Luc Boutsen

@boutsenl@mastodon.online
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Assistant Professor in psychology in the UK.

Cognitive neuroscience of vision: attention, face & object perception. Neuropsychology, EEG, eye tracking, response times.

Current research: the effect of disfiguring facial features on perception, attention, memory and trait inferences to faces.

I am interested in philosophy (continental), music(ology), opera, arts, and great literature: Dante, Derrida, Joyce, Beckett.

(he/him)

profile @ universityhttps://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/luc-boutsen
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e28Vpu4AAAAJ&hl=en
RT @Katlab_UCL
Wonderful to see our new Centre for Equality Research in Brain Sciences, at @UCLBrainScience, covered by Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01425-y @MiryamNaddaf
‘Intention is not action’: brain-research centre steps up quest for equality

New institute aims to enshrine inclusivity in all aspects of neuroscience and psychology research.

Just out: a special issue in Computational Brain & Behavior on "Bayes Factors for Mixed Models". Great discussion, and all papers open access!
https://link.springer.com/journal/42113/volumes-and-issues/6-1
Computational Brain & Behavior | Volume 6, issue 1

Volume 6, issue 1 articles listing for Computational Brain & Behavior

SpringerLink

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany alongside her brother Hans. Hans was also killed.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons

10 years after we created Registered Reports, the thing critics assured us would never (in a million years) happen has happened: @Nature is offering them.

The Registered Reports initiative just went up a gear and we are one step closer to eradicating publication bias and reporting bias from science.

Congratulations to all involved in achieving this milestone.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2

Nature welcomes Registered Reports

From this week, Nature will be publishing an additional type of research paper — designed to encourage rigour and replication.

RT @BRAINCURES
London taxi drivers: A review of neurocognitive studies and an exploration of how they build their cognitive map of London

Eva-Maria Griesbauer, Ed Manley @edthink @Jan_Wiener @hugospiers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23395/

Journal editing is simultaneously an enormous privilege, a heavy responsibility, and a largely unrecognised addition to our academic workload.

But there are also some lovely human moments.

Thank you to Rob and Sergio. Together, I hope we made our corner of science a little bit better, and I'm sure you will continue do so in my absence.

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223000126

#statcheck v1.4.0 now on CRAN! ✨

🔍 better stats finding
⚙️ completely refactored internals
🧹 cleaner variable names
🐞 squashed some bugs

List of all updates: https://github.com/MicheleNuijten/statcheck/blob/master/NEWS.md

Check it out in #R or visit the web app at http://statcheck.io

statcheck/NEWS.md at master · MicheleNuijten/statcheck

A spellchecker for statistics. Contribute to MicheleNuijten/statcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
We typically use a 5% alpha level. The line in claim making needs to be drawn somewhere. But in this paper https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/25152459221080396 we discuss some scenarios where you might justify using a different alpha level. Balancing error rates is sensible if you want to use data to decide how to continue in a research line, and resources are limited. With large N, it leads to more impressive claims. And in applied research alpha might be set based on a cost benefit analysis.

Our Annual Review piece "Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science" was the 4th most downloaded article across Annual Review journals in 2022 (https://www.annualreviews.org/page/top-2022).

Because of that, they have made the formatted version openly accessible for a limited time (https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-114157).

And, the Green OA version is always open: https://psyarxiv.com/ksfvq/

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10 years after we created Registered Reports, the thing critics assured us would never (in a million years) happen has happened: @Nature is offering them.

The Registered Reports initiative just went up a gear and we are one step closer to eradicating publication bias and reporting bias from science.

Congratulations to all involved in achieving this milestone.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2

@chrisdc77 @Nature It must have been a while since I last said it, but: You are amazing. Breaking down wall, after wall, after wall!

@lakens @Nature Thanks Daniel 🤜 very kind as always! All credit to Magdalena and the teams at various Nature journals who have taken RRs seriously from the early days.

Meanwhile, the nice thing about knocking down walls isthat they're not hard to find - everywhere you look in science you see another one! Onward.

@chrisdc77 @Nature holy guacamole! Well done and thanks for sharing.

@chrisdc77 @Nature

I am amazed. Congratulations to everybody!

@chrisdc77 @Nature

The contrast between the two types of article is going to be sooo jarring.

@chrisdc77 @Nature
"The fundamental principle underpinning a Registered Report is that a journal commits to publishing a paper if the research question and the methodology chosen to address it pass peer review, with the result itself taking a back seat." 👏🏼 Bravo

@chrisdc77 @Nature

The penny has dropped. This means that failures will be reported strengthen #evidence

@Nature @chrisdc77 Sci Reports has been offering them for a while (I’m an editor - just received my first Stage 2, exciting!). Good stuff!