Steven Novella loves me back:
The brain processes sensory information so that it is a useful, and not necessarily accurate, depiction of the world. This sensory input is also highly selective, giving us that slice of reality that proved to be most evolutionarily adaptive. That part of our brain that pays attention then attends to a [...]
Between conferences and interviews, it looks like I will be out of town every other week this semester. To be fair, I was warned, but still, that’s a lot of time in absentia especially considering I still have class and whatnot.
Three cheers for empathetic professors.
Oh, yeah. My abstract got accepted to EPA, but I missed [...]
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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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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Discovery is hosting this huge self-help-through-neuroscience convention in Philly this week. Gazzaniga will be there, and it will be free, so if you can make it there by 7p this Thursday it would be pretty cool to meet him. Levitin will also be there, and apparently he’s got a new book out. Personally, I felt [...]
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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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Saturday, November 15, 2008
So after four hours of analyzing my data with SPSS… I discovered that I have a hot mess. I wish I had more to say, but the truth of the matter is that it’s just a counting game now. What with there being only two and a half weeks of class left, we don’t really [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I went to the lab today to pull some data off of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: like Excel, but engineered for data about people). I actually have a copy, but it’s the student copy that I got for my psych stats class. And by student copy I mean worthless copy. It won’t [...]
Which is my way of saying, via pathetic fallacy, that I’ve gotten very busy (science majors can know literary terms too).
Breakdown of summer research results: we are reasonably confident that something is happening. Like I said earlier, the effect size is small, but it’s consistent across all the stimuli. Furthermore, if we eliminate one participant, [...]
To begin: some preliminary stuff from my summer research. I haven’t gone through the tests yet (and I still have some data to enter), but it looks like we are not going to get a lot of significant results for what I’ve done so far. The effect we are getting is 3 to 4 times [...]