Aug 23, 2013 — Brain Podcast with Temple Grandin — This is an episode of the Brain Podcast that interviews Temple Grandin, and it’s good enough that I want to share: Interview: Temple Grandin I listened to it a few days ago, but the points that stuck out as interesting... Read more

Aug 23, 2013 — Dual Regression to Compare Functional Brain Networks — I want to talk about a method that is quite popular with functional network analysis, namely to define functional networks for a group of people, and then go back and identify the same (unique) network for an individual.  This technique... Read more

Aug 21, 2013 — Visual: Should I use a linear model? — I’ve read about this trick in two places, as a way to determine if the choice of a linear model for your data is a good one.  You can plot the residuals (the squared error terms) against each of the... Read more

Aug 18, 2013 — Correlation — Correlation is a measure of the extent to which two variables change together.  A positive correlation means that when we increase one variable, the other increases as well.  It also means that when we decrease one variable, the other decreases... Read more