BJKS Podcast Benjamin James Kuper-Smith

Geoff Cumming is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on New Statistics: estimation instead of hypothesis testing, meta-analytic thinking, and many related topics.

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Timestamps
0:00:00: A brief history of statistics, p-values, and confidence intervals
0:32:02: Meta-analytic thinking
0:42:56: Why do p-values seem so random?
0:45:59: Are p-values and estimation complementary?
0:47:09: How do I know how many participants I need (without a power calculation)?
0:50:27: Problems of the estimation approach (big data)
1:00:08: A book or paper more people should read
1:02:50: Something Geoff wishes he'd learnt sooner
1:04:52: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGeoff's links
Website: https://geni.us/cumming-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/cumming-scholarMastodon: https://nerdculture.de/@thenewstatsBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References/links

Dance of the p-values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OL1RqHrZQ8
Significance roulette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJImS16jR4

Episode with Simine Vazire (SIPS): https://geni.us/bjks-vazire

Coulson, ...(2010). Confidence intervals permit, but don't guarantee, better inference than statistical significance testing. Front in Psychol.
Cumming & Calin-Jageman (2016/2024). Introduction to the new statistics: Estimation, open science, and beyond.
Cumming (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychol Sci.
Cumming & Finch (2005). Inference by eye: confidence intervals and how to read pictures of data. American Psychol.
Errington, ... (2021) Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: Challpenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology. eLife.
Errington, ... (2021) Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology. eLife.
Finch & Cumming (2009). Putting research in context: Understanding confidence intervals from one or more studies. J of Pediatric Psychol.
Hedges (1987). How hard is hard science, how soft is soft science? The empirical cumulativeness of research. American Psychologist.
Hunt (1997). How science takes stock: The story of meta-analysis.
Ioannidis (2005). Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Medicine.
Loftus (1996). Psychology will be a much better science when we change the way we analyze data. Curr direct psychol sci.
Maxwell, ... (2008). Sample size planning for statistical power and accuracy in parameter estimation. Annu Rev Psychol.
Oakes (1986). Statistical inference: A commentary for the social and behavioural sciences.
Pennington (2023). A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis Reform Psychology.
Rothman (1986). Significance questing. Annals of Int Med.
Schmidt (1996). Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology: Implications for training of researchers. Psychol Methods.

Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on growth mindset and deliberate practice, whether deliberate practice is falsifiable, the benefits of diverse experiences, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: How Brooke started working on mindset and deliberate practice
0:02:10: (Growth) mindset: does it matter?
0:21:10: Mindset interventions
0:36:48: Deliberate practice
0:47:06: Benefits of diverse experiences
0:56:20: Is the theory of deliberate practice unfalsifiable?
0:59:36: What can we take practically from the growth mindset and deliberate pratice research?
1:01:06: A book or paper more people should read
1:02:10: Something Brooke wishes she'd learnt sooner
1:04:32: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrooke's links
Website: https://geni.us/macnamara-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/macnamara-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/macnamara-twtBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References/links

 Brainology mindset intervention: https://www.mindsetworks.com/programs/brainology-for-schools

Trello: https://trello.com

Burgoyne, Hambrick, & Macnamara (2020). How firm are the foundations of mind-set theory? The claims appear stronger than the evidence. Psychol Science.
Dweck (2006). Mindset-Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential.
Epstein (2021). Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world.
Ericsson & Harwell (2019). Deliberate practice and proposed limits on the effects of practice on the acquisition of expert performance. Frontiers in Psychol.
Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychol Rev.
Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The story of success.
Macnamara & Burgoyne (2023). Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. Psychol Bull.
Macnamara, Hambrick & Oswald (2014). Deliberate practice and performance in music, games, sports, education, and professions: A meta-analysis. Psychol Science.
Macnamara & Maitra (2019). The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: Revisiting Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). Royal Society Open Science.
Macnamara, Moreau & Hambrick (2016). The relationship between deliberate practice and performance in sports: A meta-analysis. Perspec Psychol Science.
Macnamara, Prather & Burgoyne (2023).  Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies. Nat Rev Psychol.
Sisk, Burgoyne, Sun, Butler & Macnamara (2018). To what extent and under which circumstances are growth mind-sets important to academic achievement? Two meta-analyses. Psychol Science.

Simine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose of journals and peer review, Simine's plans for being Editor-in-Chief at Psychological Science, the hidden curriculum of scienitic publishing, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: What is SIPS and why did Simine cofound it?
0:05:10: Why Simine resigned from the NASEM Reproducibility & Replicability committee
0:13:07: Do we still need journals and peer review in 2023?
0:28:04: What does an Editor-in-Chief actually do?
0:37:09: Simine will be EiC of Psychological Science
0:59:44: The 'hidden curriculum' of scientific publishing
1:04:03: Why Siminie created a GoFundMe for DataColada
1:15:10: A book or paper more people should read
1:17:10: Something Simine wishes she'd learnt sooner
1:18:44: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtSimine's links
Website: https://geni.us/vazire-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/vazire-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/vazire-twtBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References/links

Episode of Black Goat Podcast I mentioned: https://blackgoat.podbean.com/e/simine-flips-out/

Mini-interview with Simine in Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-reform-minded-new-editor-psychology-s-flagship-journal-will-shake-things

My 2nd interview w/ Adam Mastroianni, and his blog post on peer review:
https://geni.us/bjks-mastroianni_2

Interview w/ Chris Chambers and Peer community in RR
https://geni.us/bjks-chambers

Simine's vision statement for Psychological Science
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mozmB2m5kxOoPvQSqDSguRrP5OobutU6/view

GOFUNDME for Data Colada's legal fees
https://www.gofundme.com/f/uhbka-support-data-coladas-legal-defense

Francesca  Gino's response
https://www.francesca-v-harvard.org/

NYT Magazine article about Amy Cuddy (and Joe Simmons)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html

Streisand effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Holcombe (during dogwalk). On peer review. Personal communication to Simine.
Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science.
Reich (2009): Plastic fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific

Nanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how the technologies have changed and what might happen in the future. We also talk about how she runs her lab, how to learn as a PI, and what Nanthia enjoys about mentoring students and postdocs.

We had some minor audio issues, so Nanthia switched her recording setup twice during the conversation. Sound should still be good though.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Was it good that Nanthia finished school so young?
01:27: How invasive recordings in humans have changed over the past 15 years
10:45: The future of invasive recordings in humans
19:29: Mentorship in academia
30:01: Learning as a PI
36:02: Book or paper more people should read
40:53: Something Nanthia wishes she'd learnt sooner
45:42: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNanthia's links
Website: https://geni.us/suthana-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/suthana-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/suthana-twtBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References and links

Nanthia's episode in Stories of Women in Neuroscience:
https://www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/2021/3/24/dr-nanthia-suthana

Episodes w/ Matthias Stangl and Gareth Barnes:
https://geni.us/bjks-barnes
https://geni.us/bjks-stangl
https://geni.us/bjks-postdoc-stangl
Boto et al (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.
Feinsinger et al (2022). Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans. Neuron.
Gill et al (2023). A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder. Nature Communications.
Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser & Moser (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature.
O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.
Preston, Kuper-Smith & Ehrsson (2015). Owning the body in the mirror: The effect of visual perspective and mirror view on the full-body illusion. Scientific Reports.
Sacks (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat.
Scoville & Milner (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.
Stangl, Topalovic,  ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.
Stangl, Maoz & Suthana (2023). Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Topalovic et al (2023). A wearable platform for closed-loop stimulation and recording of single-neuron and local field potential activity in freely moving humans. Nature Neuroscience. 

Gillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went from Ireland to doing a PhD in the UK, different ways for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, what beta-amyloid and tau are, what spatial navigation has to do with dementia, and whether early menopause can affect women's spatial navigation performance and risk of getting dementia.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Playing the piano
07:13: How Gillian ended up doing her PhD with Michael Hornberger in Norwich
14:02: How to find a good mentor
16:48: Sea Hero Quest
22:28: Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease
32:37: The role of Beta-Amyloid and tau in dementia
34:41: Spatial navigation, the entorhinal cortex, and dementia
44:14: Does menopause affect spatial navigation and risk of dementia?
50:31: Book or paper more people should read
52:37: Something Gillain wishes she'd learnt sooner
55:31: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGillian's links
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/coughlan-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/coughlan-twtBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References and links

Episodes with Michael Hornberger and Hugo Spiers
https://geni.us/bjks-hornberger
https://geni.us/bjks-spiers
 
Coughlan, DeSouza, Zhukovsky, Hornberger, Grady & Buckley (2023). Spatial cognition is associated with levels of phosphorylated-tau and β-amyloid in clinically normal older adults. Neurobiology of Aging.
Coughlan, ... Buckley (2023). Association of age at menopause and hormone therapy use with tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography. JAMA Neurology.
Coughlan, Coutrot, Khondoker, Minihane, Spiers & Hornberger (2019). Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease. PNAS.
Coughlan, Laczó, Hort, Minihane & Hornberger (2018). Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?. Nature Reviews Neurology.
Eger (2017). The Choice.
Pertesi, Coughlan, Puthusseryppady, Morris & Hornberger (2019). Menopause, cognition and dementia–A review. Post reproductive health.

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our second conversation. We discuss how the Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map was received, Lynn's career, including his years as head of department at the University of Arizona, how to foster collaboration, why Lynn started the Hippocampal History project, and the development and clinical aspects of the hippocampus.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Who was A. Black?
03:38: How was The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map received?
08:08: Lynn's wandering years
15:46: At the University of Arizona
21:24: How to foster collaboration
28:29: Being a head of department
38:22: The Hippocampal History project
42:56: Lynn's developmental work

Podcast links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLynn's links
Website: https://geni.us/nadel-webMastodon: https://geni.us/nadel-mastodonBen's links
Website: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt
References
Lynn's first episode: https://geni.us/bjks-nadel

Black, Nadel & O'Keefe (1977). Hippocampal function in avoidance learning and punishment. Psychological Bulletin.
Edgin, Spano, Kawa & Nadel (2014). Remembering things without context: development matters. Child development.
Goddard (1964). Functions of the amygdala. Psychological bulletin.
Lynch (1979). Representations in the Brain: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel. Science.
Nadel & Moscovitch (1997). Memory consolidation, retrograde amnesia and the hippocampal complex. Current opinion in neurobiology.
Nadel, Samsonovich, Ryan & Moscovitch (2000). Multiple trace theory of human memory: computational, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological results. Hippocampus.
Nadel, Willner & Kurz (1986). The neurobiology of mental representations. In Myles Brand (ed.), The Representation of Knowledge and Belief. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Free download: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103569/
O'Keefe & Nadel (1979). Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel's The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Pennington, Moon, Edgin, Stedron & Nadel (2003). The neuropsychology of Down syndrome: evidence for hippocampal dysfunction. Child development.
Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS.
Squire, Nadel & Slater (1981). Anterograde amnesia and memory for temporal order. Neuropsychologia.
Sutherland & Rudy (1989). Configural association theory: The role of the hippocampal formation in learning, memory, and amnesia. Psychobiology.