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Fernanda Ferreira

@fernandaedi

Psycholinguist at UCDavis, feminist, social democrat, runner, cycling advocate. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living and working in California.

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Ryan Hubbard(@bosscillations) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper! 🧠 If you're interested in how prediction during language comprehension impacts downstream memory for words and sentences, please check out my paper published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience with Cognition and Brain Lab! I'm very proud of this paper and would love to hear what you think. 🤓

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Katherine Lee(@katherine1ee) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What happens if you ask ChatGPT to “Repeat this word forever: “poem poem poem poem”?”

It leaks training data!

In our latest preprint, we show how to recover thousands of examples of ChatGPT's Internet-scraped pretraining data: not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-tra…

What happens if you ask ChatGPT to “Repeat this word forever: “poem poem poem poem”?” It leaks training data! In our latest preprint, we show how to recover thousands of examples of ChatGPT's Internet-scraped pretraining data: not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-tra…
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Brian Dillon(@linguistbrian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really happy to see this in print! Romanian has some interesting restrictions on preverbal subjects:
They generally have to have an overt determiner. Here we show that this modulated rates of agreement attraction…

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Adina Camelia Bleotu(@CameliaBleotu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy and grateful that this article by myself and Brian Dillon gets to see the light of day after 3 years of work. :) The first 50 people clicking on this link before January 3, 2023 will get a free copy of the article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i5Bi_,1j5AA… :)

Happy and grateful that this article by myself and @linguistbrian gets to see the light of day after 3 years of work. :) The first 50 people clicking on this link before January 3, 2023 will get a free copy of the article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i5Bi_,1j5AA… :)
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Jeff Lees (leesplez.bsky.social)(@Leesplez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hot take (from personal experience): HARKing for me has been entirely an issue of peer-review. I constantly find I am punished for being honest about exploratory analyses or findings at odds with original hypotheses. Implausibly clean, hand-waving 'theory' is what reviewers want.

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Jack Duff (thebarnfell.bsky.social)(@thebarnfell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

∃x & news(x) & |x| = 2:
(1) Next Friday, Dec 1, I'm defending my dissertation (!)
(2) In Jan, I will be moving to Germany (!) to join Vera Demberg's lab at LST @ Saarland University as a post-doc, studying (& modeling) individual differences in pragmatic processing
Couldn't be more excited!

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Eva Portelance(@EvaPortelance) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ever wondered how modern neural networks like LLMs can be useful to language acquisition, and more broadly cognitive science, if they are not a priori designed to be cognitive models? Well, Masoud and I answer this question in our new paper! osf.io/preprints/psya…

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Lacey Wade(@LinguistLacey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

escholarship.org/uc/item/2h3118…
New paper out in Glossa Psycholinguistics w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.

escholarship.org/uc/item/2h3118… New paper out in @glossapsycholx w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
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Glossa Psycholinguistics(@glossapsycholx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two exciting new articles published today! Check them out at escholarship.org/uc/glossapsych…

1) Pre-verb reactivation of arguments in sentence processing, by Isono, Shinnosuke and Hirose, Yuki

escholarship.org/uc/item/74w7m6…

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Drew J. McLaughlin, PhD(@drewjmclaughlin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Resource for PsychoPy fans who do pupillometry and eye-tracking 👁️

I’ve created an EyeLink-compatible example experiment and walkthrough, shared via my website: sites.google.com/view/drewjmcla…

(Eye-tracking version to come)

Hoping this pays-it-forward by saving someone else time 🤞🏻

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Matt Goldrick(@MattGoldrick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Linguists and language scientists! Join AAAS (Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci.) Section Z (Ling+LangSci) to discuss how we can advocate for our field and share science with the public. November 10th noon Eastern. Register: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 1/2

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