Literature Review

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Explore new literature

• Elicit:  Type in a research question, and it will produce a list of relevant papers, along with a short abstract summary + main findings! Supposedly works well for this format: “What is the effect of ___ on ___ ?” 

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Visualize connections between papers

• Lit maps: Type in the title of a paper, and it will use that as the “seed” that connects to related papers. Seems to work well, but the interface is a bit confusing.

• Research Rabbit: Type in the title of a paper and add it to your collection. It will use this as the starting point to suggest similar papers, and also show the references and subsequent citations (citing articles).

• Connected Papers: Type in the DOI or title of a paper, and it will produce a map of related papers – categorized as (1) prior works and (2) derivative works. 

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Reading and Writing Academic Articles

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Essential tools and guidelines

• Purdue OWL (guide to APA formatting (7th edition)

• Guidelines on authorship

• Zotero (recommended free software for citation management)

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Tips for reading

• Tips: how to read a paper

• How to stay on top of the scientific literature

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Tips for writing

• How to write a research article and get it published

• 10 simple rules for structuring papers

• Writing empirical articles: transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability (paywall)

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Improving your research reading and writing workflow

• Damon Kiesow's blog post on Medium

• DaigengnaDuoer's blog post on The Digital Orientalist

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Creating Stimuli

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Language databanks and corpora

• Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (both spoken language and text)

• Sketch Engine corpus (multiple languages available)

• Subtlex US (text corpus from spoken language)

• Fluency Bank (fluency development)

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Image databases

• ​​Multipic (500 colored pictures of concrete objects in 32 different languages)

• InteriorNet (indoor scenes)

• Change blindness database (indoor scenes in which random objects appear and disappear)

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Creating and Running Experiments

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Online data collection platforms

• Amazon Mechanical Turk

• Prolific

• Wang (ว่าง)

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Tools for creating experiments

• ​Qualtrics

• PC Ibex (free)

• PsychoPy (free)

• jsPsych (free)

• WebExp (free)

• Gorilla

• PsychoJS

• Pushkin

• Testable

• Finding Five

• ePrime

• Inquisit

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EEG/ERP

• Online learning resources

• ERP Bootcamp (USA)

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Data Visualization and Analysis

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Data visualization

• Guide to data visualization (plotting) (how to best visualize different types of data: amounts, distributions, proportions, x-y relationships, geospatial data, and uncertainty, e.g., error bars, confidence bands)

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Data analysis

• Remote servers (Free computing infrastructure for CU affiliated faculty and perhaps graduate students. Offered by the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering CU. Fill an online form to register, and install program setups, e.g., MobaXterm; SSH connection to a remote system)

• Phonetics on speed (tutorial on scripting in Praat, a program for analyzing acoustic speech signals)

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Learning R

• Swirl (learn R, in R)

• STAT 545 (online stats course on R)

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Tips for using R

• List of Handy R Packages

• Free online resource for learning R (for psychologists)

• RStudio cheatsheets (frequently used functions)

• How to plot data using ggplot2 (comprehensive guide)

• Top 50 ggplot2 data visualizations (cheat sheet)

• R resources and readings (by the University of Melbourne)

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ANOVA* (in R)

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Bayesian statistics

• Youtube lecture videos on Bayesian statistics (by Dr. Richard McElreath, author of the acclaimed textbook “Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan”)

• Multilevel Bayesian models for repeated measures data (ebook by linguists; uses brms in R)