Friend of the lab, Helen Schmidt, has won the big one for a PhD statement — an NIH NRSA F31 fellowship! Congratulations to Helen and her mentor Dr. Chelsea Helion on this awesome accomplishment. We are going to be working with Helen on her aims of analyzing evoked Heart Rate variability.
YUGE Semantic Consensus Paper Accepted at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Our 100+ page theoretical review paper representing a 50+ author effort at producing a semantic glossary was recently accepted. Be on the lookout for:
Reilly J, Shain C, Borghesani V, Kuhnke P, Vigliocco G, Peelle JE, Mahon B, Buxbaum L, Majid A, Brysbaert M, Borghi A, De Deyne S, Dove G, Papeo L, Pexman P, Poeppel D, Lupyan G, Boggio P, Hickok G, Gwilliams L, Fernandino L, Mirman D, Chrysikou EG, Sandberg C, Crutch SJ, Pylkkänen L, Yee E, Jackson R, & Rodd J, Bedny M, Connell L, Kiefer M, Kemmerer D, Zubicaray G, Jefferies E, Lynott D, Siew C, Desai RH, Cantlon J, McRae K, Diaz M, Bolognesi M, Fedorenko E, Kiran S, Montefinesse M, Binder JR, Yap M, Hartwigsen G, Bi Y, Hoffman, P, Garcea F, & Vinson D (2024, in press). What we mean when we say semantic: A multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Commentary alert! Ageism and political attacks in the 2024 US Presidential Election
Be on the lookout for Jamie’s commentary in the pitfalls of political attacks on aging, language, and memory disorders, titled:
Reilly J (2024, in press). Neuropsychology and political mudslinging collide in the 2024 US Presidential election: Pitfalls of weaponizing age, language, and memory. Journal of Neuropsychology.
Jamie interviewed on WCBS - cognitive testing, dementia, and memory disorders in the 2024 US presidential election
Radio still exists! The short message from this interview is that nobody should publicly take a cognitive screening tool like the MoCA.
celebrate the small things
It’s no Publisher’s Clearing House big check, but we’re still proud of this little paper that could.
New article in Emotion
Some unsavory characters have accused Jamie Reilly of having no emotions. Although he can neither confirm nor deny this harsh allegation, one thing is certain. Jamie was recently a co-author on an article published in the journal, Emotion. Be on the lookout for:
*Kelly AE, Kennett YN, Medaglia JD, Reilly J, Dudhat P & Chrysikou EG (2024). Conceptual structure of emotions. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001327
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Sayers
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Sayers - newly minted PhD ready to DESTROY language and short-term memory research. Shift your paradigms, people, because this man is out there!
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR EXHANGE HAPPENING!
Dr. Ana Matic Skoric will be joining us at Temple University in Fall 2024 from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) on a Fulbright Scholar Exchange to study aging and language in our lab. She has worked so hard to get this! Coordinating research plans, sponsor statements, panel interviews, and US government red tape has been an arduous process. SHE DID IT.
Jamie's interview in USA Today on inferring dementia in Trump and Biden from speech
Click on the photo to link to the story
Jamie Reilly appointed to editorial board of Aphasiology
3 years of editorial bliss on the horizon for Jamie, who will be serving on the editorial board of the journal, Aphasiology.
Happy 2024 Everyone!
Lots to look forward in the lab this year. Lucia Pattullo will be starting with us as a PhD student. We are getting a new dry EEG rig. Our conversation alignment algorithms are working and producing some very cool results. We are excited for everything to come!
Lucia Pattullo MA thesis defense coming up!
Our USA Presidential Debates R package is live
Text miners, NLP geeks, and dialogue analysts - we have got a treat for you. Click <here> to learn more about this R package representing televised two-party debate transcripts in the United States from 1960 to the president. I am not a crook!
Dewitt Fortenberry wins 2023 ASHF minority student scholarship!!!
Our MA student phenom Dewitt Fortenberry is the recipient of the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation minority graduate fellowship. Dewitt is now rich beyond his wildest dreams and will be headed to the ASHA conference in Boston next month to receive the award.
check out this skateboard
Our newest lab member just got a new skateboard for her birthday, and this thing is gorgeous!
The curseR R package is here!
CurseR is an R package that generates combinations of curse words using the principles our lab wrote about in our 2020 article in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. To run curseR and output 10 curse words, open your R console and enter the following code:
devtools::install_github("Reilly-ConceptsCognitionLab/curseR")
library(curseR)
curse(10)
Lucia Pattullo wins fellowship to ANCDS 2022 in New Orleans!
Lucia has won a very competitive fellowship to the 2022 ANCDS conference in New Orleans where she will be paired with a senior aphasiologist to learn the ropes.
Dr. Max Flurie defends his dissertation
For years he has been practicing as ‘dr’ without a license, but now it’s official. Congratulations to Max Flurie on the successful defense of a terrific dissertation today on symbolic cognition.
Jamie's Twitter post makes it to the big time
Featured in Yuko Manakato’s article in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
Max Flurie kicks butt at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference
Wow — Max’s talk was fantastic. Max presented a slam talk last week titled: Symbolic representation of abstract concepts using the N400 mismatch effect. Congrats Max!