O'Dhaniel Lab

06/11/2017

P-hacking, the selective reporting of statistically significant analyses, continues to threaten the integrity of our discipline. P-hacking is inevitable whenever (1) a researcher hopes to find evid…

04/10/2017

Affiliations Optimize Science, Mill Valley, California, United States of America, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

14/09/2017

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14/09/2017

Research institutions should explicitly seek job candidates who can be frankly self-critical of their work, says Jeffrey Flier.

07/09/2017

New lab paper just published, examining the neural mechanisms through which emotional stimuli modulate moral judgments.

Moral judgments are not just the product of conscious reasoning, but also involve the integration of social and emotional information. Irrelevant disgust stimuli modulate moral judgments, with individual sensitivity determining the direction and size of effects across both hypothetical and incentive...

27/08/2017

Russ Poldrack - Neurohackweek - Improving the Reproducibility of Neuroimaging Research

04/08/2017

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Anatomical, neuroimaging and lesion studies indicate that prefrontal cortex (PFC) can be subdivided into different subregions supporting distinct aspects of decision making. However, explanations of neuronal computations within these subregions varies widely across studies. An integrated and mechani...

27/05/2017

03/05/2017

Always look at your data - descriptive statistics are not sufficient!!!

Datasets which are identical over a number of statistical properties, yet produce dissimilar graphs, are frequently used to illustrate the importance of graphical representations when exploring data. This paper presents a novel method for generating such datasets, along with several examples. Our te...

07/04/2017

Cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett believes the human brain might not be that special.

20/03/2017

I’ve been on Twitter since April 2011 — nearly six years. A few weeks ago, for the first time, something I tweeted broke the thousand-retweets barrier. And I am really unhappy about it.…

15/03/2017

Conditioning on a collider - interesting!

Reading skills of children correlate with their shoe size. Number of storks in an area correlates with birth rate. Ice cream sales correlate with deaths by drowning. Maybe they used different examples to teach you, but I’m pretty sure that we’ve all learned about confounding variables during our und