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Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This paper with Sasha Mayn and Vera Demberg was the main project of my post-doc at @lst.uni-saarland.de! Really proud of it, and happy to have it out in @openmindjournal.bsky.social. Headline: A time-conserving ACT-R agent does a nice job explaining low implicature rates in communication games.

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Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Sad to be missing AMLaP, home with some surprise COVID, but very thankful to my co-author Laura Pissani for going solo on our Saturday talk on diffusion models for the Maze task! For anyone else stuck at home, let me tell you here about what we've learned by modeling Maze RTs as decision-making.

Title slide from a talk at AMLAP 2025 in Prague. Title is "Jointly modeling maze RT and accuracy using diffusion models: A first case study", by authors Jack Duff (UCLA) and Laura Pissani (Saarland). There is a graphic of a bird facing a series of diffusion model trajectories deciding between the words "attend" and "fly".

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Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Overjoyed to share that this coming fall, I'll be joining UCLA Linguistics as an assistant professor of psycholinguistics!

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Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Gorgeous example of a preposition pruning error in what would have already been a confusing and wonderful RC. (Context: www.nytimes.com/athletic/572...)

NYTimes caption reading: "Top photo of Jansen at the plate for the Red Sox in a game he was the listed hitter for the Blue Jays before first pitch: Paul Rutherford / Getty Images"

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Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

∃x & news(x) & |x| = 2: (1) Next Friday, Dec 1, I'm defending my dissertation (!) (2) In Jan, I will be moving to Germany (!) to join Vera Demberg's lab at Saarland as a post-doc, studying (& modeling) individual differences in pragmatic processing Couldn't be more excited!

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