Jonathan Peelle
Looking for meaningful (mostly auditory) things in the human brain. Excited about neuroscience, #openscience, and inclusiveness. Lab news: @peellelab
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Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities
We use a globally unique dataset that scores every individual academic’s holistic research performance in New Zealand to test several common explanations for the gender pay gap in universities. We find a man’s odds of being ranked professor or...
Billy Joel Plays “Piano Man” for the First Time At the Bar He Based the Song On
Billy Joel sits at the piano in a smoke-filled bar in 1973. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday and he’s just finished performing a new original song enti...
Jonathan Peelle
BILLY JOEL PLAYS “PIANO MAN” FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE BAR HE BASED THE SONG ON
mcsweeneys.net/articles/billy… pic.twitter.com/2fnEtUe3IB
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Can Hearing Aids Help Prevent Dementia?
Research suggests that paying more attention to the “invisible disability” of hearing loss might improve our brains.
Measuring the subjective cost of listening effort using a discounting task
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Jonathan Peelle
@drew_mclaughlin @j_a_westbrook We are grateful for feedback on the preprint, and excited to see where we can go next with this measurement of subjective effort during listening. Stimuli, code (@psychopy), and analyses, are available on OSF: osf.io/8jpnx/files/ (9/9)
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Jonathan Peelle
Very excited this work led by @drew_mclaughlin (with Todd "Not on Twitter" Braver) is now out! We used a discounting paradigm developed for cognitive effort (thanks @j_a_westbrook) to look at subjective effort during listening to speech in noise. (1/)
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Task-evoked pupil response for accurately recognized accented speech
Unfamiliar second-language (L2) accents present a common challenge to speech understanding. However, the extent to which accurately recognized unfamiliar L2-accented speech imposes a greater cognit...
You're not an imposter, and it's not a syndrome
IMposter or imPOSter? However you pronounce it, Julia and Jonathan take on the topic of imposter syndrome, which as it turns out isn’t really a syndrome. Everyone experiences this to various degrees but gosh it can be hard to talk about. Maybe we...
Introduction to FreeSurfer surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu - ppt video online download
Why FreeSurfer? Anatomical analysis is not like functional analysis – it is completely stereotyped. Registration to a template (e.g. MNI/Talairach) doesn’t account for individual anatomy. Even if you don’t care about the anatomy, anatomical ...
Athlete breaks silence about sexual misconduct of University of Guelph’s star coach
Dave Scott-Thomas ran the University of Guelph’s prestigious track program for over 20 years. Now one of his former athletes says he groomed her for sex. More than a decade after school officials first heard her story, he’s been dismissed – and...
Case Study in Review Integrity: Asking for Favorable Treatment
What happens when a former colleague contacts you, a reviewer, out of the blue to ask if the application on which he is a principal investigator could be treated favorably at the review meeting? Do…
Action word meaning representations in cytoarchitectonically defined primary and premotor cortices
Recent models of language comprehension have assumed a tight coupling between the semantic representations of action words and cortical motor areas. W…
Jonathan Peelle
Slightly niche question: Anyone know of good MNI-space maps for premotor areas? i.e. BA6, like those in Fig 1 of
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I thought these were in the SPM Anatomy toolbox once upon a time but don’t see them now…may be misremembering. (BA 4 is there) pic.twitter.com/6M59hftjcP
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From blueprints to brain maps: the status of the Lemma Model in cognitive neuroscience
(2019). From blueprints to brain maps: the status of the Lemma Model in cognitive neuroscience. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience: Vol. 34, Thirty years of 'Speaking'. Guest Editors: Antje S. Meyer, Ardi Roelofs & Laurel Brehm, pp. 1085-1116.
OHBM EquinoX Twitter Conference 20/March/2020 #OBHMX
OHBM EquinoX Twitter Conference 20/March/2020 – Abstract submission opening 1st of February.
Registered Reports are Coming to PLOS ONE | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.
Episode 3: Join the resistance
Listen to this episode from The juice and the squeeze on Spotify. After a brief diversion for f/u we have a quick chat about the importance of having a website if you’re an academic. Taking time off from work (during the day, week, or year) seems...