Minding the Brain

Has this ever happened to you? I hate it when the labels on the x-axis overlap, but this can be hard to avoid. I can stretch the figur...

I don't usually like to use complex statistical methods, but every once in a while I encounter a method that is so useful that I can...

How to get parameter-specific p -values is one of the most commonly asked questions about multilevel regression. The key issue is that...

Since it is the season for graduate school recruitment interviews, I thought I would share some of my thoughts. This is also partly prompte...

As I mentioned in an earlier post , last June I had the great pleasure and honor of participating in a discussion meeting on Language in D...

Malcolm Gladwell is great at writing anecdotes, but he dangerously masquerades these as science.  Case studies can be incredibly informati...

The "mind as computer" has been a dominant and powerful metaphor in cognitive science at least since the middle of the 20th cen...