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Alex O. Holcombe

Sydney
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Science-ing, and trying to improve science. Little book: tracking.whatanimalssee.com/intro.html#sum… Biases include @siminevazire (for), cats (against)
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Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors

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By Alex O. Holcombe, Rasmus Anker Pedersen, Malgorzata Lagisz
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section, which are not indexed by scholarly databases, resulting in little recognition for those involved. We contextualize this shortfall in terms of contributorship, the movement to recognize specific research contributions rather than rely solely on authorship.
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How Transparent and Reproducible Are Studies That Use Animal Models of Opioid Addiction?

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By Julia Beitner, Alex O. Holcombe, Justine C. Blackwell
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Confidence in psychological findings was shaken by poor rates of successful replications [1, 2] and researchers' reports of engagement in questionable research practices (QRPs) [3]. This ‘replication crisis’ has triggered discussion about how research is performed [2] and calls for more replication, including of addiction research [4]. Relatedly, disappointing levels of successful translation of preclinical research to clinical trials led some to declare a ‘translational research crisis’ [5].
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No evidence that individual alpha frequency (IAF) represents a mechanism underlying motion-position illusions

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By William Max Turner, Alex O. Holcombe, Timothy Vaughan Cottier, Violet Jungwoo Chae
| BioRxiv
Abstract Motion-Position Illusions (MPIs) involve the position of an object being misperceived in the context of motion (i.e. when the object contains motion, is surrounded by motion, or is moving). A popular MPI is the flash-lag effect, where a static object briefly presented in spatiotemporal alignment with a moving object, is perceived in a position behind the moving object. Recently, Cottier et al.
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