an interdisciplinary poster session, where Keely and Kaidi presented their work on implicit anaphora resolution, and pupillometry and lexical processing, respectively.

They also had the privilege of meeting Jean Berko Gleason at the Annals of Improbable Research, an entertainment event held one evening at the conference.

Feb 7/17 – STEP Dates and Instructors

The CCP’s Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP) will be held at the University of Alberta from May 15-20, 2017.

Feature instructors include: Shanley E.M. Allen, Debra Titone, Aki-Juhani Kyrolainen, and R. Harald Baayen.

Feb 2/17 – New T-shirts!

Check out our new Child Language Consultant t-shirts! All of the child participants in our studies receive one of these as a thank you for their participation.

Jan 18/17 – New lab members

We are happy to announce four new Ling 375 students: Malieka, Jasmine, Kylee, and Rupi. Please make them feel welcome as they begin their training in the lab.

Nov 28/16 – End of Term SONA Announcement

The final day for student research participation is December 7, 2016. Researchers will be able to post timeslots after this date, however, students who sign up will not receive credits for participating.

Nov 18/16 – CCP Meeting

We’re excited to announce our next CCP meeting presenter, Dr. Lynn McQuarrie. An associate professor in the department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, Dr. McQuarrie investigates factors that affect language and literacy outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing learners and how sign language (ASL) as L1 facilitates learning a spoken/written language (English) as L2. All are welcome to attend the meeting on Friday, November 25 at 1:00 in Arts and Convocation Hall room 103.

Nov 17/16 – New Button Boxes

We’re excited to announce the arrival of 5 new button boxes for the researchers at the CCP! Available for immediate use, they will benefit researchers collecting time-sensitive responses using any of our experimental software, including eprime, experiment builder, or open sesame.

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