… was great! I presented on the second day of the conference, and it was probably the most gratifying thing I have done in academia so far. It was my first time presenting anything at an academic conference, but after the first couple of people, my nervousness disappeared. Everyone was extremely nice, and I got [...]
This is fast turning into a blog about movies and skiing, which shouldn’t be the case. But when your life is centered around neuroscience, movies and skiing, and the neuroscience is still unresolved, movies must take up some space. However, I recently had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Christoph Koch [go explore his website [...]
So we have made progress in the experiment I am doing at Professor Peter Tse’s lab at Dartmouth College. We have settled on four preliminary conditions, and are now getting ready to do some pilot testing to a) figure out if we can make people see about 50 % local and 50 % global in [...]
This is the prototype of one kind of stimuli that we will be using in the fMRI project that I am currently taking part in. The idea is that you can see this stimuli in two ways, either local (pairs of dots spinning around each other) or global (two squares spinning around each other, or [...]
Yeah, so I got the data back from the fMRI experiment that I took part in and played around with them a little. Besides from the fun, it feels pretty weird looking at your second favourite organ (apologies to Woody Allen) in this way. You can help but think: “Is this it?” But maybe that’s [...]