29.873, Summer Schools: STEP2018 - Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics/Canada

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Subject: 29.873, Summer Schools: STEP2018 - Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics/Canada

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:08:23
From: Juhani Järvikivi [jarvikivi at ualberta.ca]
Subject: STEP2018 - Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics

STEP2018 - Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics

Host Institution: University of Alberta
Website: http://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/

Dates: 14-May-2018 - 19-May-2018
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Focus: It's STEP time again! The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta Department of Linguistics organizes the fifth annual week long Spring Training Workshop on current issues and methods in Psycholinguistics in Edmonton, Alberta, May 14-19, 2018. The STEP Spring School takes a practical hands-on training approach and is directed at postdocs, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection, and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Special Qualifications:
STEP is directed at postdocs, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students (but also to more senior colleagues/faculty).

Description:
STEP Spring School takes a practical hands-on training approach and is
directed at postdocs, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone
else - more senior researchers and faculty - interested in learning how to
turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs,
data collection, and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical
methods. This is the fifth year in the series and we would like to welcome you
to Edmonton to check out the course selection and to meet this year's
instructors:

Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen) – Computational modeling of lexical
processing with naive discriminative learning

Emmanuel Keuleers (Tilburg University) – People, words, and records: A
transaction-based view on language processing

Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen (McMaster University) & Vincent Porretta (University of
Windsor) – Introduction to linear mixed-effects modeling in R*

Gary Libben (Brock University) – Building and combining your own behavioural
psycholinguistic techniques for pure and applied research

Vincent Porretta (University of Windsor) – Introduction to R*

Debra Titone (McGill University) & Jason Gullifer (McGill University) –
Capitalizing on our communicative & neurocognitive diversity: A selective
overview of why and how we study individual differences in language processing

Benjamin V. Tucker (University of Alberta) – Using speech in
psycholinguistics: From speech synthesis to spoken word recognition

Jacolien Van Rij (Groningen University) & Juhani Järvikivi (University of
Alberta) – Exploring eye-tracking methods in spoken language research

In addition, we will also be offering a day-long intensive Advanced
Statistical Workshop on Generalized Additive Mixed Models on Saturday May
19th. In order to cover the lunch and snacks/drinks, there will be a nominal
fee of $20 for participants who wish to participate in this class.

*Note: for the first time in STEP history, we will be offering certification
for these courses. 

To register, or to find more details including a fee breakdown, see the course
website http://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/, or contact Hannah Sysak
(ccpling at ualberta.ca).

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                      Psycholinguistics

Tuition: 360 CAD

Tuition Explanation: The fee includes attendance, workshop materials, tea/coffee,  light snacks,
and lunches (5 days). There is an extra $20 (CAD) fee for the day-long GAMMs
workshop (on Saturday May 19) which includes drinks, snacks and lunch. There
is a late registration fee of $30 CAD after April 29, 2018.

Registration: 28-Feb-2018 to 06-May-2018

Contact Person: Hannah Sysak
                Phone: 780-492-7560
                Email: ccpling at ualberta.ca

Apply on the web: http://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/

Registration Instructions:
Follow the instructions provided on the webpage to register.

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