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Grant: Ford-Sloan

Recommended citation: Grant: Along with PI R. Stuart Geiger (University of California, Berkeley) and fellow co-PI Lilly Irani (Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego), our team won an interdisciplinary grant from the Ford and Ford Foundations to help our understanding of important digital infrastructure. Check out the announcement from Ford below!

Outreach: Data on the Mind 2017 summer workshop

Recommended citation: Outreach: Videos and code from the Data on the Mind 2017 summer workshop are now available! Check out 11 tutorials dedicated to helping cognitive scientists explore questions about cognition and behavior with big and naturally occurring data. Find out more through the links below.

Posts

chapters

B(eo)W(u)LF

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., & Dale, R. (2013). B(eo)W(u)LF: Facilitating recurrence analysis on multi-level language. arXiv:1308.2696 [cs.CL].

PSBigData

Recommended citation: Paxton, A. (2019). #PSBigData: Helping big data research become more ethical and more open. Psychonomic Society Featured Content.

miscellany

From Paxton & Dale (2013)

Recommended citation: From Paxton & Dale (2013). Resources for automated frame-differencing method (FDM) for analyzing interpersonal bodily synchrony, with sample MATLAB code for the FDM and AppleScript for preparing image segmentation. Be sure to save the AppleScript in the appropriate format before use.
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From Tollefsen, Dale, & Paxton (2013)

Recommended citation: From Tollefsen, Dale, & Paxton (2013). Color version of Figure 1, presenting body movement in colored lines and speech events as shaded boxes of corresponding color. Code to create these plots with your own data is available on GitHub.
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proceedings

Complexity matching in dyadic interaction

Recommended citation: Abney, D., Paxton, A., Kello, C.T., & Dale, R. (2013). Complexity matching in dyadic interaction. In P. Passos, J. Barrieros, R. Cordovil, D. Araújo, & F. Melo (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action XII. Proceedings from the Seventeenth International Conference on Perception and Action.

From minor mishap to major catastrophe: Lexical choice in miscommunication

Recommended citation: Roche, J. M., Paxton, A., Ibarra, A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2013). From minor mishap to major catastrophe: Lexical choice in miscommunication. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Network analysis of multimodal, multiscale coordination in dyadic problem solving

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., Abney, D., Kello, C. K., & Dale, R. (2014). Network analysis of multimodal, multiscale coordination in dyadic problem solving. In P. M. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Leveraging linguistic content and debater traits to predict debate outcomes

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., & Dale, R. (2014). Leveraging linguistic content and debater traits to predict debate outcomes. In P. M. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Failure to (mis)communicate: Linguistic convergence, lexical choice, and communicative success in dyadic problem solving

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., Roche, J. M., Ibarra, A., & Tananhaus, M. K. (2014). Failure to (mis)communicate: Linguistic convergence, lexical choice, and communicative success in dyadic problem solving. In P. M. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Scale-independent aggression

Recommended citation: Blau, J. J. C., & Paxton, A. (2019). Scale-independent aggression. In L. van Dijk and R. Withagen (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action XX: Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action. Enschede: Ipskamp Printing.

Nest-ed affordances

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2019). Nest-ed affordances. In L. van Dijk and R. Withagen (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action XX: Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action. Enschede: Ipskamp Printing.

The case for intersectionality in ecological psychology

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., Blau, J. J. C., & Weston, M. (2019). The case for intersectionality in ecological psychology. In L. van Dijk and R. Withagen (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action XX: Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action. Enschede: Ipskamp Printing.

Acoustic specification of upper limb movement in voicing

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2019). Acoustic specification of upper limb movement in voicing. In A. Grimminger (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction. Paderborn: Universitaetsbibliothek Paderborn.

Gesture-speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., de Jonge-Hoekstra, L., Harrison, S. J., Paxton, A., & Dixon, J. (2020). Gesture-speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements. In A. Grimminger (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Gesture and Speech in Interaction. Paderborn: Universitaetsbibliothek Paderborn.

Driver psychology latent classes as predictors of traffic incident occurrence in Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data

Recommended citation: Sharmin, S., Ivan, J. N., Kerry, M. L., Paxton, A., & Tucker, A. (forthcoming, 2022). Driver psychology latent classes as predictors of traffic incident occurrence in Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. To appear in Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 2022 Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

publications

Scale-independent aggression

Published in Complexity, 1900

Recommended citation: Blau, J. J. C., & Paxton, A. (2020). Scale-independent aggression: A fractal analysis of four levels of human aggression. Complexity, 2020, 2047157.

Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education

Published in PLOS Computational Biology, 1900

Recommended citation: DeMasi, O.*, Paxton, A.*, & Koy, K. (2020). Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(5), e1007695. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007695

Action coordination in non-human self-organizing collectives

Published in Ecological Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Action coordination in non-human self-organizing collectives: Multidisciplinary lessons from living and nonliving systems. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 139-142. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1842136

Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11364-11367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004163117.

Ecological psychology meets ecology

Published in Ecological Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Ecological psychology meets ecology: Apis mellifera as a model for perception-action, social dynamics, and human factors. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 192-213. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1836966

Reply to Ravignani and Kotz

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Reply to Ravignani and Kotz: Physical impulses from upper-limb movements impact the respiratory-vocal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23225-23226. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015452117

Cooperation in sound and motion

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1900

Recommended citation: Abney, D., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(9), 1760-1771. doi: 10.1037/xge0001018

Functional interdependence in coupled dissipative structures

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1900

Recommended citation: De Bari, B., Paxton, A., Dixon, J. A., Kondepudi, D., & Kay, B. A. (2021). Functional interdependence in coupled dissipative structures: Physical foundations of biological intra- and inter-organism. Entropy, 23(5), 614. doi: 10.3390/e23050614

Gesture-speech physics in fluid speech and rhythmic hand movement

Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., de Jonge-Hoekstra, L., Harrison, S. J., Paxton, A., & Dixon, J. (2021). Gesture-speech physics in fluid speech and rhythmic hand movement. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1491(1), 89-105. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14532

Child-caregiver interactions during a collaborative motor task in children with cerebral palsy

Published in Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 1900

Recommended citation: Schwab, S. M., Carver, N. S., Forman, M., Abney, D. H., Davis, T. J., Riley, M. A., Paxton, A., & Silva, P. L. (2022). Child-caregiver interactions during a collaborative motor task in children with cerebral palsy: A descriptive exploratory study. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 34, 255-277. doi: 10.1007/s10882-021-09798-6
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Community, time, and (con)text

Published in Cognitive Science, 1900

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., Varoquaux, N., Holdgraf, C., & Geiger, R. S. (accepted). Community, time, and (con)text: Online communication patterns in open-source software communities and their implications for community health. Cognitive Science.

Paper Title Number 4

Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024

This paper is about fixing template issue #693.

Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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Natural, nonlinear, and noisy

Published in , 1900

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (under revision). Natural, nonlinear, and noisy: A quantitative approach to the collection and analysis of real-world social behavior.

Say that again

Published in , 1900

Recommended citation: Mankovich, A., Wittke, K., Blume, J., Mastergeorge, A. M., Paxton, A., & Naigles, L. R. (in preparation). Say that again: Quantifying patterns of grammatical production for children with ASD using recurrence analysis.

recent

Publication: Social dynamics of nonliving dissipative structures

Recommended citation: Publication: Humans are a kind of dissipative structure---that is, an entity that requires the addition of energy in order to sustain itself. Recently, Ben de Bari led a project in which we investigated seemingly social behavior of nonliving dissipative structures, allowing us to explore how much of our human social dynamics might be explained by the constraints and pressures of being dissipative structures in shared environments (De Bari, Paxton, Kondepudi, Kay, & Dixon, 2021, Entropy).

Ethics: Psychological scientists, data science, and data ethics

Recommended citation: Data ethics: Psychological scientists are increasingly interested in harnessing big data and naturally occurring data, but this new data landscape poses new challenges. I argue that the Belmont principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice can---and should!---serve as our ethical foundation as we deal with human-derived data (Paxton, 2020, Big data methods for psychological research: New horizons and challenges).
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Publication: Online and offline social cohesion

Recommended citation: Publication: Graduate student Megan Chiovaro led an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring the connection between online and offline social cohesion by analyzing real-world action and Twitter activity during the Arab Spring (Chiovaro, L. C. Windsor*, A. Windsor, & Paxton*, 2021, PLOS ONE).

Publication: ALIGN

Recommended citation: Methods development: Automatically and reproducibly quantify multi-level linguistic alignment in natural conversation with ALIGN (Duran, Paxton, & Fusaroli, 2019, Psychological Methods). Find our Python package on GitHub, or install it directly from PyPI!
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Publication: Intersectional, Social, Ecological

Recommended citation: Conference proceedings: We argue that ecological psychology must grow to consider how intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991) impacts social effectivities and social affordances (Paxton, Blau, & Weston, 2019, Studies in Perception and Action XV: Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action).

resources

ALIGN

Recommended citation: ALIGN. Python library for extracting quantitative, reproducible metrics of multi-level alignment between two speakers in naturalistic language corpora.

bwlf

Recommended citation: bwlf. Code to help get text data into recurrence-ready analysis form. Development supported by the NSF under grants BCS-0826825 and BCS-0926670.

clustering_tutorial

Recommended citation: clustering-tutorial. Tutorial for k-means clustering in R, with lessons on good coding practices and the tidyverse along the way.

crqa_tools

Recommended citation: crqa-tools. Tutorials and tools to help with RQA and CRQA in R. Currently includes tutorials on continuous and categorical RQA and CRQA, along with tools to help with plotting.

Data on the Mind

Recommended citation: Data on the Mind. A community resource dedicated to helping bridge the gaps between big data and cognitive science.

Data on the Mind 2017 workshop

Recommended citation: Data on the Mind 2017 workshop. Materials from Data on the Mind's 2017 summer workshop, aimed at providing early-career researchers in cognitive science and psychology with hands-on introductions to essential data science skills. Exercises and tutorial videos are provided below. Generously funded by the Estes Fund, Berkeley's D-Lab, and Project Jupyter.

Frame-differencing method

Recommended citation: Frame-differencing method. MATLAB code for measuring body movement and interpersonal synchrony from videos. Development supported by the NSF under grants BCS-0826825 and BCS-0926670.
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Gensim_LSI_Word_Similarities

Recommended citation: Gensim-LSI-Word-Similarities. Functions to calculate various similarity scores from Gensim's latent semantic indexing in Python.

living-documents

Recommended citation: living-documents. A tutorial on using Jupyter notebooks and R markdown to create living documents, reproducible reports, and reproducible manuscripts. Includes Binder-based demonstration to get you started (nearly) instantly.

NODS in psychological research

Recommended citation: NODS in psychological research. Repository of exercises and code associated with my Spring 2021 class, "Naturally occurring data in psychological research" (PSYC 5570).

plotting-coupled-data

Recommended citation: plotting-coupled-data. Code plots coupled categorical and continuous time series in a single, elegant plot. It was originally created to visualize concurrent speech (categorical) and movement (continuous) signals in the same plot.

professional-website-design

Recommended citation: professional-website-design. Tutorial on creating a professional website on GitHub Pages.

PsyGlass

Recommended citation: PsyGlass. Code to enable researchers to turn Google Glass into a tool for experiment design and data collection.
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stats-tools

Recommended citation: stats-tools. Bits of code to help clean up and display statistical analyses, largely in R.

xsede-quickstarts

Recommended citation: xsede-quickstarts. A few quickstart guides to getting going on XSEDE resources (Jetstream and PSC Bridges). In addition to walkthroughs, it also includes some basic scripts that you can use as templates to help manage your instances.

talks

teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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