Colloquia and Popular Science
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Forthcoming
2024
Using your mixed models to the fullest: moving beyond ANOVA-style thinking.
Lab colloquium, Dynamic Brain Lab, Northwestern University, Chicago.
2023
Mixed models: why or why not? (But probably why yes!).
Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
2022
Mixed-effects models: All the questions you were too afraid to ask.
University of Leipzig.
2020
Optional stopping, Bayes, estimation and evidence: Riffing on John Kruschke and Data Colada.
M/EEG lunch meeting, DCCN.
Sprache und EEG jenseits des Satzes: Chancen und Herausforderungen.
Linguistics Colloquium, University of Mainz.
2019
Convergence warnings in lme4.
Mixed models meeting (M3), Donders Institute.
Ban the \(t\) test! A modest proposal.
Lunch Talk, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Eine neue Perspektive zu Baseline-Korrektur in EKP-Forschung.
Related paper. Graduate Colloquium, University of Salzburg.
So viele Sprachen und ein Gehirn.
MPG Science Slam, Munich.
2016
Who’s gotta p? Tripping up statistics in the garden of forking paths.
Slides (pdf). Repository. Early Career Seminar: Quality research: Why scientific rigour is so important and strategies for optimisation, Sleep Down Under 2016, Australasian Sleep Association.
Mixed Models.
Slides (html) Part 1, Part 2. Repository. Workshop hosted by the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
Subtleties in controlling confounds in inferential statistics.
Slides (html). Repository. “Donuts” talk, University of Adelaide.
An introduction to multivariate pattern analysis.
Slides (pdf). Repository. 1st UniSA & Uni Melbourne Workshop on Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Event-related Potentials.
2014
Mixed Effects Models.
part of a talk on modern methods in EEG research with Jona Sassenhagen. Slides (pdf). Repository. Colloquium, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of South Australia.
Regularisierung in deutschen Dialekten: eine quantitative Perspektive.
with Oliver Schallert. Slides. Analysis Code. Linguistic Colloquium, University of Mainz.
2013
Die Snowden-Affäre: Welche Daten kann die NSA lesen und was kann sie damit machen?.
Slides (pdf). Repository. Reading Week des FB 09, University of Marburg.
Von Wörtern zu Wellen.
Slides (pdf). Repository. Campus Marburg 2013..
Semantic Dependency Parsing (Sortof).
Slides. Repository. Colloquium, Datorlingvistik, University of Uppsala.
Linear mixed effects models in R.
Slides. Repository. Psycho-/Neurolinguistics Colloquium, University of Marburg.
Conferences
Forthcoming
Massive mixed models in Julia.
Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2025, Nashville.
2025
2024
BoxCox.jl – A lightweight package with nice extensions.
JuliaCon 2024, Eindhoven. https://github.com/palday/juliacon2024.
2023
Graphical Displays for Understanding Mixed Models.
Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2023, Toronto.
Graphical Displays for Understanding Mixed Models.
JuliaCon 2023, Boston.
2022
Effects.jl: Effectively Understand Effects in Regression Models.
JuliaCon 2021, The Internet. https://github.com/palday/juliacon2021.
Non-parametric Methods for Mixed-Effects Models of EEG Data.
JuliaCon 2021, The Internet. https://github.com/palday/juliacon2021.
Fast Simulation-Based Power Analyses for Mixed-Effects Models.
JuliaCon 2021, The Internet. https://github.com/palday/juliacon2021.
Putting the NO in ANOVA: the past, present and future (role) of statistics in linguistics and psychology.
Keynote. Fifth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP), University of Potsdam. https://github.com/palday/smlp2021-keynote.
Naturalistic Stimulation in M/EEG: Promises and Pitfalls.
Talk in the Symposium Naturalistic Stimuli in Cognitive Neuroscience. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TEAP) 2021, Ulm/The Internet.
2020
Parallelization, Random Numbers and Reproducibility.
JuliaCon 2020, The Internet. https://github.com/palday/juliacon2020
Away from arbitrary thresholds: using statistics to improve artifact rejection in ERP.
Poster. Neurobiology of Language 2020, The Internet.
2019
Conversation as a competitive sport
with Antje S. Meyer. Oral presentation. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2019, Moscow.
Beyond Phrase Structure: An Alternative Analysis of Brennan and Hale (2019) Using a Dependency Parser
with Ingmar Brilmayer. Poster. Neurobiology of Language 2019, Helsinki.
Is neural entrainment a basic mechanism for structure building?
with Markus Ostarek, Olivia Gawel1, Johannes Wolfgruber, Birgit Knudsen, Francesco Mantegna and Falk Huettig. Poster. Neurobiology of Language 2019, Helsinki.
2018
Worse than useless: traditional ERP baseline correction reduces power through self-contradiction.
Poster. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6953135. Neurobiology of Language 2018, Quebec City.
2017
Stress-timing via Oscillatory Phase-locking in Naturalistic Language
with Andrea E. Martin. Poster. Neurobiology of Language 2017, Baltimore.
Combinging Eye-movements and EEG recorded from separate populations:
- On the relationship between eye movements and the N400 in sentence processing: A unifying statistical approach.
with Franziska Kretzschmar. Poster (pdf). DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.5267566. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) XIII 2017, Amsterdam. - The two sides of prediction error in reading: On the relationship between eye movements and the N400 in sentence processing.
with Franziska Kretzschmar. European Conference on Eye Movements 2017, Wuppertal. - On the relationship between eye movements and the N400 in predictive actor processing: A unifying statistical approach.
with Franziska Kretzschmar. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2017, Lancaster.
Decoding Linguistic Structure Building in the Time-Frequency Domain.
with Andrea E. Martin. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4757965 Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2017, San Fransisco, and CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2017, Boston.
Recalled visual events from a naturalistic TV-viewing paradigm are associated with higher inter-trial coherence in the alpha band of the EEG.
second author with Daniel Rogers, Phillip Alday, Andrew Corcoran, Jessica Gysin-Webster, Magdalena Nenycz-Thiel, Duane Varan, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina-Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2017, San Fransisco.
2016
The eyes have it: cross-method and cross-linguistic patterns.
with Franziska Kretzschmar, Svenja Lüll, Louise Kyriaki, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3507347. Neurobiology of Language 2016, London.
Confound and control in language experiments.
with Jona Sassenhagen. Poster (pdf). Paper. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3528815. Neurobiology of Language 2016, London.
Individual differences in sentence processing based on handedness and family sinistrality in left- and right-handers.
with F. Kretzschmar, I. Brilmayer, I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, and M. Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3793257. Neurobiology of Language 2016, London.
Biphasic ERP responses are not just filter artifacts.
with Sabine Frenzel, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). Repository. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3412237. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2016, New York.
Towards a Rigorous Motivation for Zipf’s Law.
Poster (pdf). Paper. Repository. Poster DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3412300. Evolang XI, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
(Super small) Data or Super (Small Data)? Using (Inter)Individual Estimates to Get the Most from the Least
with Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Slides. Repository. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471728 Experimental Approaches to Arabic and other understudied Languages 2016, Abu Dhabi.
2015
Microtypological Aspects of Frequency-driven Language Change.
with Oliver Schallert. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3412231. Australian Linguistics Society 2015, Sydney.
The dorsal and ventral streams differ in commutativity, not complexity.
with Sarah Tune, Steven L. Small, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Slides (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3412228. Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2015, Auckland.
Predicting behavioral preferences in language use from electrophysiological activity.
with Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471731. Society for Neuroscience 2015, Chicago.
Wait for it: Predicted Error vs. Prediction Error in Language Processing.
with Jona Sassenhagen, Scott Coussens and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471737. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2015, Chicago.
2014
Neural signatures of incremental text processing correlate with word entropy in a natural story context.
with Jona Sassenhagen and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471740. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2014, Amsterdam.
Tracking the emergence of meaning in the brain during natural story comprehension.
with Jona Sassenhagen and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471743. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience 2014, Brisbane, Australia.
2013
Reliability of gamma activity during semantic integration.
with Jona Sassenhagen. Poster (pdf). DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471746. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2013, San Diego, California.
2012
Towards a Computational Model of Actor-Based Language Comprehension.
with Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel Schlesewsky. Poster (pdf). Repository. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471749. Neurobiology of Language 2012, San Sebastian, Spain.
2011
Actor identification in natural stories: Qualitative distinctions in the neural bases of actor-related features.
with Arne Nagels, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel Schlesewsky. Slides (pdf). Repository. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3471752. Neurobiology of Language 2011, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.