Lilia Rissman

Cognitive scientist at @UWMadison. Bribing children with stickers to get them to do language tasks since 2004. event cognition, cross-ling diversity, learning.

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

Thrilled that this paper is finally out – we compared child homesigners against speakers of English, Spanish, and Chinese and found common patterns across all groups in how they described pictures of events. https://t.co/D8ymMvHNWg

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

Cognitive Scientists of the Eastern Great Lakes: on July 28-29 in Buffalo, @BayesForDays and I are hosting a satellite meeting for the @cogsci_soc conference! Folks can present their work, watch talks, and generally hang out. Register at: https://t.co/FEfjjVy96L

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@bdzinszer That's an interesting result – challenges the idea that typicality is dependent on naming (i.e. what is a typical instance of a word in one language may be an atypical instance of a different word in a different language). Where did you give this poster?

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

Hey CogPsych folks - what’s a reference for a categorization study w/o labels, eg: given three pictures belonging to a category (chair, desk, table) does a fourth picture (lamp) also belong to the category? Or, do two pictures (chair, desk) belong to the same category?

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@bdzinszer I was suggesting how the Malt paper that you referenced could be modified to address the question that we are interested in

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@bdzinszer thanks – we are basically looking for a version of the Malt task where they collected similarity judgments while also labeling the objects (e.g., bottle, jar, etc.)

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@m_zettersten W&G is right on the money but they don't test adults (although even four-year-olds don't seem to need to hear the superordinate labels, so that is relevant)

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@m_zettersten (we are ultimately interested in superordinate labels like animal, but basic level labels like dog and cat are relevant too)

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@BayesForDays Yep that’s a possible method - crucially with and without labels

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@TraversEoin A triad task with and without labels would be relevant for our purposes also! (Eg chair, desk, computer; with and without the label ‘furniture’)

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@glupyan and I are especially interested in studies that do this type of task and without labels (eg furniture). Koemeda-Lutz (1987, Brain & Language) did this but only w brain-damaged ppl.

[Ezgi Mamus @mamus_ezgi]

Thrilled to share that this paper is finally out #OpenData #OpenAccess! With @laurajspeed, @wugtask, @asifa_majid, and @ozyurek_a we examined whether lack of visual experience affects multimodal language production. Summary 👇🏾 1/5
https://t.co/h8IRiFzWK0

[Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/ @thai101]

Light verbs implies the existence of the more sinister dark verbs, which drain the words around them of any semantic content

[ArrateIsasi @ArrateIsasmendi]

Only a week left for our @JCoLE2022 workshop on Event role biases in language and cognition! With the fantastic line up of talks including @wugtask, @AlonHafri, @Denis_Tatone and @ebru_ger, join us online next Monday (Sept 5th)🤩 More info👇

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

@garicgymro In my work I have referred to this as “agent-backgrounding” - not that catchy for the public though

[CogSci Society @cogsci_soc]

#MarkYourCalendars
#Symposium at #CogSci2022

Universality and Diversity in Event Cognition and Language
🗓 July 30
⏰ 8:30-10:10 EDT
👤 @wugtask, @ErcenurUnal, @ArrateIsasmendi, and Yue Ji (chair)

ℹ️ https://t.co/leijowYScH

[Lilia Rissman @wugtask]

Very proud of my wife @designatednerd for the well-placed cat pic

[Eduardo Bocato @dubocato]

And the prize for funnier talk goes to @designatednerd!
Great talk even my cat would have enjoyed it 🤣
Congrats!

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

Working on cognitive biases & language? Submit your abstract and attend our workshop at Amsterdam Colloquium. Invited speakers: @wugtask @drculbertson See https://t.co/tFA5zfv9OP for more info!