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Sussex Psychological Methods MRes: Tips and Advice
Ola! I’m Ana. The time has come to share my experience of doing a research masters in psychological methods at the University of Sussex
Ana Neves
Mar 19, 2024
6 min read
Reality Bending Lab
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University of Sussex
How to Assess Task Reliability using Bayesian Mixed Models
Task reliability in assessing inter-individual differences is a key issue for differential psychology and neuropsychology.
Dominique Makowski
Mar 18, 2024
6 min read
R
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Statistics
Junior Research Assistant (JRA) at Sussex: is it worth it?
I worked as a Psychology JRA during summer 2023 at the Reality Bending Lab. Here is how it went.
Jing Xu
Nov 2, 2023
3 min read
Reality Bending Lab
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University of Sussex
How do we know what is real? The 'Affective Reality Theory'
The Affective Reality Theory posits that affective reactions are key to the formation of reality beliefs.
Dominique Makowski
Apr 11, 2023
6 min read
Reality
I got ChatGPT to do a personality test. You won't believe what happened next!
Following my previous blog post about including AIs in psychological experiments, I proceeded to do a small experiment to see whether we could administer a personality scale to ChatGPT.
Dominique Makowski
Apr 6, 2023
2 min read
Personality
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Reality
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AI
We should treat AIs like Human participants in psychological experiments
A lot of diverse and interesting perspectives have been recently discussed is regards to chatGPT and AGI, but there is one opinion that I found particularly relevant that I wanted to expand on.
Dominique Makowski
Apr 5, 2023
4 min read
Fiction
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Reality
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AI
When fiction is better than reality: Cypher's Complex
Ever felt like reality was dull as compared to a fictional world? You might have experienced Cypher’s Complex
Dominique Makowski
Feb 7, 2023
3 min read
Fiction
,
Reality
New location and new logo!
The Reality Bending Lab is moving to the UK, and we’re revealing the new logo to celebrate its official start!
Dominique Makowski
Feb 1, 2023
2 min read
Reality Bending Lab
About signal complexity
We recently did a bit of groundwork to better understand how to use signal complexity in neurophysiology.
Stephanie Kirk
Dec 5, 2022
1 min read
Complexity Science
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EEG
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Psychology
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Neurokit2
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Neurophysiology
NeuroKit2 0.2.0 is out 🎉
NeuroKit2 0.2.0 is out with greater a brand new website and documentation!
Dominique Makowski
May 18, 2022
1 min read
Python
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EEG
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Psychology
Podcast 'Learn Bayesian Stats' with Dominique Makowski
In the latest episode of the ‘Learning Bayesian Statistics’ podcast, we talk about R, Python, Reality Bending and more!
Dominique Makowski
Feb 1, 2022
1 min read
Neuropsychology
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Reality Bending
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R
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Python
We're recruiting a Research Assistant!
We’re recruiting a Research Assistant to work on a new exciting project on neuroscience and aesthetics in urban environments.
Dominique Makowski
Dec 1, 2021
1 min read
Neuropsychology
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Jobs
Pyllusion has been published
Pyllusion, the software for creating illusions in Python, has been published.
An-Shu Te
Nov 30, 2021
1 min read
Neuropsychology
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Perception
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Reality
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Reproducibility
NeuroKit2 0.1.5 'Complexity' is out 🎉
NeuroKit2 0.1.5 is out with greater support for complexity analysis of neurophysiological signals
Zen J. Lau
Nov 12, 2021
1 min read
Python
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EEG
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Psychology
"Your sample is too small": How to Answer to Reviewers
Some tips on how to answer to reviewers when they say the sample is too small but that we cannot increase it.
Dominique Makowski
Nov 5, 2021
3 min read
Reproducibility
How to sync two folders in two separate GitHub repositories
Say you have a repo A, in which you want to duplicate some content with repo B. You can do that easily using GitHub actions.
Dominique Makowski
Oct 31, 2021
2 min read
Reproducibility
The symbolism behind the ReBeL logo
Can you guess all the hidden symbols and elements present in our logo?
Dominique Makowski
Jun 30, 2021
3 min read
Art
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Reality Bending
How to share data analysis scripts with publications?
Including data analysis as Supplementary Materials can be a tedious task. How can we simplify the sharing of our work? So that it can be fully appreciated, as well as evaluated, improved, worked on, in a transparent and open way?
Dominique Makowski
Feb 10, 2021
4 min read
R
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Reproducibility
What visual agnosia might feel like
Can you name one thing in this photo? It all looks familiar, but something is off.
Dominique Makowski
Jan 3, 2021
3 min read
Art
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Neuropsychology
Time as a computational limit
Note: this is a thought-experiment, not to be taken too seriously. We live in a simulated universe In his famous simulation argument, the transhumanist Bostrom (2003, 2011) posits that we are living in a computer-generated reality.
Dominique Makowski
Nov 13, 2020
8 min read
Philosophy
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Science Fiction
What is Reality Bending?
As you know, reality bending is my primary research direction. However, it is not (yet) a well-established scientific topic, nor is it clearly defined. In fact, it is not defined at all, hence the purpose of this article.
Dominique Makowski
Sep 28, 2020
3 min read
Psychology
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Neuropsychology
How to extract individual scores from repeated measures
We compare different methods (individual models, Bayesian models with informative priors, random effects from mixed models) to extract individual scores from repeated measures tasks.
Dominique Makowski
Sep 14, 2020
8 min read
R
,
Statistics
What is neuropsychology?
In which I discuss the place of neuropsychology in the galaxy of sciences, its structure and its definition.
Dominique Makowski
Sep 13, 2020
7 min read
Neuropsychology
Why psychologists should join GitHub
Top reasons why engaging into GitHub will give you the edge and benefit psychological science.
Dominique Makowski
May 27, 2020
9 min read
Psychology
R or Python for Psychologists
Most psychology students or researchers are faced with the challenge of learning a programming language. Which one should you pick?
Dominique Makowski
May 22, 2020
9 min read
R
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Python
,
Psychology
How to correctly analyze reaction time (RT) data
Most researchers use the normal distribution to model reaction times, but it’s wrong! Discover how to perform a good analysis of RT data.
Dominique Makowski
May 18, 2020
1 min read
R
,
Statistics
One Python code line for a Mandelbrot fractal
Create a Mandelbrot or Buddhabrot fractal in Python using NeuroKit.
Dominique Makowski
May 16, 2020
1 min read
Python
,
NeuroKit
In defence of the 95% CI
The one where I discuss arguments in favour of 95% instead of alternatives like 90 or 89%.
Dominique Makowski
May 15, 2020
1 min read
R
,
Statistics
Introduction to Bayesian statistics with R
A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics with R for people not familiar with any of these.
Dominique Makowski
May 14, 2020
1 min read
R
,
Statistics
Generate an articial ECG signal in Python
Simulate a synthetic but realistic ECG signal in Python using NeuroKit.
Dominique Makowski
May 17, 2019
2 min read
Python
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NeuroKit
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Biosignals
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