Thesising, Abstracts, New Stimuli

I'm quite excited to be almost done with my thesis. Essentially, I'm a general discussion away from having it signed off on - not bad. The goal is to have it submitted by the second week in June.

This week, I'll be writing an abstract for Psychonomics which will be held in Chicago in November. I'll be hoping to present a poster concerning a follow-up of some of my master's stuff. The experiment was designed to test two separate hypotheses about agreement error production - semantic integration and hierarchical feature passing - in one study. If it all works out, this study should provide a better picture on what is going on in agreement production. What I'd like to figure out is how meaning relationships, structural relationships, and order of production interact during the unconscious planning processes involved in producing subject-verb agreement.

This week, I should also be finding out how well the pictures for my new experiments scale down to fit on the computers we have in the lab. Once this is figured out, the drawing of stimuli, and lots of planning of experiments, will be able to proceed and what I hope to be break-neck pace. This will let me plan what my dissertation can look like, which is extremely useful. One of the pictures I hope to use is above - I'll explain more how this will work in a later post.

Thanks to Keith, a sentence processing lab RA, for his artistic abilities.