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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi all,</span></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just
writing to follow-up on yesterday's discussion of the replication crises. <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I know that a few of you expressed interest in this topic but were </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">unable
to attend, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">so </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
thought it might be worth mentioning</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a few interesting points/resources.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First
of all, thanks to all who attended- it was really great to hear your thoughts on this! </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We all agreed that the Spellman paper (circulated on Tuesday) was a highly readable and
reasonably comprehensive summary of the issues and potential solutions (so, well worth a read). </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Liz Renner brought our attention to some reproducibility issues within the field of oxytocin research.
Interestingly, these problems</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> were identified when a research group decided to critical<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span>ly examine their own published work and open their file drawer. Some
links here: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11348288/oxytocin-love-hormone" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><font style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11348288/oxytocin-love-hormone</span></span></font></span></font></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><font style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jne.12384/abstract?campaign=wolacceptedarticle" target="_blank"><font style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jne.12384/abstract?campaign=wolacceptedarticle</span></span></font></a></span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#212121" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Becky
Sharman discussed her own efforts to replicate a curious perceptual effect and she has successfully published these findings in the Royal Society's new OA journal (link here: </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><a href="http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/12/150418.abstract"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/12/150418.abstract).</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Becky has
kindly provided a lay summary of this work for those interested (see postscript). </span></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,
thanks again to all for such an interesting discussion! Next week we have Dr. Vicky Fishlock talking to us about her work at Amboseli National Park. It is going to be great! </span></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the best,</span></span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eoin</span></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS: Lay- summary of Mather & Sharman (2015)</span></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The implied motion after effect occurs when
adapting to still images of motion e.g. s</span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omeone
running causes the same kind of after-effect as looking at actual moving stimuli. We showed that this effect is only present when participants are asked to make a directional judgement (i.e. are the dots moving left or right), but isn’t present when they are </span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">asked
to make a non-directional judgement (i.e. is the top or bottom half of the stimulus moving). The stimuli were exactly the sa</span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me,
only the instructions and the subsequent results were differe</span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nt.</span></span><br>
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