Where we discuss neuroscience, research as a career, and all things AWL. Enjoy!
My Unexpected Journey in a Psychology Lab: A Pre-Med Perspective
By Junaid Rasool When I first started looking for labs, I never imagined I would end up in a psychology lab. As a traditional neuroscience student, my sights were set on bench research: injecting mice, pipetting chemicals, and reading DNA gel electrophoresis. My biology and chemistry classes prepared me for this, and I was excited…
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Age Differences in Discounting Depend on Delay Length
Check out the infographic below for some information about one of our studies! You can visit our Publications page or click here for the paper, the preprint, and the OSF repository.
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Finding My Place as a Nontraditional Student
Five years ago, I had a good thing going – an established career with steady income, regular hours, no major debt, and plenty of free time to hang out with friends. But it felt like something was missing; I was unfulfilled at the end of my days. After 14 years with one company, it was…
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Git Basics for the Novel Coder’s Soul
Before anyone gets confused, yes, the Aging Well Lab still conducts psychology research, and no, we aren’t moving our lab space to Silicon Valley. As it turns out, coding is a very relevant skill for most research disciplines. Many neuroscientists and psychologists use coding software to create tasks or “games” to collect data, and statistical…
How the Replication Crisis Led to Open Science
Remember those basic concepts you learned for the grade-school science fair? Well, I’m going to let you in on a little secret: many of them are used in university-level research. For example, I remember hearing about students replicating their previous year’s projects in middle school and high school. At the time, it felt pointless. What more…
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Fall 2021 Semester Recap
Between our new research assistants, newly funded studies, and a new postdoc, the AWL has had a busy semester! Check out the video below for some of the highlights: https://youtu.be/2QHHKWV8SAY