Holcombe:Presenting

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Poster making

• hp poster printer in psych IT area has roll paper width of 1065 mm
• VSS 2008: Posterboards are 4’ (121.92 cm) tall x 8’ (243.84 cm) wide

Making demos of stimuli (for webs for example)

• Using Psychopy or Visionegg you can create a gif. Then you import the gif using flash macromedia. You can adjust the speed manipulating the frame duration (Modify document). Finally, you export the file as a swf.

Phrases for grants and papers

Words for theories and hypotheses

• notion
• idea
• generalization
• claim
• framework

Going from evidence to conclusion with a verb. Different ways, in rough descending order of strength

• Proves that (largely banned from the empirical sciences)
• Shows that
• Demonstrates that
• Implies that
• It follows that
• Reveals
• convey
• Uncovers (rarely useful)
• Indicates that (I like this one because it's strong but unobtrusive)
• Suggests that
• Supports the
• Bolsters, buttressses
• in accord with
• Is evidence for
• Weighs on the side of
• Hint that
• Is consistent with
• Is not inconsistent with
• assesses

Negative impact of evidence on a theory, claim, conclusion, or criticism

• Disconfirms the
• Undermines
• Counters
• Detracts from
• Contrasts with

Fluff and emphasis

• Remarkably,
• This striking result
• Provides the opportunity to
• For the first time,

We shouldn't care about 2007 ISI impact factors

• Science 30
• Nature 26.7
• Nat Rev NEurosci 24.5
• BBS 17.462
• Nat Neurosci 15.7
• PLoS Biol 14.1
• Neuron 13.4
• Trends Neuro 12.5
• Current Biology 10.5
• PNAS 9.6
• TiCS 9.4
• Brain 8.6
• Psych Review 7.8
• J Neurosci 7.5
• JCN 5
• Proc Royal Society Biol 4.1
• Cogni Psych 4.0
• Cognition 3.8
• JoV 3.8
• J Neurophysiology 3.7
• JEP:HPP 2.6
• Vision Research 2.1
• Cogn Neuropsych 1.9
• Visual Cognition 1.7
• Perception 1.6
• Memory & Cognition 1.6
• Percept Psychophy 1.4
• QJEP 1.1
• Spatial Vision .94

See Eigenfactor for better rankings.