Month: November 2015

Neuroscientific research suffers from small subject samples, lack of theory and lack of consensus on data analysis protocols. This leads to experiments with p-values that contain large errors of measurement, where publication is selectively limited to those that (sometimes randomly) fall below 0.05. Such a situation leads to any one study result being unreliable, which … [Read more…]

This text came to life with the purpose of kicking off a discussion in Kia Nobre’s Brain and Cognition lab, about best research practices. For a few years now, I’ve been following the debate on the replication crisis in psychology from the sidelines. Here, I will present what I do to integrate that knowledge into how I … [Read more…]