In this series of simplewriter summaries, various members (and relatives of members) of our lab summarize our papers. The way this works is that a member of the lab (or relative) summarizes another lab member’s recently published research, using the xkcd simplewriter app to make sure the summaries use only the 1000 most commonly used English words. Sometimes the resulting summaries are pretty entertaining. Inevitably, we all understand our research better after we’ve created or read these summaries. We hope you will too.
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Sense and timing: Localizing objects during emotional distraction.
A simple writer summary of: Kryklywy, J.H., Dudarev, V. & Todd, R.M. (2021). Sense and timing: Localizing objects during emotional distraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Written by the first author’s mother Fire people, paid-to-play games people, and many others have to be good at finding things when they are in…
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Can nurses train surgical skills through tablet games?
A simple-writer summary of: Kryklywy, J.H., Roach, V.A. & Todd, M.R. (2021) Assessing the efficacy of tablet-based simulations for learning surgery-like instrumentation. PLOS-ONE, 16(1): e0245330. By the first Author’s mother This paper questioned if computers were as good to learn from as books or real life. The training was to learn things used by nurses…
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Emotion is sensation.
Kryklywy, J.H., Ehlers, M.R., Anderson, A.K. & Todd, R.M. (2020) From architecture to evolution: Multisensory evidence of decentralized emotion. Trends in Cognitive Science. IN PRESS TICS paper through the eyes of the 1st author’s mother Human feelings are considered to come from the brain, which makes choices about information from our senses to decide how we…
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Paying more attention to things that are good for us even if they don’t matter at the moment cannot be explained by tiny brain message things that make us excited
Roberts, K. H., Manaligod, M. G. M., Ross, C. J. D., Mueller, D. J., Wieser, M. J., & Todd, R. M. (2018). Affectively-biased Competition Favoring Rewarding Expressions is Not Modulated by Common Variation in Norepinephrine Receptor Function. bioRxiv. http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.202 It is well known that things that make us excited drive parts of the brain that are important…
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Worry system in the brain can change how much happy you see in a face
People are different in how much they pay attention to good things and bad things. We know that the norepinephrine system in our bodies has something to do with people being different in this way. (Norepinephrine is a tiny brain message thing that helps you be more excited and pay attention to what is important.)…
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If you don’t worry about changes made by people in how hot the air is, you will not see the signs.
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Whitman, J.C., Zhao, J.,…
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After things that worry us happen, we don’t use new learning to get good things!
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Ehlers, M. R. &…
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Blur of Pleasure
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Roberts, K. H., Truong,…
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Switching between different kinds of information makes it harder to see how bad a problem is
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Whitman, J. C., Zhao,…
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Letter to MP – Support The Report
Richard Cannings, MP 1695A Columbia Avenue Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1J1 Telephone: 250-365-2792 July 4, 2017 Dear Mr. Cannings, First of all, I want to thank you for your longstanding support of science and environmental issues, as well as your defense of treatment options for those who suffer PTSD. And for your bird book, which…
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I Saw Mine First!
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/) We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Truong, G., Roberts K.H.,…
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Schematic faces are not real faces
Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/) We find it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Here, to launch this…
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Implicit Sources of Attention
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Brain rhythms as windows into emotionally-tuned attention and memory
