Authors Committee Chair Change 

I'd like to announce a change today in our Blog Author's Committee
Chair from  Amy Perfors  to  Mike Kellermann .  Mike was a Michigan undergrad, spent a year in London
at the LSE, and is now a 4th year graduate student in the Government
Department at Harvard.  He studies political parties in advanced
industrial democracies and is interested in statistical and formal
approaches to the study of politics.  He tells me that writing for the
blog is a good way to take his mind off of the collapse of Michigan
sports teams in the last year (the Pistons, the Tigers, Michigan
football, etc.), but I think its only because his quiet and careful
demeanor belies the enormous energy he brings to research and methods.

 We are fortunate to have Amy continuing to write for the blog at
the same time as she continues her Bayesian studies of language, how
kids learn, and a variety of other  interesting
issues  in cognitive science.