We are looking for interesting data and stories about experiments that did not make it to the public eye – maybe they failed completely, maybe authors couldn’t agree on what they meant, maybe they just got forgotten. A PhD may not fit in a scientific article, and we want to hear what was left out of yours.
Chatting with our guts: in search of the ideal control
I am an academic rookie: a late-PhD rookie, but still a rookie. During all these rookie years, if there is one thing I believe to have learned, it is the importance of looking for the ideal experimental control. And if I am second-guessing the whole experiment, the importance of performing an entirely new experiment as a control for the first one. Hence the title. If I may add some context: ...
Reasons not to have sex before fMRI experiments
I started my PhD on human values and motivations looking forward to use some elegant functional neuroimaging techniques. The project aimed to investigate human basic motivations (e.g. food, sex and affiliative) as well as more complex ones (e.g. benevolence, tradition, power and achievement). In order to study ...