Mark & Anne Meeting May 27

- fMRI conference went really well
- been a busy week!
- am in charge of journal club articles this week, so am going to suggest doing the mind-wandering papers mentioned by Kalina Christoff at the conference

1). Hot or Not:
Totally forgot to get Ben's ethics. (Oops). He has now agreed to send them and his stimuli but still hasn't done so. Met with Angele yesterday and we went over possible experiment design and found the form we need to make changes to ethics. Problem is, I haven't seen the original ethics form we are proposing to change so I couldn't fill it all out. Meeting this afternoon to hopefully sort this out. Mark wants Angele to write the ethics, but without seeing what we're working with I'm not sure what to get her to do.

We have IAPS now, and Angele and I went through and categorized potentially useful ones. They are fine, but there aren't a lot of them, so really depends on the experiment design. Or I suppose we could do one IAPS block and one block of random hot people off the internet (or borrow Ben's).

At today's meeting I hope to get the ethics entirely sorted (to the point where I know what to do and can go do it), decide on stimuli for sure, and find out if there is an existing E-Prime program I can use or if we should make a new one (which I will get Angele to do, for practice/learning purposes).


2). STC

In very good shape here, in my opinion. Managed to collect four participants' worth of data on Monday and Tuesday, which is pretty good going. It went well. Unfortunately that is all we can do for now, as the other two women currently at STC are not interested. I am returning to Stonehenge on June 5 to give another presentation to the new women who will have started by then. I plan to bring the laptop along in case I can set up a few bookings for that day. Otherwise, I will sign them up for the following week.

Something important to bear in mind: one girl mentioned she has ADHD, which we hadn't been asking about. I will add in a question regarding ADHD, depression or any other diagnosis which may be relevant. This girl had a very hard time with the go/no go task, which makes perfect sense as those with ADHD find it difficult.


3). SD Review

Lit search is done (for now) and we are started on reading/summarizing/making a greatly detailed outline. Met with Mark yesterday, which was very helpful. I am burning through papers and plan to make the outline super detailed, to the point where it will practically write itself. Both Ben and I are motivated to have it done by the end of the summer.

4). Potential collaboration with London people in Jo's lab

Jo has passed on information about her supervisor. We will discuss potential projects next week. Will email Jo to let her know.



In other news, had a hugely hard time with my Python homework this week. Am hoping to give it another shot on the weekend. Been a busy week, though, and very productive.