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Welcome to Brain Group! Pick a good paper for the love of science. Read it ahead of time and consider your audience. Focus on systems/cognitive/computational neuroscience. Make sure the paper is not too long or technical. Discuss why you picked the paper, the big question, the logic of their approach, the answer, belief in the results, and the importance. Use figures to support your points. Guide the discussion and stay within the time limit. Let's have a productive year of learning!
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Welcome to brain group! Fall 2019
Picking a paper • For the love of science, pick a good paper. • Read it ahead of time! • Consider your audience • General: new students, varied expertise • Specific: systems/cognitive/computational neuroscience • Busy (don’t pick a horribly long or technical paper) • Would this paper be better for a different forum? • Science, not techniques • At the beginning of your presentation (or even in the email announcing your choice), tell us why you picked this paper.
Focus your presentation on these questions • Why did you pick this paper? • What’s the big question? • How did they go about answering it? (focus on the logic) • What’s the answer? • Do we believe it? • Is it important?
Focus your presentation on these questions • Why did you pick this paper? • What’s the big question? • How did they go about answering it? (focus on the logic) • What’s the answer? • Do we believe it? • Is it important? • Your introduction should consist of (brief!) answers to all of these. • This will focus the discussion. • If you understand the paper, you will be able to answer all of these in a few minutes.
of each figure ^ Focus your presentation on these questions • Why did you pick this paper? • What’s the big question? • How did they go about answering it? (focus on the logic) • What’s the answer? • Do we believe it? • Is it important? • Your introduction should consist of (brief!) answers to all of these. • This will focus the discussion. • If you understand the paper, you will be able to answer all of these in a few minutes.
A spurious correlation:Age of Miss America correlates withMurders by steam, hot vapors, and hot objects 8 24 Age (years) Number of deaths 19 2 Year (1999-2009)
Tips • Use your title to make the main point. • Focus on the story. • Pick and choose which figures to present. • Only put things on the slide that you will explain/discuss. • Talk to us, not at us (or at the wall). • “You should use statistics the way a drunk man uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination”Andrew Lang
Steering the discussion • It is okay to steer the discussion. You are the expert. • Tell us at the beginning which aspects of the paper you want to focus on. • Don’t waste time on the unimportant stuff. • Feel free to rein us in.
Steering the discussion • It is okay to steer the discussion. You are the expert. • Tell us at the beginning which aspects of the paper you want to focus on. • Don’t waste time on the unimportant stuff. • Feel free to rein us in. • Plan your presentation to end by 1:30. • Plan your presentation as if I will pay you $10 for every minute before 2:00 that you end. • Plan your presentation as if you owe me $100 for every minute after 2:00 that your presentation runs.
Steering the discussion • It is okay to steer the discussion. You are the expert. • Tell us at the beginning which aspects of the paper you want to focus on. • Don’t waste time on the unimportant stuff. • Feel free to rein us in. • Plan your presentation to end by 1:30. • Plan your presentation as if I will pay you $10 for every minute before 2:00 that you end. • Plan your presentation as if you owe me $100 for every minute after 2:00 that your presentation runs. • I’m looking forward to learning a lot from you this year! This won’t happen.
