Laura Kertz links
Below are a handful of links, papers, book chapters, and crib notes that I have found either thought-provoking or useful. You might too.
Language-related blogs
- Cognitive Daily serves up new posts regarding current research in cognition almost every day.
- The venerable Language Log.
- Social Science Statistics Blog gives a behind the scenes look at data collection and analysis.
Collecting language data
- Carson Shütze on Thinking about What we are Asking Speakers to Do.
- Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller on Gradient Grammaticality.
- Wayne Cowart's book Experimental Syntax.
Magnitude estimation
- An Introduction to Psychophysics and Magnitude Estimation by Gubbels, Kent, and Roovers at the University of Waterloo.
- Harry Lawless, a food scientist, on why you want to log-transform your ME data before analyzing it. (I find it helpful to think about ME outside of a language context in order to really get my head around it.)
- Some practical advice about logarithms from Gerard Dallal's Little Handbook of Statistical Practice.
- WebExp, the software package from Edinburgh that makes running ME (relatively) painless.
- My tutorial for setting up and running a WebExp experiment.
EEG/ERP
- Marta Kutas, Cyma van Petten, and Robert Kluender have updated their chapter Psycholinguistics Electrified for the Handbook of Psycholinguistics to include EEG language research through 2005.
- Frank Rösler offers a great overview of the development of EEG and ERP and its use in experimental psychology.
- Know your electrodes.
- Neuroanatomy cheat sheet.
Statistics
- Gerard Dallal's Little Handbook of Statistical Practice.
- Baayen, Davidson, & Bates on Mixed Effects Modeling or how to treat your subjects and your items as random effects in the same analysis.
- Stuart Robinson's gentle introduction to R.
- A quick explanation for calculating Z scores in Excel.
- John Verzani's Using R for Introductory Statistics.