Postdoc position! Come work with us at Western University studying EEG and speech perception in children with/without reading and language disorders. Our CIHR-funded team includes L. Batterink, @blakebutler.bsky.social@christinavbdn.bsky.socialgrad.uwo.ca/doc/postdoc/...
What's the Provost's publication rate?
I can't say I'm super disappointed. A heavier ban wouldn't have fixed our crises with mental health, classroom behaviour and inattention. But like, where's the plan to address the current crises with mental health, classroom behaviour and inattention?
Province of Ontario rolls out new rules for mobile devices in schools. Expectation: outright ban on phones in younger kids and hard restrictions in high schoolers. Reality: kids in grade 6 will need to keep their phone on silent, older kids should follow teachers instructions.
Pro-tip for people with noisy EEG data: fancy ICA, re-referencing, baseline correction and artifact rejection will not fix bad data, it just makes it worse: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientific Reports - EEG is better left alone
We found that kids in the Child Mind Institute biobank with ADHD and/or DLD show similar reading, language and working memory difficulties. Kids with combined ADHD/DLD show the greatest severity in difficulties. And, recommendations for which clinical measures best differentiate the two disorders
Just out! Language and reading in ADHD, Developmental Language Disorder, and combined ADHD-DLD: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram
Many people enjoy trivia, but some people are way better at it than the rest of us. What is different about how their memory works? Our research (led by Monica Thieu, w/ Lauren Wilkins) characterizing the memories of trivia experts vs. non-experts is now out and featured in @sciam.bsky.social!
I've written to the Editor in Chief, named Akhyar Hanif. But a quick web search reveals that his name is associated with a bunch of other equally shady journals (mostly also connected to Indonesia). So who knows what will comes of it.