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For questions about experimental and theoretical methods, procedures, and tools used while conducting research in the cognitive sciences.

For questions about experimental and theoretical methods, procedures, and tools used while conducting research in the cognitive sciences.

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Which study design to use: nested case-control or case-cohort?

I am following a cohort of patients over time from which I am planning to sub-sample a sub-group of patients to pilot a new intervention. The plan is to compare the effectiveness of the new intervention on improving specific outcomes for a…
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How to measure galvanic skin response with wearables?

I'm trying to measure galvanic skin response in real-time with a wrist-wearable device, similar to what is being done in the paper "Using Noninvasive Wearable Computers to Recognize Human Emotions from Physiological Signals" which is used the, now…
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How effective are online providers of paid participants for psychological experiments?

I'm looking for places to recruit participants for online experiments, and in particular, for experiments using Inquisit Web. My lab used to recruit participants through M-Turk but that's no longer an option for us. I saw similar questions: How to…
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How to intelligently resolve WinTabMex error in Psychtoolbox on Windows 7?

While piloting a task in psychtoolbox and exiting via (ctrl-c --> sca), I receive this error: Error using WinTabMex Tried to initialize WinTab, but it is already initialized! Call code 1 (Shutdown) first! How do I call code 1 or otherwise…
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Discovery of “Functions of Brain”

As far as I know, Physical Experimentation of Human Brain is not possible. So how does people come up with the idea that different parts of brain is associated with different specific functions? and Who found it? Example: Cerebrum for memory,…
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What is the difference between mathematical psychology and quantitative psychology?

Upon researching this question I realized that there are many graduate programs in quantitative psychology, but not too many for mathematical psychology. If you know of any universities that offer graduate degrees specializing in mathematical…
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Is there a way to study the effects of Ex-Post Facto variables using Single-Case Experimental Designs?

Suppose we want to compare patients in different stages of cancer in terms of the dependent variable X. One way is to group them with large sample sizes and compare them using parametric statistics. But if access to the sample is limited, what other…
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