Shravan Vasishth
@shravanvasishth.bsky.social
Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. Outside of work: Classical guitar, beginning student of piano. I like our cats, on occasion. Web page: vasishth.github.io
📘 With the release of our textbook "Bayesian Workflow" (avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...), I figured I'd also share the content of my graduate course on the topic at UBC. 🌎 charlesm93.github.io/stat547/ The course contains overlapping and complementary material, homeworks and reading.
Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
avehtari.github.io
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
I just learned that one easy fix to preventing github from allowing the user to deploy a web page from the root directory in the main branch. Just move your html page and any subdirectories into the docs directory and deploy the web page from there.
Excited to share that @shravanvasishth.bsky.social will be visiting @princeton.edu virtually tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7) 🗣️ Talk: "Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian Approach" 12:00 PM ET 🛠️Workshop: "Theory-Informed Model Specification" 11:00 AM ET The zoom is open to all!
I'm giving a talk over zoom tomorrow at Princeton, their noon. Before that, I will give a workshop on multinomial processing trees. Details here: psych.princeton.edu/news-events/...
Shravan Vasishth - Professor, University of Potsdam
Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian ApproachGarden-path sentences are constructions that temporarily mislead the reader into building an incorrect parse of a sentence. Consider how you mi...
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I have extended the deadline to 3 April 6PM Central European Time, as there was some confusion about when exactly applications close.
Shravan Vasishth@shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 11mo agoApplications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open: vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the tenth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Aug 24-28, 2026, in Potsdam, Germany): vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
Ever since Microsoft took over github they keep messing up the workflow. I have to go manually switch off their stupid Actions (which they enable by default), which breaks my websites for my data and other resources. WTF?
Apparently @planetmoney.bsky.social does not know the difference between reproducing an analysis using the provided code and data, and replicating an experiment's results with a new experiment: www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game : Planet Money
The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...
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New open-access paper with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: "Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling" doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
Redirecting
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New preprint led by Pia Schoknecht: Local coherence effects are task sensitive: Evidence from event-related potentials in German doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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New preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We jointly model reading data from four tasks (SPR, BSPR, eye tracking, Maze) with a latent-process mixture, and find that it outperforms LLM surprisal in terms of predictive fit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open: vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
LINGUIST List 36.3850 Internships: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: 3- to 4-month Fellowships at the University of Potsdam, CRC1287 L...
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Here is your chance to weigh in on what the psycholinguistic and machine learning community needs regarding preprocessing pipelines, software tools, and data sharing standards for eye-tracking research: An anonymous survey that lasts just 10-15 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/
Questionnaire | page 1
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Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open: vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
a rare sighting of all three authors of The Book, all in one place:
New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.
New preprint with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We use a computational model to look at how linguistic context affects first-pass attachment and reanalysis. Assuming a tripartite mixture of reanalyzed, non-reanalyzed and inattentive trials outperforms LLM surprisal. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling - lingbuzz/009217
A theoretically important claim in psycholinguistics is that in English, linguistic context largely eliminates garden-path effects in temporary complement clause/relative clause ambiguities (e.g., Alt...
lingbuzz.net
Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...
Shravan Vasishth's Intro Bayes course home page
vasishth.github.io
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert: vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
Sentence processing workshop, May 27, 2025
vasishth.github.io
Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
Temporary positions for academic staff
Temporary positions for academic staff at the University of Potsdam
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New study on local coherence, led by Pia Schoknecht : The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
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Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
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@cos.io Are you aware that in restructuring your website you have destroyed many repositories? The new Files directory is empty, and add-ons to github repos no longer work. WTF?
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 cpl2025.sites.uu.nl When: December 18–19, 2025 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025 Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
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