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May 21 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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May 15 |
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Getting started with EEG data added 72 characters in body |
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May 15 |
answered | Getting started with EEG data |
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May 12 |
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Math or Physics: Which is the more relevant background to enter Cognitive Sciences and Psychology? @ArtemKaznatcheev - I agree, and I later thought of an additional reason for not knowing so many mathematicians in the field: there's just less of them overall. On the other hand, physicists are actively working on improving the neuroimaging techniques we use, whereas the mathematicians I meet (through my pure mathematician husband) have completely different interests. But this is very specific to neuroimaging, which was not exactly the question. |
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Apr 28 |
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Math or Physics: Which is the more relevant background to enter Cognitive Sciences and Psychology? +1. My background is psychology but I'm doing cognitive neuroscience now, and I see more physicists than mathematicians in the field. |
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Mar 26 |
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Practical Use For a Neuroimager what is an sdk? |
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Mar 9 |
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Is there a metric of the overall excitation of the brain or nervous system? Note that a person engaged in conversation will have numerous muscle artifacts in the MEG. This is a big problem for drawing conclusions about what's going on in the brain. |
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Mar 9 |
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Is there a metric of the overall excitation of the brain or nervous system? "Readings from two different people on this scale should be comparable based on the orders of magnitude for the unit measurement." But not directly, because the strength of activation strongly depends on the distance from the MEG helmet, and this varies from session to session. A normalized baseline to peak measure for every subject would work though. |
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Mar 4 |
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In what order do people notice another person's attributes (race, age, gender, etc.) Not a well defended guess but a vague memory of a paper I once read: age and gender get priority, or at least are hardest to deliberately ignore. |
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Feb 20 |
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Does an exceptional working memory inhibit intelligence? Both the Wechsler scale and the old Binet-Simon test as well as some tests used for clinical purposes have a subtest which is essentially a WM capacity test: remembering rows of numbers, repeating them forwards and backwards. How well people do on this subtest is thus directly related to the IQ score they will get. |
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Feb 16 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 9 |
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Images on personal computers - Which aspect of size to keep constant? Would it be possible for you to change the screen resolution on the patients' computers for the duration of the study? You could pick a low resolution that anyone's screen can do, and use a constant distance as well. |
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Nov 21 |
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Ignoring minority while generalizing about a group, any theoretical reference? Exactly. It's much more plausible to assume that the exceptions are a given, than that people really think that all Russians must like vodka. |
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Nov 8 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 4 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Nov 2 |
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Is the Neanderthal Theory of Autistic brain a reasonable scientific theory? What is Neanderthal DNA anyway? We share 40% of our DNA with cabbage... would it make sense to call that Cabbage DNA then? And compare who has more or less of it, then correlate with personality traits? The concept seems terribly pseudoscientific to me. |
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Oct 19 |
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Is there a better way to describe brain activity than EEG “brain waves” added 282 characters in body |
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Oct 9 |
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Is there a better way to describe brain activity than EEG “brain waves” @AlexStone, you're quite welcome :) About MEG: electricity and magnetism are two aspects of the same phenomenon, electromagnetic force. Whenever electrical current flows down something (such as a dendrite), a magnetic field is generated around it. You can then measure either the electric or the magnetic activity, depending on the equipment you have. The output you get is very similar. (disclaimer: I'm not a technical person, this is just my understanding of how this works) |
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Oct 9 |
answered | Is there a better way to describe brain activity than EEG “brain waves” |
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Aug 26 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
