The talk is based on a paper led by @dariopaape.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The workshop is based on our book led by @bruno-nicenboim.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy : www.routledge.com/Introduction...
Excited to share that @shravanvasishth.bsky.social will be visiting @princeton.edu virtually tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7)
🗣️ Talk: "Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian Approach" 12:00 PM ET
🛠️Workshop: "Theory-Informed Model Specification" 11:00 AM ET
The zoom is open to all!
I'm giving a talk over zoom tomorrow at Princeton, their noon. Before that, I will give a workshop on multinomial processing trees. Details here:
psych.princeton.edu/news-events/...
I have extended the deadline to 3 April 6PM Central European Time, as there was some confusion about when exactly applications close.
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the tenth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Aug 24-28, 2026, in Potsdam, Germany):
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
Ever since Microsoft took over github they keep messing up the workflow. I have to go manually switch off their stupid Actions (which they enable by default), which breaks my websites for my data and other resources. WTF?
I'm betting the author(s) is/are famous. Something similar happened to me as a reviewer with a tabloid journal of great fame (no manipulation of data, just a trivial study that showed nothing that five mins of introspection would not yield). The lead author was too big to fail.
Our book also made a similar amount (divided over three authors).
LOL; we ourselves (me included) just forgot to anonymize a response letter. @mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Yes, I have also done that in the past and nothing happened. Of course, technically it breaks the anonymity, but I am actually unsure about the value of anonymity. Author names is valuable prior information for a reviewer (but it might penalize new people, I have to admit).
Authors sometimes forget to anonymize the code :). So double-blind doesn't really work.
I would ask the editor or look at their web page to see what their policy is. That said, usually even with double blind articles that I review, I can quite often easily guess who the authors are.
Apparently @planetmoney.bsky.social does not know the difference between reproducing an analysis using the provided code and data, and replicating an experiment's results with a new experiment:
www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
New open-access paper with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: "Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling" doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
New preprint led by Pia Schoknecht:
Local coherence effects are task sensitive: Evidence from event-related potentials in German
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It is pure torture. That's probably why I felt compelled to become a linguist.
At best it has two interpretations, which is what is bugging me. The interpretation that jumps out at me and bugs me:
Talks can not be short -> It is possible to set up a talk such that it is not short.
Of course, the rest of the post makes it clear what the interpretation is, but still...
The distinction between "cannot" and "can not" completely changes the meaning of the sentence :)
It always bugs me when people write can not when they really mean cannot. I want to shout: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? :)
The content is less than 200 pages. My book, published by the same publisher in 2021, which is a bit longer, costs 28 Euros for the digital edition. Why the big discrepancy in price?
122 Euros for the digital edition? Really?
New preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We jointly model reading data from four tasks (SPR, BSPR, eye tracking, Maze) with a latent-process mixture, and find that it outperforms LLM surprisal in terms of predictive fit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open:
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
Oral interactive discussion with instructor without any notes or electronic aids. Time-consuming but effective.
Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
Here is your chance to weigh in on what the psycholinguistic and machine learning community needs regarding preprocessing pipelines, software tools, and data sharing standards for eye-tracking research: An anonymous survey that lasts just 10-15 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/
Keynote speakers in 2026: Dale Barr and Lisa DeBruine.
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open:
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
a rare sighting of all three authors of The Book, all in one place:
New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.