What are you doing right now?

[xSilverPhinx]

Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.

[Sandra Craft]

Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.

That does sound good.  Must remember to get yogurt and granola at the store.

[xSilverPhinx]

Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.

That does sound good.  Must remember to get yogurt and granola at the store.

I have six packs of granola weighing 1 kg each in my pantry. They were on sale. 

I have to find good uses for them fast.

[xSilverPhinx]

Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.

[Dave]

Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.

Good luck (with getting a good audience)

[xSilverPhinx]

Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.

Good luck (with getting a good audience)

Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation.

[Sandra Craft]

Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.

Good luck (with getting a good audience)

Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation.

So . . . how did it go, and what was it about?

[xSilverPhinx]

Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.

Good luck (with getting a good audience)

Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation.

So . . . how did it go, and what was it about?

The presentation went well. It was a presentation for the people at the lab (we all take turns presenting a paper to the rest), and some of them showed up. I presented a paper that was about memory reconsolidation  and how certain types of cues are better than others. They also show the left hippocampus is more activated than the right when they presented reminder cues (that reactivated the memory) or interference cues (which made the memory susceptible to interference) to human subjects in an fMRI, after training them to associate certain words with certain images.

I'm not used to reading papers on studies using human subjects, so it was a challenge, but an interesting challenge.



Funny thing, I really have to learn how to keep my mouth shut at times. Yesterday evening I sent a message to the professor asking if he was going to present the second half of a lecture he had prepared on statistics and the reproducibility crisis that psychological sciences are going through right now, and in his reply he said that he hadn't finished preparing it and asked if I would present a paper instead.

:-|

So I said yes, of course I would gladly present one of the papers he had suggested. This was as at 6:44 pm yesterday   

So...at around 2 am there I was frantically reading the paper for the 13th time and preparing powerpoint slides. Did I mention I have to learn how to keep my mouth shut? 

But I'm glad I did. It's a paper from the research group that we will be collaborating with during my master's, and I understood their protocol a little better after reading the paper as many times.

[Dave]

Sounds like a good result all round!

[xSilverPhinx]

Sounds like a good result all round!

Yes, I felt  really good about it after I came home and took a power nap. 

[Magdalena]

The presentation went well.
...

I'm just reading wonderful news right now. 

[Sandra Craft]

Sounds like a good result all round!

Yes, I felt  really good about it after I came home and took a power nap. 

Sleeping cures nearly everything.

[Sandra Craft]

The presentation went well.
...

I'm just reading wonderful news right now. 

Can we know?  (preliminary rejoicing) 

[Magdalena]

I'm drinking red wine.