Registered Replication In Social Psychology – Our contribution and amazing...
Tracy Caldwell and I have a new paper out which we’re very proud of [1]–a registered replication of a previous finding that superstition can cause a substantial improvement in skilled performance [2]....
View ArticleNew Publication – Microarray analysis of sensitization
We’ve got a new paper out [1] with the first of what we hope will be a series of studies using microarray to track the transcriptional changes following long-term sensitization training. This paper...
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SFN Round 14 – Kicking a** and taking numbers
The Sluglab went to Washington D.C. for the 2014 Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. This is either the 13th or 14th time Irina and I have been. Despite the mileage, we had a great meeting, and...
View ArticleSluglab Strikes Again – New paper tracing dynamics of learning-induced...
A nice way to wrap up 2014–we have a new paper out [1] where we trace learning-induced changes in transcription over time and over different location in the CNS. We think it’s a nice follow-up to the...
View Article2014×3 – Transcriptional correlates of long-term habituation
Third paper of the year for the lab (gasp!) is now out in Learning and Memory [1]. The focus of the project is habituation, considered the simplest and most ancient form of memory. Long-term...
View ArticleQualtrics Tips – A HTML5 and JavaScript Mirror-Tracing Task
Social relationships can confer power on some to control the fates of others. There is a large and growing body of social-psychology research examining the psychological effects of power, with...
View ArticleQualtrics Tips – A HTML5 and JavaScript Word-Search Task
Here’s a second experimental task I wrote for use with online social psychology experiments. This one is a word search. Again, the code is a series of kludges cobbled together from examples I could...
View ArticleNew Publication on ERIN, Educational Resources in Neuroscience
Just after I started at Dominican in 2007 I had the good fortune to team up with Richard Olivo to help in the development of ERIN, an online curated database of educational resources for neuroscience....
View ArticleWhat’s the best way to teach methods and statistics?
No easy answer, but I’m co-author on a new paper that has some hints [1]. Well, actually, it’s just a summary of some assessment data my department has been collecting to help evaluate an integrated...
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Grant Awarded to study the mechanisms of sensitization maintenance and decay
Woot! The Slug Lab has just been awarded a 3-year R15 grant from NIH to study the transcriptional mechanisms of sensitization memory and decay. What does that mean? It means that Irina and I will...
View ArticleRest easy — organic food probably does not make you into a jerk…
My student Eileen Moery and I have a new paper out today in Social Psychology and Personality Science. It’s a replication paper that I’m quite proud of [1]. It represents some evolution in how I’m...
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Pre-Order Now: Introduction to the New Statistics
Can a statistics textbook change the world? Maybe yes! At least that’s the aspiration behind Introduction to the New Statistics: Estimation, Open Science and Beyond, a new textbook by Geoff Cumming...
View ArticleMy commencement address: On the frontal-lobe function of dogs
This year I was elected by the DU faculty to give the commencement address during our undergraduate commencement. I took it as an opportunity to talk about frontal-lobe function in dogs… it turned out...
View ArticleMoral Perfection via Neuroscience?
This is a talk I gave at the 2013 Caritas & Veritas symposium at Dominican University. It’s about the quest to use technology to control morality, and covers some early attempts in this direction...
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APS Presentations
APS was in Chicago this year, so the replicators I have been supervising were out in full force. Clinton Sanchez presented his replications of a study claiming that analytic thinking promotes...
View ArticleAPS Workshop on Involving Undergraduates in Replications
I had the pleasure of presenting with Geoff Cumming, John Grahe, and Fiona Fidler at this year’s APS meeting on the topic of involving students in replication projects (also, our discussant was...
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Maintaining Memories, Changing Transcription
Under the right circumstances, a memory can last a lifetime. Yet at the molecular level the brain is constantly in flux: the typical protein has a half-life of only a few hours to days; for mRNA a...
View ArticleGetting Started with the New Statistics – A talk at Indiana University
This fall I (Bob) was invited to give a talk at Indiana University as part of a series on good science and statistical practice organized by the university’s Social Science Research Commons (which is...
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The New Statistics for Neuroscience Education.
This summer I (Bob) was asked to write a series of perspective pieces on statistical issues for the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience. My first effort has just been published–it is a call for...
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Slug Lab – Distinguished Service Awards from the Faculty for Undergraduate...
At this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting, Irina and I were honored for our contributions to the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN). Specifically, we were both given the annual...
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