Radio still exists! The short message from this interview is that nobody should publicly take a cognitive screening tool like the MoCA.
celebrate the small things
It’s no Publisher’s Clearing House big check, but we’re still proud of this little paper that could.
New article in Emotion
Some unsavory characters have accused Jamie Reilly of having no emotions. Although he can neither confirm nor deny this harsh allegation, one thing is certain. Jamie was recently a co-author on an article published in the journal, Emotion. Be on the lookout for:
*Kelly AE, Kennett YN, Medaglia JD, Reilly J, Dudhat P & Chrysikou EG (2024). Conceptual structure of emotions. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001327
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Sayers
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Sayers - newly minted PhD ready to DESTROY language and short-term memory research. Shift your paradigms, people, because this man is out there!
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR EXHANGE HAPPENING!
Dr. Ana Matic Skoric will be joining us at Temple University in Fall 2024 from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) on a Fulbright Scholar Exchange to study aging and language in our lab. She has worked so hard to get this! Coordinating research plans, sponsor statements, panel interviews, and US government red tape has been an arduous process. SHE DID IT.
Jamie's interview in USA Today on inferring dementia in Trump and Biden from speech
Jamie Reilly appointed to editorial board of Aphasiology
3 years of editorial bliss on the horizon for Jamie, who will be serving on the editorial board of the journal, Aphasiology.
Happy 2024 Everyone!
Lots to look forward in the lab this year. Lucia Pattullo will be starting with us as a PhD student. We are getting a new dry EEG rig. Our conversation alignment algorithms are working and producing some very cool results. We are excited for everything to come!
Lucia Pattullo MA thesis defense coming up!
Our USA Presidential Debates R package is live
Text miners, NLP geeks, and dialogue analysts - we have got a treat for you. Click <here> to learn more about this R package representing televised two-party debate transcripts in the United States from 1960 to the president. I am not a crook!
Dewitt Fortenberry wins 2023 ASHF minority student scholarship!!!
Our MA student phenom Dewitt Fortenberry is the recipient of the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation minority graduate fellowship. Dewitt is now rich beyond his wildest dreams and will be headed to the ASHA conference in Boston next month to receive the award.
check out this skateboard
Our newest lab member just got a new skateboard for her birthday, and this thing is gorgeous!
The curseR R package is here!
CurseR is an R package that generates combinations of curse words using the principles our lab wrote about in our 2020 article in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. To run curseR and output 10 curse words, open your R console and enter the following code:
devtools::install_github("Reilly-ConceptsCognitionLab/curseR")
library(curseR)
curse(10)
Lucia Pattullo wins fellowship to ANCDS 2022 in New Orleans!
Lucia has won a very competitive fellowship to the 2022 ANCDS conference in New Orleans where she will be paired with a senior aphasiologist to learn the ropes.
Dr. Max Flurie defends his dissertation
For years he has been practicing as ‘dr’ without a license, but now it’s official. Congratulations to Max Flurie on the successful defense of a terrific dissertation today on symbolic cognition.
Jamie's Twitter post makes it to the big time
Featured in Yuko Manakato’s article in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
Max Flurie kicks butt at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference
Wow — Max’s talk was fantastic. Max presented a slam talk last week titled: Symbolic representation of abstract concepts using the N400 mismatch effect. Congrats Max!
Lucia Pattullo joins the lab!
We are excited to welcome a new MA thesis student , Lucia Pattullo. Lucia completed her undergrad at the University of Chicago and is now a student in Temple’s SLP program.
Jamie joins the editorial board of Neuropsychologia
One of the lab’s favorite peer-reviewed journals is Neuropsychologia. After many years of reviewing for the journal, Jamie was invited to serve on the editorial advisory board. Exciting times!
Nikki Fackler off to UNC's PhD program!
Our undergraduate phenom, Nikki Fackler, is off to complete her PhD under the direction of Dr. Peter Gordon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We will miss Nikki and wish her the best. She’s got an awesome future ahead of her.