As
I approach my last week, I am thinking about all I have learned through this
amazing experience. From experimental design coding to writing letter of
inquiries to reference management and many other tasks, I really appreciate this
opportunity. On Monday, I read over two peer review articles. A new high school
student came to the lab, and I told her about what I had been working on. She
has not really been at the lab too much, so I still have to work alone much of
the time. However, I now go out to lunch with the project coordinator some
days. She is very smart and nice, so it is really great to be able to talk to
her about her goals and get advice about my future.
On Tuesday, I read over two more
peer review articles. I also figured out how to read the output files for
E-Prime. I had identified a problem on the morphing task that was shared with
us, so I had to look at the output files to make sure they actually made a
mistake. There was a column in E-Prime that was supposed to be sad faces, but
showed happy faces instead. So, I fixed the problem, and we let the group that
shared the morphing faces task know about the error.
On Wednesday, I went over the E-Prime
output files with Kate and confirmed that there no problem with the version of task
that I had fixed. To do this, I ran through the task and made sure I identified
all of the images correctly and that the output files matched this which they
did, so the task was coded correctly. Also, I put up flyers at some child care
centers and other places where new mothers would be in the area. At Kate’s RA
meeting, we talked about peer reviewing articles and went over the ones I read.
Next week, at Kate’s RA meeting, I will be presenting on Mendeley, the
reference management program I have been working with this summer.
On Thursday, I finished filling out the
Horvath clock spreadsheet with all of the literature I had identified. Also, I
attempted to identify new stimuli for the dot probe task, so that we can use
different baby images for the dot probe task and the morphing faces task.
Luckily, only eight of the twenty two babies in the dot probe task overlap with
the morphing task, so we can still use the current stimuli we have. However, I
am still looking for other stimuli sources.
On Friday, I worked on finding a way to
put our two tasks on Mechanical Turk which is a program that pays people a
little amount of money to do the task, so we can get a lot of data. However,
E-Prime files cannot be used on computer that do not have E-Prime, so I am
looking into computer programs that allows our tasks to be shared with others
once coded.
Outside of the lab, I hiked The Dish.
Also, I attended a dinner at Kate’s house on Friday night which was a really
great experience and nice to get to know everyone better.
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