PhD positions at Cardiff University School of Psychology!

January 1, 2018 Academia No Comments
There are several opportunities to undertake PhD study at the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. The deadline is 23 February 2018, to begin in October 2018. One of the positions is in my lab! I’m really looking forward to working with a new student. I loved being a PhD…

Use Mac OS to generate speech files from text

May 4, 2017 Measurement 3 Comments
Here’s a free (if you’ve got access to a Mac), quick method for creating spoken experimental stimuli, which I’ve implemented in this project and now use regularly in my lab. Hat tip to Richard Morey for suggesting this and writing a few lines of code that saves many hours of tedious voice…

Who benefits from for-profit academic publishing?

April 14, 2017 Academia Openness No Comments
If you’ve never considered how academic publishing works, start here. If you’re interested in learning more about the forces at work, a group of scholars, librarians, and publishing experts have written a white paper detailing where the money in publishing goes, especially in open-access publishing. We can’t for a minute forget that traditional publishers’…

II. What’s in a fair article processing charge?

January 18, 2017 Academia Openness 5 Comments
A companion post explaining why I think scholars should switch to publishing via non-profit open-access is here. Ideally, a scholar would know before choosing an open-access journal how the article processing charge (APC) is reckoned. It should always be clear what we are paying for. APCs for open-access publishing vary…

What do scholars want in a journal?

December 28, 2016 Academia 11 Comments
Members of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) have just learned that their executive committee unanimously took the courageous step of abandoning the society’s journal to its publisher. Instead, we are focusing our efforts on launching a new journal, one that is designed to appeal to and benefit scholars.…

Individual differences in experiencing visual imagery

December 22, 2016 Measurement Research No Comments
One frustration with studying visual memory is that we have no way to directly experience what someone else sees in their mind. When trying to understand individuals’ memories about uncontrolled events, we rely mainly on verbal descriptions of visual memories and individuals’ feelings of confidence in the clarity and vividness…