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Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions (2024)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Marsh, J., Dijkstra, T., & Conklin, K. (2024). Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241288516

Abstract
Response times and their distributions serve as a powerful lens into cognitive processes. We present a novel statistical methodology called stratified distributional analysis (SDA) to quantitatively assess how key determinants of response t... Read More about Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions.

The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2024)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (in press). The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics,

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Şaylı, M., Skeldon, A. C., Thul, R., Nicks, R., & Coombes, S. (2023). The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 444, Article 133595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2022.133595

Since its inception four decades ago the two-process model introduced by Borbély has provided the conceptual framework to explain sleep–wake regulation across many species, including humans. At its core, high level notions of circadian and homeostati... Read More about The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective.

Word and Multiword Processing (2022)
Book Chapter
Conklin, K., & Thul, R. (2022). Word and Multiword Processing. In A. Godfroid, & H. Hopp (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (203-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018872-20

When we encounter linguistic input, both spoken and written, we need to identify words and multiword sequences (e.g., “spill the beans” meaning “to reveal a secret”), ascertain their meaning, and integrate them into our unfolding understanding of a s... Read More about Word and Multiword Processing.

Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning (2021)
Journal Article
Modhara, S., Lai, Y. M., Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2021). Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20(3), 1596-1620. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1364710

The understanding of how spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity may arise in the cortex of the brain has advanced with the development and analysis of neural field models. Replicating this success for subcortical tissues, such as the thalamus, r... Read More about Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning.

Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit (2021)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Conklin, K., & Barr, D. J. (2021). Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit. Journal of Memory and Language, 120, Article 104247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104247

Data from each subject in a repeated-measures experiment forms a time series , which may include trial-by-trial fluctuations arising from human factors such as practice or fatigue. Concerns about the statistical implications of such effects have incr... Read More about Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit.

Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning (2021)
Journal Article
Modhara, S., Lai, Y. M., Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2021). Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20(3), 1596-1620. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1364710

The understanding of how spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity may arise in the cortex of the brain has advanced with the development and analysis of neural field models. To replicate this success for sub-cortical tissues, such as the thalamus,... Read More about Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning.

Calcium buffers and L-type calcium channels as modulators of cardiac subcellular alternans (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, Y. M., Coombes, S., & Thul, R. (2020). Calcium buffers and L-type calcium channels as modulators of cardiac subcellular alternans. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 85, Article 105181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2020.105181

In cardiac myocytes, calcium cycling links the dynamics of the membrane potential to the activation of the contractile filaments. Perturbations of the calcium signalling toolkit have been demonstrated to disrupt this connection and lead to numerous p... Read More about Calcium buffers and L-type calcium channels as modulators of cardiac subcellular alternans.

A master stability function approach to cardiac alternans (2019)
Journal Article
Lai, Y. M., Veasy, J., Coombes, S., & Thul, R. (2019). A master stability function approach to cardiac alternans. Applied Network Science, 4(1), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0199-z

During a single heartbeat, muscle cells in the heart contract and relax. Under healthy conditions, the behaviour of these muscle cells is almost identical from one beat to the next. However, this regular rhythm can be disturbed giving rise to a varie... Read More about A master stability function approach to cardiac alternans.

A statistical view on calcium oscillations (2019)
Journal Article
Powell, J., Falcke, M., Skupin, A., Bellamy, T., Kypraios, T., & Thul, R. (2019). A statistical view on calcium oscillations. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1131, 799-826. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12457-1_32

Transient rises and falls of the intracellular calcium concentration have been observed in numerous cell types and under a plethora of conditions. There is now a growing body of evidence that these whole-cell calcium oscillations are stochastic, whic... Read More about A statistical view on calcium oscillations.