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

Madison, WI
Joined September 2009
What is software that can compute the area of a demarcated region of an image? eg if I manually outline the comb in this pic, what is the size of the comb relative to the whole? I need something more fine-grained than a bounding box
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Is it appropriate to celebrate when you find the result you predicted (since as scientists, I think our ideal stance is dispassionate neutrality)? In other words, can I send this to my colleagues after the analyses I just did?
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So apparently my ASL dictionary does not have entries for ‘rain’ or ‘restaurant’ but does have an entry for an anti-semitic slur. Seriously what the hell
% of female professors is increasing in the Netherlands, but % of female PhD students is decreasing- future pipeline problem? #pumpyourcareer
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Replying to @mamus_ezgi
@mamus_ae explaining cross-linguistic semantics @Drongofest, Dutch language festival
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We think differently about events with agents depending on whether we can see the agent's face. Just published #openaccess. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Hiking along the White Cliffs of Dover...
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So apparently this is a thing that exists, ~20 km south of Tilburg #stochasticborder #nimby
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#Eclipse2017 viewing with family in Chicago! Sorry for inadvertent product placement
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