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Open-source software for analyzing Electrodermal activity
I have found a list of Python and Matlab packages. I'll summarize them over here. As soon as I have gone through the packages, I'll provide some additional details.
Online
edaExplorer: Also in Python....
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Differential equations in psychology
The Hodgkin and Huxley model of neuronal firing is based on non-linear differential equations. A significant portion of research on sensation and perception is based on such models.
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Physiology behind EEG measurements
EEG research all started with Hans Berger, who in 1929 reported that brain activity could be recorded by measuring electrical activity on the scalp. Although the notion of ‘brain waves’ that were ...
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Freeware for measuring keystroke duration
Psychopy (http://psychopy.org) can do this. It can do it in two ways.
Using iohub. Iohub is a crazy powerful way to get any information about any kind of input to your system, from keyboard, mouse, ...
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Where to post online psychology studies for participant recruitment?
After I had finished writing my master's thesis in 2015, I decided to (try to) tackle the problem of small sample sizes with a new approach. The goal was to develop a website that allows everyone to ...
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Why compare a target group to a control group when population norms are available?
Say your juvenile offender are on average 16 year old boys from Britain, and the control group consists of (on average) 16 year old British boys who haven't done anything wrong. The only difference ...
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How to analyze event-related fMRI data with missing fMRI trigger in logfile?
I can see one case in which you still might analyze the data.
This only works under three conditions:
your paradigm has no variable durations of either stimulus presentations or breaks or others (or ...
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What is the difference between RR-intervals and NN-intervals in HRV-data?
The difference is rather simple. NN-intervals refer to the intervals between normal R-peaks. During a measurement, artifacts may arise due to arrhythmic events or faulty sensors, for example (Citi, ...
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Should I look at the data of an experiment before the dataset is complete?
Short answer
From an ethical standpoint, not including interim evaluations may be bad practice.
Background
I will start off with a more extreme case than in your question example, just for ...
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Should I look at the data of an experiment before the dataset is complete?
gjacob is correct that optional stopping is a common research degree of freedom, and one that has a considerable and unfortunate intuitive basis. Yet, depending on the context of your research, AliceD'...
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In general, how does one resolve two competing theories in Psychology?
Almost every pair of theories on that list sets up a false dichotomy.
It is not an issue of one theory over another; at issue is how much different explanations apply to different circumstances. ...
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Recommended resources (journals, blogs, etc) for nurturing a background of statistical/methodological rigour in behavioural science research?
There are various loosely-defined 'camps' among reform-minded methodologists, so you probably want to try to follow a representative of each.
Andrew Gelman is a prominent landmark in this area, and ...
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How to answer questions that don't seem to be possible to be answered on a Strongly disagree - Strongly agree scale and what's their point?
Really good question - I've had this exact conversation with a student.
It's important to understand that mature scales are validated:
In the fields of psychological testing and educational ...
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Is there a list of large-scale, free datasets with psychological variables?
Participants at the last meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science developed a list of >100 such datasets with some metadata such as topic, country, total number of ...
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Free online intelligence test with norm table, high reliability, and must be printable?
I just found out about ICAR.
The International Cognitive Ability Resource is a public-domain
assessment tool which aims to encourage the broader assessment of
cognitive abilities in psychology ...
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Open source software for running Internet psychological experiments that collect reaction time data
This is in development within PsychoPy. Porting has begun on the Python lib underlying PsychoPy into a JavaScript lib (PsychoJS) and the Builder graphical interface can now generate the necessary html/...
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How do you analyse visual analogue scales with an ambiguous response?
I am not an expert on these scales, but my 2-cents worth would be the following, which are simple work-arounds to include all the data:
Fine as is;
Take the middle of the thick line (the 'average');
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What can clinical psychologists do that psychiatrists can't do?
Short answer is that psychiatrists are medical doctors and (more often than not) medical researchers, and thus psychiatrists themselves often do not practice psychotherapy.
Psychiatrists
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In what order do you preprocess EEG data?
You kind of have to do some kind of baseline correction first (or a highpass filter on the unepoched data) because of slow drifting. Lowpass filtering before artifact rejection is fine as long as you ...
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Differential equations in psychology
A large and notable area within psychology to which differential equations are central is dynamical systems theory. It is widely applied to cognitive science. Differential equations are used to ...
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How to measure galvanic skin response with wearables?
A system that I am currently testing is the MoviSens EdaMove. The system consists of a small device that can be attached to the arm, and two electrodes to measures EDA at the palms of your hand. The ...
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How to measure galvanic skin response with wearables?
iMotions has a pocket guide on GSR targeting a layman audience (believe the PDF you can request might be more up-to-date). One key thing to point out is (emphasis added):
Our body has about three ...
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John Calhoun's Mouse Utopia and Genetic Diversity
Quick (short answer)
No, Calhoon did not account for genetic diversity in his experiments outlined in your question.
Full answer
Reading the article you mentioned, Calhoun (1962) started with wild ...
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How to calculate absolute power for EEG from power spectra density?
I had to do some searching to be able to answer this question. As a matter of fact, a similar questions was once asked on Signal Processing.
To make the explanation more laymen-like, I think the ...
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How to track eye movements with electrodes?
I believe this tutorial covers exactly what you are looking for. It describes how to use a relatively cheap kit ($150) to detect eye movements and eye blinks. It includes software and hardware ...
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How exactly does transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) work?
I'm not sure at what level of sophistication you expect this answer, but the basic theory of how tDCS works at a cellular level is that neurons oriented roughly parallel to the electric field lines ...
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What is the best unobtrusive and objective method to measure mental workload?
There are different parameters you can use, but as the question is not clear what exactly you want to do , I think with EEG and Task Load Index (TLI) you are good to go.
The Task load index (TLI) ...
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How do Terence Tao's "three stages of rigorousness" relate to cognitive science?
Mathematics is the
abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure mathematics), or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied ...
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How to report a quasi-experiment in APA?
The distinction between experiment and quasi-experiment is often made in undergraduate psychology courses.
In general, the term quasi-experiment is used to identify studies that fall short of a ...
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