The Archives - The LCL’s Journal

• June 2024:
  • The lab has had quite a few publications related to the Singlish word association project:
    • 1. Preliminary data from NUS students for the wiki-300 list of Singlish concepts is published in the Journal of Open Psychology Data, with Jin Jye Wong as the lead author.
         
    • 2. A peer-reviewed CogSci 2024 proceedings on the prevalence of Singlish concepts, which Cynthia will present a poster at the CogSci conference.
    • 3. A fun side-quest comparing the humor of words from various English dialects, including Singapore English. Read the preprint here.
  • Cynthia is off to CogSci 2024 in Rotterdam! She will present two posters, one on the prevalence of Singlish concepts across the Singaporean population, and another on preliminary analyses of the Chinese character network. She also has a talk about memory search using semantic fluency tasks for a symposium on “Dynamics of Memory Search”, organized by Dr. Abhilasha Kumar.
  • Other news:
    • A cool co-authored publication with Dr. Nichol Castro on phonological distance effects among persons with aphasia is out!
    • Cynthia is one of the invited speakers for the Conference on Complex Systems later this year in Exeter, UK!
    • Funky results about landmark nodes in the phonological network will be presented at the Virtual Math Psych conference ;)
• November 2023:
  • Cynthia is off to Psychonomics in San Francisco! She will present a talk at the main conference (new research comparing network and Levenshtein distances between word pairs), and two talks at the Society of Computation in Psychology (one about humor norms for words in various English dialects, and another about network science as a useful framework for studying the mental lexicon). Three talks! Never again :)
  • Jin Jye is off to Barin, Italy in November to present the LCL’s research on Singlish word association networks at the CogAI conference!
  • A couple of co-authored papers with Dr. Ying Li (The struggle for life among words) and with Dr. Massimo Stella (Hypergraph models of the lexicon) as leads have been accepted. Both are really cool papers that I am happy to have made a small contribution to. Do check them out!
  • Cynthia’s contribution to the online Oxford Bibliographies entry on “Spoken Word Recognition” has been accepted!
  • Cynthia gave a presentation about language networks to the Institute of Policy Studies’ Social Lab in October. A nice excuse to visit the very pretty Bukit Timah campus ;)
• May 2023: A long overdue update is needed!
  • The LCL’s research on Singapore English has been featured in The Business Times!
  • Preliminary results from the Small World of Singlish Words project will be presented as a poster at CogSci 2023 (Cynthia also presented at the FASS Brown Bag Seminar and at the Singapore Psychological Society’s AGM in March 2023).
  • Our research on the L2 lexicon and phonological communities will be presented at ISB 14 and CogSci 2023 respectively this summer.
  • Hot off the press: The first paper in the “Phonological Distance series” was just accepted at JEP:LMC - stay tuned for more details!
• August 2022: The LCL’s research on Singlish word associations has been featured in Channel News Asia and The HomeGround Asia!
  
• June 2022: New publications in Scientific Reports and Memory and Cognition!
  • Cynthia collaborated with Dr. Nala Lee to apply network analysis to language endangerment data. This paper is published in Scientific Reports.
  • Cynthia collaborated with Dr. Ying Li on a project investigating how the semantic histories of words affect (and is affected by) people’s language processing. Click here to read the preprint!
    
• Cynthia will present a talk at the James Cook University Brown Bag Series on the 29th of April 2022. Details and the Zoom link can be found here.
• April 2022: New publications in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, and Memory & Cognition!
  • Our paper on the humor of word pairs is published in JEP:LMC. Click here to read the preprint!
  • Our paper about conceptual representations of domain-specific knowledge among university and high school students is published in M&C. Click here to read the preprint and here to listen a podcast about this work!
  • Our paper about gender stereotypes in word co-occurrence networks of movie plots is published in BDCC. Click here to read the article!
    
• March 2022: New publication - Commentary in the Journal of Learning Analytics about how Cognitive Network Science can be useful for the field of Learning Analytics. Click here to read the article.
• November 2021: Cynthia received the Promising Researcher Award from NUS FASS! Check out her interview here.