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15 I 07 I 2017 Sunday
Since I have my bachelor’s from English lit, I need to really catch up over summer holiday on some neuroscience basics, so I’ve decided to apply a technique that a lot of med students use, which is re-drawing the anatomy I want to learn and understand.
RESOURCE: Banich, M. T., & Compton, R. (2010). Cognitive neuroscience. Nelson Education.
15 I 07 I 2017 Saturday
Slowly progressing on my Language in Dialogue paper while it’s raining outside. Forest is still motivating me strong, only 200 points left until a new tree!
READING: Ginzburg, J., & Poesio, M. (2016). Grammar is a system that characterizes talk in interaction. Frontiers in psychology, 7. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01938
12 I 07 I 2017
Starting learning MatLab from absolute scratch in our amazing university library. This is especially helpful for doing experiments because you’ll probably use EEGLab for EEG data analysis, and it’s based on MatLab. Also you might program your experiments in MatLab.
A very helpful walkthrough of the absolute beginnings is MatLab Academy’s Onramp: https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/
14 I 07 I 2017
It’s raining outside and I’m reading up for my paper on language in dialogue. This paper is really cool because the authors say, that when analysing language, we should also look at the conversational phenomena, such as when we make grammatically incorrect sentences, come up with spontaneous new words just for that occasion (usually interjections) and not finishing your sentences or words.
READING: Ginzburg, J., & Poesio, M. (2016). Grammar is a system that characterizes talk in interaction. Frontiers in psychology, 7. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01938
08 I 07 I 2017 PINCH OF SALT IN SWEET PASTRY
Suffering from a serious post-exam studying abstinence, so I made up for it by looking up some research after having a discussion with my boyfriend and another hall-mate about why we put a pinch of salt into sweet foods to make it taste better.
In case anyone is wondering: apparently we have two types of sweet receptors on our tongue - normal ones (primary taste receptors T1r) and ones that are present in our small intestine. The small intestine ones are sodium dependent - imagine it like a little boat across a river and in order for the boat to take you to the other bank, you need always one glucose and one sodium. Just one sodium or just one glucose is not enough. So since these receptors exist, with sodium, we can absorb more glucose than we’d be able to by using just the primary taste receptors = things taste sweeter.
(disclaimer: I am not a biologist or an expert in any way, and this is a big simplification. There might be also some other types of sweet receptors, I wasn’t completely clear on that part, but the sodium-dependent glucose intake should be correct functionally. If you know more, write me a pm, I’m very interested!)
READING: Yee, K. K., Sukumaran, S. K., Kotha, R., Gilbertson, T. A., & Margolskee, R. F. (2011). Glucose transporters and ATP-gated K+ (KATP) metabolic sensors are present in type 1 taste receptor 3 (T1r3)-expressing taste cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(13), 5431–5436. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100495108
06 I 07 I 2017
EXAMS ARE OVER!
But I still have two papers to go, which entails some proper July planning. I am also doing an internship in an EEG lab and I work (and I have some personal learning goals as well). Luckily, planning is always a lot of fun.
04 | 07 | 2017 3 a.m.
Going through the slides from the lectures and merging them together with my lecture notes, while consulting the textbook (that I haven’t read, though, because I fail at prioritizing class reading).
It’s funny to see how pretty my summary notes are in comparison to the fast-scribbled lecture notes, that I sometimes can’t even read.
READING Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th edition)
25 I 06 I 2017
I am using Forest again, this time I even managed to get the sakura tree! It’s helping me to keep from drifting into the depths of the internet.
My Friday neurobiology final exam is swiftly approaching and I still have to review like crazy, but it should be fine.
RESOURCES: Khan Academy & various other youtube videos
I don’t like to reblog or post other people’s content, but I’ve been recently very inspired by Jamie’s Youtube channel Strive to Fit, and I thought it could inspire you as well.
Jamie is a 4th-year medical student in New York, and her channel is very down to earth with plenty of practical tips, and even if you’re not studying medicine, it’s very interesting to peek into the life of a med student.
Also, she’s genuinely funny.
05 | 06 | 2017
Studying hard & smart for my Cognitive psychology midterm. Turns out I didn’t do as well as I wanted (3,3 with 5 being fail) and in two days I have my final exams, so I have to make up for it!
READING Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th edition)
29 I 05 I 2017
Preparing for presenting the overview of the Fritzsche & Höhle (2015) paper while my boyfriend is playing Overwatch. This time, no all-nighters necessary, which is highly appreciated.
READING: Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2015). Phonological and lexical mismatch detection in 30montholds and adults measured by pupillometry. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 1014, 2015.
25 I 05 I 2017
Working some more on the presentation I had the day after. I had to pull an all-nighter to finish it on time, and it reminded me of how unpleasant (and inefficient) all-nighters are. Maybe I’m getting old, maybe I’m getting too comfortable, but I really don’t pine after spending all night long up trying to hype myself into any action, and then go through the next day like a zombie in a survival mode. Some reasonable planning + less procrastination should solve this one pretty fast. :)
READING: Levinson, Stephen C., and Francisco Torreira. “Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language.” Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015): 731.
24|05|2017
Working on my presentation about turns between speakers for a linguistic class. Pretty exciting stuff when it comes to simulating a model able to hold a conversation.
READING: Levinson, Stephen C., and Francisco Torreira. “Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language.” Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015): 731.
20|05|2017
Last days of studying for cognitive psychology midterm + trying to feel a little bit more like a human by putting on a cucumber mask.
READING Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th edition)
16|05|2017
Pretty damn neat study place at Schloß, Osnabrück, Germany.
READING: Levinson, Stephen C., and Francisco Torreira. "Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language." Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015): 731.
15|05|2017
Strawberry cake makes everything better.
8 days till midterm & 6 chapters to go.
READING Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th edition)
14|05|2017
READING Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (4th edition)