DEAREST READERS,  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK.  FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGING HOME AT MEDIUM.  THANK YOU! 

Earlier this month, we presented the results of the pilot phase of VerbCorner -- our citizen science project probing the nature of linguistic structure -- at a scientific conference (the Workshop on Events in Language and Cognition). You can see the poster describing the work here.  For those who don't know or don't remember, in VerbCorner, we're trying...

It is exciting times at GamesWithWords.org as we settle into our new digs at Boston College. The brick-and-mortar lab now has a name: the Language Learning Laboratory @ Boston College (L3@BC). As we build out the group, expect to see a lot more activity around the site, including new features, projects, etc. Speaking of, we are hiring a research assistant....

Not enough published studies replicate. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most difficult to address is statistical power. Why is low power a problem?Suppose you want to test the effect of some training on IQ scores. You test 50 subjects: 25 in your experimental condition and 25 in the control condition. That's a fairly typical size...

In case you wanted to know more about our VerbCorner project. Many thanks to the two undergraduates who helped make this video.

It's been a very busy time at GamesWithWords. I'm pleased to announce that we'll be moving to Boston College in January. The impending move, combined with a large number of papers to write, has kept me too busy to write much on this blog.