Aaron Batista
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Neuroscience to improve the human condition
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My happy place is that “or otherwise”.
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This is great, Andrew. I agree with that. I look forward to reading the whole story.
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Thanks Nicole! And all. Feels nice already to be here.
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Andrew, this makes me wonder a few things. Honest curiosity, not fishing for any particular answer:

1) Do you think peer review improves a paper (clarity, rigor, whatever)?
2) Does the *journal* in which a paper appears impact your perception of the work?
3) Do journals provide value anymore?
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Literally just did :) I went to make my second tweet ever, discovered that Twitter had morphed into a cesspool called X, had to unmute dozens of toxic threads, including bizarre and unsettling posts from Twitter's new owner, and luckily Juan Gallego's post directing us here was in my thread.
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Literally just did :)
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When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with the neural signals of motor preparation. I'd love to hear - what do you think causes it?
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A neural basis of choking under pressure
Incentives tend to drive improvements in performance. But when incentives get too high, we can “choke under pressure” and underperform right when it m…
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