Holcombe:Presenting

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Poster making

• hp poster printer in psych IT area has roll paper width of 1065 mm
• VSS 2008: Posterboards are 4’ (121.92 cm) tall x 8’ (243.84 cm) wide

Making demos of stimuli (for webs for example)

• Using Psychopy or Visionegg you can create a gif. Then you import the gif using Adobe Flash. You can adjust the speed manipulating the frame duration (Modify document). Finally, you export the file as a swf.

• In past years, Quicktime Pro could be used to create movies from a bunch of still frames. Quicktime Pro no longer exists, and the recent versions of Quicktime no longer play all my 2-frame movie demos correctly. When most of my movies are played with looping turned on, it only displays the first frame even though it's a two-frame movie. It does display both frames when it is not set to loop. So a decent demo can be created by making a extended replication of the two frames, even though that yields a large file size. That's what I had to do for the demos for my TiCS article. I have also tried viewing the two-frame movies in looped fashion in the following applications that play quicktime movies:
  • VLC: doesn't show both frames
  • Movist: doesn't show both frames
  • Quicktime Player 7:doesn't show both frames
  • SimpleMovieX: doesn't show both frames. Claims to allow export to image sequence, but this gives an error message.
  • Firefox: shows both frames, but has "double-vision"
  • MacVCD: shows both frames!

Writing

see Phrases for grants and papers

We shouldn't care about 2007 ISI impact factors

• Science 30
• Nature 26.7
• Nat Rev NEurosci 24.5
• BBS 17.462
• Nat Neurosci 15.7
• PLoS Biol 14.1
• Neuron 13.4
• Trends Neuro 12.5
• Current Biology 10.5
• PNAS 9.6
• TiCS 9.4
• Brain 8.6
• Psych Review 7.8
• J Neurosci 7.5
• JCN 5
• Proc Royal Society Biol 4.1
• Cogni Psych 4.0
• Cognition 3.8
• JoV 3.8
• J Neurophysiology 3.7
• JEP:HPP 2.6
• Vision Research 2.1
• Cogn Neuropsych 1.9
• Visual Cognition 1.7
• Perception 1.6
• Memory & Cognition 1.6
• Percept Psychophy 1.4
• QJEP 1.1
• Spatial Vision .94

See Eigenfactor for better rankings.