Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
Quote of the Week – Planck
“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.” – Max Planck
Dissertation: Defense Video
Have you ever sat there and thought how your life would be much more complete if you could just learn more about interoceptive development? Well my friends, worry no more. By watching this video of my dissertation defense presentation you too can know far more about this amazing topic. Title: “The Integration of Higher Cognition […]
Dissertation: Defended
It has been a very long road to get to this day, but after five years at Dartmouth College I have successfully defended my dissertation and completed my PhD. [whoa!] My public talk went rather well despite the anxiety that was welling up inside. I may have stuttered a big more than average, but not […]
Twas the night before Christmas
I am aware of how cliché it is to parody this poem. Still, in the wee hours this Christmas morning I was too weak to resist the temptation. Please to enjoy… —————————————————————- ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Everyone was sleeping, as I left-clicked my mouse. The data was organized hierarchically […]
Quote of the Week – Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams, “Last Chance to See”
Quote of the Week – Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. […]
I am a tour de force
The boss (Abigail Baird) was very kind in her recent interview for the Association for Psychological Science: Rising Stars: Abigail Baird Also, my paper was her favorite. That is like your mother calling you her favorite child. ;)
Quote of the Week – Shakespeare
“I would that there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest. For there is nothing in between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing and fighting” – Shakespeare, “Winter’s Tale”, 1565
Statistical Laws
I was clearing out some old files in my office this weekend when I came across a collection of notes from my early years in grad school. One set was from a graduate statistics course taught by my current advisor, George Wolford. On the last day of the course his goal was to give us […]
Quote of the Week – Tulving
“…the single most critical piece of equipment is still the researcher’s own brain. All the equipment in the world will not help us if we do not know how to use it properly, which requires more than just knowing how to operate it. Aristotle would not necessarily have been more profound had he owned a […]