The Word Lab
@TheWordLab
London-based Research Lab @EP_UCL @UCLPALS @jennirodd Interested in how we learn and process language
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1-yr part-time (0.8 FTE) lecturer (teaching) post based in London supporting undergraduate students on the UCL BSc/MSci Psychology programme @UCLPALS Must be able to start in September Application deadline 6th August ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
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Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute open-access test of English vocab. Led by @BobbyPoHengChen with @Rach_Hulme @LenaMBlott @EP_UCL @UCLPALS @JCgntn Accessible via @GorillaPsyc Open Materials; app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/… doi.org/10.5334/joc.391
Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children Aged 3–11: A Scoping Review Lovely work led by Anna Gowenlock with @lilacCourt @UCLPALS @EP_UCL journalofcognition.org/articles/10.53…
As an aside, this is the 6th paper we've published in @JCgntn in the last 2 years. I can't recommend them highly enough. Consistently constructive reviews. High expectations wrt open science. Speedy and fully open access. Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute open-access test of English vocab. Led by @BobbyPoHengChen with @Rach_Hulme @LenaMBlott @EP_UCL @UCLPALS @JCgntn Accessible via @GorillaPsyc Open Materials; app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/… doi.org/10.5334/joc.391
Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute open-access test of English vocab. Led by @BobbyPoHengChen with @Rach_Hulme @LenaMBlott @EP_UCL @UCLPALS @JCgntn Accessible via @GorillaPsyc Open Materials; app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/… doi.org/10.5334/joc.391
My recent paper is just one of many constructive resources that tries to help improve online research. Please link to other helpful examples below. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
There are so many great online expts that demonstrate the utility of collecting data remotely . And so many great best-practice papers setting out how to do good science online.
Online research is hard. You can’t just pay people $1.15, ask them a bunch of boring questions and expect them to pay careful attention. The onus is on us as researchers to design and build tasks where we can have confidence in our own data
Seeing lots of discussion about this “don’t trust MTurk” paper. While it’s maybe useful to have another demo of how bad online data can be, I’d really hoped we’d all moved on to more helpful discussion of what researchers have do to ensure their data is trustworthy 1/some
Nice reviews received for this short online English vocab test by @BobbyPoHengChen The test is already available to use in @GorillaPsyc with details in the preprint. Watch this space for the final paper.
A new fully #OpenAccess short online English vocabulary test. Implemented in @GorillaPsyc with reliability data from a wide age range of UK participants
JOB ALERT! We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Developmental Psychology @UniRdg_Psych. Permanent, Full Time and in a very nice school where you will work with a very nice group of psychologists, linguists, and speech and language therapists. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…
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Lecturer in Developmental Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK
The English WORDS test is now publicly available via Gorilla Open Materials (app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/…) and the Open Science Framework (osf.io/mgsdq). Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated by the authors (me, @Rach_Hulme, @LenaMBlott, @JenniRodd). (5/5)
Critically, the data replicated well-established word frequency and age effects on task performance: (1) responses were more accurate and quicker for more frequent compared to less frequent words, and (2) older adults showed greater vocabulary knowledge than younger adults. (4/5)
In Exp 2, we tested the reliability and the validity of the optimal 30-item WORDS test in a new sample of 121 monolingual English-speaking participants (18-79 yrs). Accuracy data confirmed a good reliability (internal consistency) again. (3/5)
In Exp 1, 109 participants (18-69 yrs) took a synonym-matching task including an initial set of 51 multiple-choice items. We conducted an item response theory analysis based on accuracy data to select an optimal subset of 30 items with a good reliability for the WORDS test. (2/5)
Fancy including a quick & reliable English vocabulary test in your web-based experiment? This 4-minute English WORDS test may be useful. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… WORDS: Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms Below see our two-stage approach to develop this test. (1/5)
Results from observational (N=31) and experimental (N=62) studies reveal divided literature: video is linked to short-term benefits for learning specific linguistic structures, as well as having negative or null long-term associations with standardised language measures
Really pleased to share this new preprint by Anna Gowenlock Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children aged 3-11: A Scoping Review with @lilacCourt @EP_UCL @UCLPALS @UCLLangCog osf.io/preprints/psya…
We have a 6 month RA position available. Closing date is very soon – 7th Jan and we need someone to start asap. The role will mainly involve data collection and analysis for language experiments using children. Both online and in-school: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
Publication Day! Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data I hope this will be useful sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @EP_UCL @UCLPALS
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