Newfound Motivation

I made a considerable amount of progress this week. I finally finished trimming the sentences for the main experiment and now I’m working on programming the task in Gorilla. I did a lot of work in Gorilla when I was programming the norming study, so this time around I...

Patience and Making Decisions

This week I’ve been working on trimming the silences from the recordings of our sentences and normalizing them for intensity. This has taken a bit longer than I anticipated, but it is still progress nonetheless. At first, I was frustrated by how long it’s been taking...

Finished with Norming!

This week we finally got our norming study up and running! Organizing all of the details for this and working on editing the stimuli has been a work in progress for a while now, and it feels great to finally have it all complete. One thing that surprised me this week...

Making Progress

In the midst of this pandemic and quarantine, PIRE research has been keeping me busy and occupied. I’m grateful that we can all continue working on our projects this summer, even if things didn’t quite go as planned.The past few weeks have been dedicated to preparing...