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PhD candidate @ University of Maryland stats and psycholing janissary fan of decomposing and phrasal spellout https://xitter.gq/t.co/cxuAYy6Z32

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Are most sentences unique? I investigated the Chomskyan claim (as summarized by @sapinker) using some corpora, inspired by a conversation with @langofmind: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19108
Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 (@langofmind) profile pictureRyan Rhodes ⚙️🧠@langofmind21 Sep 2025
Replying to @hiramring
Yeah, I was thinking exact matches. Trying to see if anyone has quantified Chomsky's claim that most of the sentences we hear are novel
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Xinchi Yu@Xinchi_Yu3 May 2025
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Non-visually-derived mental objects tax “visual” pointers

Non-visually-derived mental objects tax “visual” pointers

In daily life, we can construct mental objects from various modalities: we can create a cat in the mind from visual experience, or from what someone says or signs linguistically. Do mental objects...

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Xinchi Yu@Xinchi_Yu3 May 2025
Excited to share my new preprint! Extending prior work on visual working memory load, we showed that speech-induced mental imagery load during eye closure also similarly suppresses posterior alpha power, suggesting a shared pointer system across vision and language.
Left posterior alpha power inversely predicts speech-induced mental imagery load. (A) Il-lustration of the procedure of a trial in our experiment. (B) Average alpha power during the imagine-more phase and the preceding 1000 ms in the left posterior ROI. Data were all resampled to 500 Hz and smoothed with a sliding 100 ms window for visualization. For the data pattern across the entire epoch see Supplementary Figure S1. (C) Average alpha power across the imagine-more phase for the left posterior ROI. Error bars represent standard error across participants. *: p < 0.05. (D) Model comparison for the left ROI, between a GLME model with three load levels and one with only two load levels (load < and > 3), on adjusted R2 and AIC.

ALT Left posterior alpha power inversely predicts speech-induced mental imagery load. (A) Il-lustration of the procedure of a trial in our experiment. (B) Average alpha power during the imagine-more phase and the preceding 1000 ms in the left posterior ROI. Data were all resampled to 500 Hz and smoothed with a sliding 100 ms window for visualization. For the data pattern across the entire epoch see Supplementary Figure S1. (C) Average alpha power across the imagine-more phase for the left posterior ROI. Error bars represent standard error across participants. *: p < 0.05. (D) Model comparison for the left ROI, between a GLME model with three load levels and one with only two load levels (load < and > 3), on adjusted R2 and AIC.

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Restrictions have been placed on entering and exiting Istanbul and ban on all demonstrations and events extended to 27 March as protests continue to build around the detention of Istanbul's mayor, who is scheduled to appear before a prosecutor tonight.
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#SonDakika | İstanbul'a giriş çıkışlara kısıtlama getirildi! Tüm gösteri ve etkinlikler 27 Mart'a kadar yasaklandı! cumhuriyet.com.tr/siyaset/is…
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Replying to @UtkuTurkLing
imagine having so much charisma you dictate verbal agreement in the Turkish language
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Bu ABD için büyük bir başarı. Erdoğan hükümeti için de öyle. Ve Erdoğan'ın çıkarlarının ABD'ninkilerle hala önemli ölçüde örtüşebildiğini de hatırlatmalı.
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Beşşar Esad'dan sonraki rejim örnek bir liberal demokrasi olmayacaktır, daha kötüye de gidebilir, ama yine de başkanlığı diktatör babasından devralan, halkının önemli bir kesimine düşman, eli kanlı bir psikopatın sahneden çekilmesine seviniyorum.
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📚🚨 I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects for #RStats and Python. These are early drafts and I really need your feedback! Errors, content requests, improvements, etc. marginaleffects.com
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Running that first regression and seeing null results after waiting six months for data
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic1 Aug 2024
“Finally time to start my summer writing”
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It's official. I'm writing the #marginaleffects book! The provisional title is “Model to Meaning: How to Interpret and Communicate Statistical Results in R and Python” Please reply with better titles, artwork ideas, content suggestions... What do you want to read? #Rstats
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Check out the marginaleffects.com website re-design. 30 free chapters of tutorials and case studies on how to interpret your statistical models in R and Python. Now with cute illustrations!
Animals with the words "The marginal effects zoo"

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For the Bayes-curious: There are still some places open for my one-week long introduction to Bayesian statistics (specifically aimed at (psycho)linguists) using brms/Stan at the Gent summer school in July 2024: mils.ugent.be/courses/module…
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Teşekkürler İstanbul
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Paper alert!📢 @tmalsburg and I looked hard into agreement attraction configurations in grammatical sentences, and, against all probability, found stable attraction effects in 3 experiments: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…. Why did we find the effects when 30+ other studies failed to?
A summary of the meta-analysis that shows an overall estimate centered at 0.

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I like ordering cortados at the coffee shop because you have no idea how much milk you'll get. Can be anywhere between an ounce and a gallon. Keeps things interesting.
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Interested in studying individual differences, language processing, and working memory? Work with us as a PhD student! The Language Processing Lab @cogsci_iitk invites applications for a PhD position in sentence processing (psycholinguistics).
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Making steady progress with my stimulus presentation software for eye-tracking experiments. Think Ibex but for eye-tracking. Can be used with any eye-tracker via Python APIs. It now has all the features needed for a typical reading experiment. github.com/tmalsburg/chamois
GitHub - tmalsburg/chamois: A simple Python app for running eye-tracking experiments on reading...

GitHub - tmalsburg/chamois: A simple Python app for running eye-tracking experiments on reading...

A simple Python app for running eye-tracking experiments on reading behaviour - tmalsburg/chamois

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Sathvik@sathvikn429 Feb 2024
Presenting a poster at #HSP2024! Come for tokenization, stay for morphology 👀
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Mistreatment of missing data in the timeline again. It is yet again time to (meta)talk about missing data. elevanth.org/blog/2022/01/06…
Terminator 2 phone call meme. 1: What's your mom's job? Statistician. 2. Is it okay to replace missing values with zeroes? 3. Sure honey that sounds fine 4. Your foster parents are dead

ALT Terminator 2 phone call meme. 1: What's your mom's job? Statistician. 2. Is it okay to replace missing values with zeroes? 3. Sure honey that sounds fine 4. Your foster parents are dead

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