Wednesday, February 25, 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16658-fear-of-heights-linked-to-vertical-perception.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Good news: it looks like I have just one more day crunching numbers in the lab before I can start writing it all up. I have 112 participants and solid p values (and what else do you really need?).
Bad news: I was under the impression that I was to produce an 8 to 10 page [...]
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
It’s three in the morning (not exactly 4 am, but the metaphor holds true here). I should be working on graduate applications (due in two days), but I can’t focus. I passed out this afternoon before I could make a second pot of coffee and ended up napping for about 8 hours (my roommate must [...]
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Friday, December 12, 2008
As this just came out, I feel it appropriate that the first science discussion we will have after my exams are done should be Susan Hurley’s shared circuits model. I actually derived this independently while doing background reading in cortical processing for my perceptual research with Jeanine, and only discovered Hurley’s work a few months [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
The first is Steve Novella, for this post where he uses the logic of science to tear apart accupuncture. I do love good science.
The other is this quote from Eric Ambler, which is the most poetic intro I’ve yet found for my research:
” With most persons, recognition was based on the perception of vague, half-observed [...]
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Not being a prolific writer, I am not sure how to begin this blog. A friend advised me start with how I got into research. I suppose that’s as good a place to begin as any.
In the fall of 2007, my lab partner for orgo II mentioned that she was doing research for the biology [...]