The Experiment Factory: Standardizing Behavioral Experiments

The Experiment Factory: Standardizing Behavioral Experiments

The administration of behavioral and experimental paradigms for psychology research is hindered by lack of a coordinated effort to develop and deploy standardized paradigms. While several frameworks (Mason and Suri, 2011; McDonnell et al., 2012; de Leeuw, 2015; Lange et al., 2015) have provided infrastructure and methods for individual research groups to develop paradigms, missing is a coordina...

Optimization of a neutrino factory oscillation experiment

We discuss the optimization of a neutrino factory experiment for neutrino oscillation physics in terms of muon energy, baselines, and oscillation channels (gold, silver, platinum). In addition, we study the impact and requirements for detector technology improvements, and we compare the results to beta beams. We find that the optimized neutrino factory has two baselines, one at about 3 000 to 5...

Pavlov's physiology factory: experiment, interpretation, laboratory enterprise

Before I read this much awaited book I had intended to write an essay review but having finished it I can only call to mind Tolstoy's famous observation in Anna Karenina that "All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". In other words, to write an essay review requires at least some points of contention and preferably large areas of disagreement ...

Standardizing next-generation sequencing experiments and analysis methods.

The past few years have seen the emergence of new strategies for high-throughput DNA sequencing that have invigorated life science research. Because of these technological advances, the available sequencing data continue to expand. Additionally, cost reductions have made access to sequences of entire genomes easier for established laboratories and even easier for small research groups. A lack o...

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