Talks

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic musculoskel- etal condition characterized by widespread pain, impaired physical functioning, …

Invited Talk

Cumulative data analysts typically rely on two statistical frameworks: meta-analysis (MA) and integrative data analysis (IDA; Curran et al., 2009). MA analyzes aggregate data (AD, i.e., summary statistics) whereas IDA analyzes individual participant data (IPD).

Invited Talk

With the growing availability of open-access data from multiple psychological studies, appropriate statistical methods for synthesizing …

Object recognition memory is the ability to discriminate between novel and familiar objects. This form of memory aids fish in natural …

Winner of Oral Presentation Award.

Spotlight Talk

Topic modeling has become a widely used approach when analyzing constructed responses in both educational and psychological research. …

While text analysis has long been of interest in psychology, quantitative approaches tend to rely on predefined dictionaries of words …

Topic modeling using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has been increasingly endorsed as a popular procedure in text-mining. …

Many non-human animals including monkeys, goats, pigeons, and cichlids have shown the ability to categorize objects. In this study, we …

In B. A. Ammerman & R. Jacobucci (Chairs), Utilizing text mining in clinical research: Novel applications for improving the prediction of psychological distress [Symposium]

In B. A. Ammerman & R. Jacobucci (Chairs), Utilizing text mining in clinical research: Novel applications for improving the prediction of psychological distress [Symposium]

The temporal and financial resources needed to qualitatively analyze textual data can be prohibitive. However, a growing collection of quantitative modeling approaches for text offer potential alternatives. One latent variable approach, topic modeling, assumes that text can be summarized as a mixture of latent categories (i.

The ability to visually recognize objects despite differences in orientation would be advantageous for fish because they often view …

Topic models are a probabilistic approach to extracting structural information from discrete data and have been used with great success …

The ability to visually recognize objects despite differences in orientation would be advantageous for fish because they frequently …

Rhythmic properties in penguin vocalizations may be unique to individuals. Rhythm perception is a cognitive ability previously thought …

Aquatic species such as bottlenose dolphins and goldfish can move in three dimensions and frequently view objects from different …

Topic models are a state-of-the-art probabilistic approach to extracting structural information about discrete data and have been used …

Many studies have addressed the ability of humans and non-human animals to visually recognize objects from different orientations, but …

While single models can clearly and effectively explain data, particularly when inference and interpretation is a priority, aggregation …

The impact of mindfulness meditation and passive relaxation on emotional memory, mindfulness, and affect was examined using brief …