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Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis (2018)
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Ksander, J. C., Kark, S. M., & Madan, C. R. (2018). Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis. F1000Research, 7, Article 216. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13849.2

Electrodermal activity (EDA) recordings are widely used in experimental psychology to measure skin conductance responses (SCRs) that reflect sympathetic nervous system arousal. However, irregular respiration patterns and deep breaths can cause EDA fl... Read More about Breathe Easy EDA: A MATLAB toolbox for psychophysiology data management, cleaning, and analysis.

ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research (2018)
Journal Article
Madan, C. (2018). ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), Article 1070. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01070

In experimental psychology research, we often ask participants to press specific keys to correspond to responses in the experiment. For instance, one key for 'old' and another for 'new' in an old/new recognition memory test, 'word' and 'nonword' in a... Read More about ElGateau: A Library for Using the Elgato Stream Deck for Experimental Psychology Research.

Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results (2018)
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Silberzahn, R., Uhlmann, E., Martin, D., Anselmi, P., Aust, F., Awtrey, E., …Nosek, B. (2018). Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(1), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917747646

Twenty-nine teams involving 61 analysts used the same dataset to address the same research question: whether soccer referees are more likely to give red cards to dark skin toned players than light skin toned players. Analytic approaches varied widely... Read More about Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results.

Positive emotion enhances association-memory (2018)
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Madan, C. R., Scott, S. M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2019). Positive emotion enhances association-memory. Emotion, 19(4), 733-740. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000465

The influence of emotion on association-memory is often attributed to arousal, but negative stimuli are typically used to test for these effects. While prior studies of negative emotion on association-memory have found impairments, theories suggest t... Read More about Positive emotion enhances association-memory.

Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology (2018)
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Madan, C. R. (in press). Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology. PeerJ, 6, Article e5176. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5176

Cortical morphology is known to differ with age, as measured by cortical thickness, fractal dimensionality, and gyrification. However, head motion during MRI scanning has been shown to influence estimates of cortical thickness as well as increase wit... Read More about Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology.

Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing (2018)
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Heard, A., Madan, C. R., Protzner, A. B., & Pexman, P. M. (2019). Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1072-1

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor information in lexical-semantic processing is to examine effects of words’ rated body-object interaction (BOI; the ease with which the human body can interact wi... Read More about Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing.

Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees (2018)
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Tsoi, M., Teitge, B. D., Madan, C. R., & Francescutti, L. H. (2018). Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees. F1000Research, 5, Article 1903. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9026.2

To pursue research, education, and health policy in one’s career, broadly defined as academic medicine, is one of the most important decisions of a trainee doctor’s career. Despite this, there is scant literature on which factors influence trainees’... Read More about Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine: Perspectives of selected Canadian trainees.

Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice (2018)
Journal Article
Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., McMillan, N., Xu, Y., & Spetch, M. L. (2018). Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(12), 1905-1918. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000414

© 2018 American Psychological Association. Extreme stimuli are often more salient in perception and memory than moderate stimuli. In risky choice, when people learn the odds and outcomes from experience, the extreme outcomes (best and worst) also sta... Read More about Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice.

Justify your alpha (2018)
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Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A., Argamon, S. E., …Zwaan, R. A. (in press). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to p ≤ .005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review (2018)
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Smith, A. M., Niemeyer, K. E., Katz, D. S., Barba, L. A., Githinji, G., Gymrek, M., …Vanderplas, J. T. (in press). Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review. PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.147

This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of... Read More about Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review.

Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan (2018)
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Madan, C. R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2018). Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(5), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13835

Despite inter-individual differences in cortical structure, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated a large degree of population-level consistency in age-related differences in brain morphology. The present study assessed how accur... Read More about Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan.

Prototypical actions with objects are more easily imagined than atypical actions (2018)
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Madan, C. R., Ng, A., & Singhal, A. (2018). Prototypical actions with objects are more easily imagined than atypical actions. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(3), 314-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1429448

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Tool use is an important facet of everyday life, though sometimes it is necessary to use tools in ways that do not fit within their typical functions. Here we asked participants to imagi... Read More about Prototypical actions with objects are more easily imagined than atypical actions.

Teaching the science of learning (2018)
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Weinstein, Y., Madan, C. R., & Sumeracki, M. A. (2018). Teaching the science of learning. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications / Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - a SpringerOpen journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-017-0087-y

The science of learning has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of effective teaching and learning strategies. However, few instructors outside of the field are privy to this research. In this Tutorial Review, we focus on six specif... Read More about Teaching the science of learning.

Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye (2018)
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Madan, C. R., Bayer, J., Gamer, M., Lonsdorf, T. B., & Sommer, T. (2018). Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2368. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02368

Pictorial stimuli can vary on many dimensions, several aspects of which are captured by the term ‘visual complexity.’ Visual complexity can be described as, “a picture of a few objects, colors, or structures would be less complex than a very colorful... Read More about Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye.

Shape-related characteristics of age-related differences in subcortical structures (2018)
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Madan, C. R. (2019). Shape-related characteristics of age-related differences in subcortical structures. Aging and Mental Health, 23(7), 800-810. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1421613

OBJECTIVES: With an increasing aging population, it is important to gain a better understanding of biological markers of aging. Subcortical volume is known to differ with age; additionally considering shape-related characteristics may provide a bette... Read More about Shape-related characteristics of age-related differences in subcortical structures.