CRL Talks

Fall Quarter 2024

CRL Talks are Friday at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (PST, GMT -08:00) in CSB 280 or via Zoom.

November 8

Peekbank: Building a large-scale infant eye-tracking database to understand the development of word recognition

Martin Zettersten

Cognitive Science Department at University of California, San Diego

What can we learn about from analyzing eye-tracking data from thousands of infants? I will present results from Peekbank (https://peekbank.stanford.edu/), a team science project which aggregates infant eye-tracking data on infant word recognition across many studies to investigate development of word recognition. The talk will focus on three main themes from ongoing work: (1) Aggregating existing data can be powerful for modeling development: by combining data from many experiments, we can overcome the limitations of small, isolated studies to model gradual item-independent changes in online word processing ability across development. (2) Large-scale databases can help researchers make more informed design and modeling decisions: using the Peekbank database, we can systematically explore the impact of a variety of design and modeling decisions, including the effect of selecting longer vs. shorter analysis time windows on establishing reliability. (3) Big data is sometimes not enough: even in the large Peekbank database, word-specific developmental trajectories remain difficult to capture due to high variability within items and idiosyncrasies across individual datasets. Together, these results will highlight opportunities and limitations of current big data approaches to word recognition and infant development, while pointing to future directions that could broaden the usefulness of large-scale databases of infant cognition.

CRL Talks Schedule

Oct 11

The unique behavioral profile of high reading efficiency: Evidence from deaf skilled readers

Elizabeth Schotter

University of South Florida

Oct 25

Learning an Artificial Sign Language: Neural Constraints on Cultural Evolution

Seana Coulson & Tania Delgado

Cognitive Science Department at University of California, San Diego

Nov 8

Martin Zettersten

Nov 16–Nov 17

CAMP7 Meeting

Nov 22

Ben Bergen

Nov 29

No Meeting (Thanksgiving Break)

Dec 6

OPEN

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