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<title>Vitriolic review from Acta Psychologica</title>
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Sometimes it is hard to believe the type of review one's manuscript gets. And it is hard to figure out how the peer review system could ever change to demand at least a modicum of civility and some s ...
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<dc:creator>Eugen G Tarnow</dc:creator>
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<title>Proposed set of rules for science journal editors</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:14:58 -0400</pubDate>
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Science editors like to set up ethical guidelines for authors in order to better cover their rears. I have criticized these guidelines using surveys elsewhere and I just note that they are set up to ...
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<title>How short term memory works</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:35:11 -0400</pubDate>
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1. It takes 0.5 to 3 seconds to put a word in your short term memory by looking at it or listening to it. This "activation" time scale roughly corresponds to the time scale of synaptic exocytosis, i ...
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<title>The bile in medical research: refusing to share data</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:24:07 -0400</pubDate>
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It was just announced that the guidelines for an Alzheimer's diagnosis is no longer an autopsy by itself, since brains with and without AD can often look the same. We are therefore back to the drawin ...
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<title>Who are the editors and reviewers behind the latest Science debaucle?</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 06:12:33 -0400</pubDate>
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Editors insist on peer review of scientific articles before they are accepted for publication. Science magazine just asked authors to withdraw a paper ( see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405 ...
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<title>Getting my paper read after two months!</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2011 05:48:50 -0400</pubDate>
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After prompting I finally received a letter from the editor of Journal of Cognitive Psychology. My paper had been sitting in their inbox for more than two months apparently because she was moving. Y ...
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<title>Temporal Context Model</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:26:38 -0400</pubDate>
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I got the following request from a referee rejecting my paper (presumably the referee was Marc Howard): "The model really needs to be compared against other models of free recall rather than SOB whi ...
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<title>Getting rejected already on the pre-data stage</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:25:34 -0400</pubDate>
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A few months ago I requested anonymized data on the short term memory of Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center patients who died. I had first been told that if I wanted to use the data to develop a patent, ...
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<title>The responsibility of referees and editors</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:34:43 -0400</pubDate>
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I recently had a referee reject a paper of mine stating "Most of the relations that the author reports in the manuscript are not new (relations between response latency and probability of error, numbe ...
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<title>Response probability and response time: a straight line, the Tagging/Retagging interpretation of short term memory, an operational definition of meaningfulness and short term memory time decay and search time</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:22:51 -0400</pubDate>
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Response probability and response time: a straight line, the Tagging/Retagging interpretation of short term memory, an operational definition of meaningfulness and short term memory time decay and sea ...
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<title>Why The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model Was Wrong From The Beginning</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:14:12 -0400</pubDate>
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Why The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model Was Wrong From The Beginning WebmedCentral NEUROLOGY 2010;1(10):WMC001021 The Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968) model, a standard model of short term memory cited over three ...
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<title>Short term memory may be the depletion of the readily releasable pool of presynaptic neurotransmitter vesicles of a metastable long term memory trace pattern</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:12:06 -0400</pubDate>
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Short term memory may be the depletion of the readily releasable pool of presynaptic neurotransmitter vesicles of a metastable long term memory trace pattern Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2009, 3(3), 26 ...
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<title>There Is No Limited Capacity Memory Buffer in the Murdock (1962) Free Recall Data</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:11:10 -0400</pubDate>
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There Is No Limited Capacity Memory Buffer in the Murdock (1962) Free Recall Data Cognitive Neurodynamics 2010, 4(4), 395. Theories of short term memory often include a limited capacity &#8216;&#8216;buffer&#8217;&#8217;. ...
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<title>Short term memory bowing effect is consistent with presentation rate dependent decay</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:09:13 -0400</pubDate>
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Short term memory bowing effect is consistent with presentation rate dependent decay Cognitive Neurodynamics 2010, 4(4), 367. I reanalyze the free recall data of Murdock, J Exp Psychol 64(5):482&#8211;48 ...
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<title>An unflattering email</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:43:47 -0400</pubDate>
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I received this in my inbox: "Dear Dr Tarnow, "Just took a look at your blog. "There is no shame in writing a bad paper. Or in being a novice in a field and not yet appreciating that you don't ...
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<title>On the philosophy of science as it applies to psychology - old data not to be trusted?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:20:26 -0400</pubDate>
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Here is my newest referee problem: "Overall: in my opinion you need to have either full solid model equations and numerical simulations of the equations, or report on your own STM experiments to r ...
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<title>Who is WebMedCentral.com?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:30:50 -0400</pubDate>
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In physics one has been able to deposit once papers on the web and receive on-line reviews for a long time. In the medical/biological sciences this has not been true to the same extent. Recently the ...
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<title>On the philosophy of science as it applies to psychology</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:40:37 -0400</pubDate>
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I often have arguments with editors over the philosophy of psychology papers. Here is one of them: Editor: When your manuscript arrived at my office, I decided to read it myself before sending it o ...
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<title>Why do journals like lots of references?</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:50:45 -0400</pubDate>
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I recently had a paper rejected because it did not have enough references. It was suggested since the average number of references in articles on free recall is forty, my five references just were no ...
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<title>Rehearsal - it is there to make everybody scurry around.</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:48:43 -0400</pubDate>
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If one goes to basement in the New York Hall of Science and studies the visitors who make soap bubbles once finds that they invariably take the large metal loops and shake them in the water. In the e ...
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