Onboarding

Reality Bending Lab

Welcome!

• About ReBeL
  • Reality
  • Role of Bodily Signals/Interoception & Cognitive Control
  • Metascience
• About you
  • Who are you? Background? Interests?
  • What modules did you like and hate?
  • What would you like to do later (career)?

Supervision

• Weekly lab meetings
  • Presence expected
  • Presentations
  • Occasion to touch base
• Individual meetings and emails
  • Take notes during discussions
• Group chat (discord)
  • Also for you among yourselves
  • memes friendly
• Send emails / messages whenever, but don’t expect an immediate answer
• Do always clean off track changes when sending a new version

Be Collaborative

• Teamwork
  • Lab mates are your best resource
• Good grades are not at the expense of others
  • Helping others will be noticed and will benefit you
• Acknowledge those who helped you
  • Research is not a zero-sum game
  • Give credit where credit is due

Be Open

• Independent intellectually does not mean all-knowing
• Seek help
• Be transparent

Conventions

• No spaces or weird characters in folder and file names
  • c'est mon mémoire!.docx
  • PreregDraft_Makowski.docx
• CamelCase vs. snake_case
  • No kebab-case
  • Also applies to programming

Research Projects - Overview

• Personal projects _{^{(not recommended)}}
• Body and Mind _{^{(physiological signals)}}
• Illusions and Reality Perception _{^{(neuropsychology and consciousness)}}
• Fiction and Arousal _{^{(affective neuroscience)}}
• Validation of ultrabrief measure for depression/anxiety _{^{(clinical psych)}}

Timeline

• Term 1
  1. Familiarize with project
  2. Implement & test paradigm
  3. Week 8 (~20 November): Submit ethics
  4. Project presentation
  5. Write introduction and methods section
• Term 2
  1. Data collection
  2. Data analysis
  3. March: Final project presentation
  4. Write up
  5. Celebrate 🎉

Canvas info

• Dissertation Overview

Marking Criteria

• Scientific quality of the dissertation
  • The closer to a scientific paper the better
  • Show that you read papers beyond what was provided (intro)
  • Show that you understood the results and put them in perspective (discussion)
• Amount of work provided
  • Paradigm implementation _{^{(if applicable)}}
  • Number of participants recruited _{^{(if applicable)}}
• Not influenced by significant results
  • Having found “no significant” effect / hypotheses not proven is absolutely fine!
• Strongly influenced by participation/involvement during the whole year