Lab meeting archive

Modified

December 16, 2025

Fall 2025

For the Fall 2025 Semester, we will meet on Thursdays from 8:00-8:50 am in room 467 Moore.

Psych 494 Syllabus

Monday, December 15, 2025

Lab Breakfast

8:00 am

@ The Waffle Shop Downtown

Thursday, December 11, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Lina and Isabella Graduating! Congratulations!
  3. Discussed virtues of using reference mangers (e.g. Zotero, EndNote, Paperpile, Honeybear)
  4. Planned meeting time next semester: Wednesdays 4-5pm

Thursday, December 4, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss Science Communication
  3. Homework
    • Update Spring Calendar

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Lab Roundtable with Dounuts

Thursday, November 13, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. More on Autism and Tylenol: What’s the evidence?

Thursday, November 6, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Autism and Tylenol: What’s the evidence?

Thursday, October 30, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Big data developmental neuroscience
  1. Homework
  • Bring in any relevant papers to:
    • Acetaminophen use during pregnancy
    • Autism
    • Circumcision

Thursday, October 23, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Open scholarship overview
  1. Homework

Thursday, October 16, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Continue Databrary overview
  • review May 2025 Association for Psychological Science (APS) presentation
  1. Homework
  • Read: Gilmore & Qian (2021)
  • Review: “Open Scholarship Initiative” (n.d.); Gilmore & Pearce (2025)

Thursday, October 9, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Databrary overview
  • Read: Gilmore & Adolph (2017), Gilmore, Kennedy, & Adolph (2018)
  • Review: Gilmore, Seisler, Soska, Xu, & Liu (2025)
  1. Discuss Quarto/Rmarkdown Databrary User Guide & How to create biographies
  1. Homework

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Thursday, September 25, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. PLAY project overview
  • Read: Soska et al. (2021)
  • Review: Soska, Hertzberg, Adolph, Gilmore, & Tamis-Lemonda (n.d.-b); Soska, Hertzberg, Adolph, Gilmore, & Tamis-Lemonda (n.d.-a)
  1. Homework
  • Read: Gilmore & Adolph (2017), Gilmore et al. (2018)
  • Review: Gilmore, Seisler, et al. (2025)

Thursday, September 18, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Visual acuity project overview
  • Discuss: Neijzen et al. (2025); Gilmore, DiFulvio, Beamer, & Cruz (2025) | poster
  1. Homework
  • Read: Soska et al. (2021)
  • Review: Soska et al. (n.d.-b); Soska et al. (n.d.-a)
  • Please send Outstanding Requred Training Certificates to the lab email

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Cancelled

Thursday, September 4, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Introductions
  3. Fall 2025 Lab Priorities (Rick)
  1. Homework - Required Training

Spring 2025

For the Spring 2025 Semester, we will meet on Fridays 8:00-8:50 am in room 444 Moore.

Spring 2025 Commencement

Tuesday May 6, 2025

Lab Breakfast

8:00 am

@ The Waffle Shop Downtown

Friday May 2, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss (Brown & Yamamoto, 1986) and (Neijzen et al., 2025)
  • Add (Brown & Yamamoto, 1986) data to typical/atypical developing datasets
  • Review TELLER ACUITY CARDS™ II TAC II Manual (Co., n.d.) and ensure all papers at the end are in paperpile
  1. Homework
  • If you will be here in the for the Fall 2025 semester, please update your google calendar with your schedule before August 1, 2025.

Friday April 25, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Review Draft of VSS Poster Scipted using Quarto

Homework: Read paper (Brown & Yamamoto, 1986) here

Friday April 18, 2025

Meeting Cancelled!

Friday April 11, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Spot Check Visual Acuity Data
  • add column for units (cyc/deg and logMAR-Logarithmic Measure of Angle of Resolution)
  • how to QA - person 1 read from table, person 2 look at data in google sheets
  • CRAN: library(eye), library(eyedata) Package Info
  • Snellen to logMAR: logMAR = -1 * log10(snellen_frac)
  • To Snellen: Although there seems to be no good statistical reason to convert back to Snellen, it is a very natural thing to eye specialists to think in Snellen. A conversion to snellen gives a good gauge of how the visual acuity for the patients are. However, back-conversion should not be considered an exact science and any attempt to use formulas will result in very weird Snellen values that have no correspondence to common charts. Therefore, Snellen matching the nearest ETDRS and logMAR value in the VA conversion chart are used.
  1. Review PLAY Survey Data - Rothbart ECBQ

Friday, April 4, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, & Altman, 2009)

Friday March 28, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Visual Acuity Update
  3. Psy Chi Poster Update
  4. PAGC Poster Update
  5. Schedule more Visual Acuity Work Sessions for Thursday afternoons - on gilmore lab calendar

Homework

  1. Read (Moher et al., 2009)

Friday, March 7, 2025

Friday, February 28, 2025

Meeting Cancelled!

Friday, February 21, 2025

  1. Attending

  2. Visual Acuity Update

  3. Julia Present (Palmer et al., 2005)

  4. Accept invitation to DataCamp sent to your PSU email address - Brianna B.

  5. Upcoming Events

  • 2/25 Visual Acuity Work Session, 503 Moore, 1:30-3:30pm
  • 2/28 Dr. Gilmore Present (Page et al., 2021)
  1. Homework

Friday, February 14, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Paige Present: (Thunstedt et al., 2022)
  3. Visual Acuity Update
  • almost done with source
  1. Accept invitation to DataCamp sent to your PSU email address - Bri, Gavin, Brianna, Bruna
  2. Poster Presentation Opportunities
  • Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, is hosting its annual Spring Research Conference in April.
    • 2/21: Submit application at 11:59pm
    • 4/23: 1:30-4:30pm In-person Conference, Moore Atrium
    • 4/23: 6:00 -7:00pm Virtual Conference, Zoom
  • The Undergraduate Exhibition is in April
    • 2/24: application will be available
    • 3/17: application due date
    • 4/14-16: Virtual Exhibition
    • 4/16: 11am-1pm In-Person Poster Presentation, Alumni Hall, HUB
    • 4/17: 7:30-9pm An Evening of Creative Inquiry in Music, Recital Hall
  1. Upcoming Events
  1. Homework

Friday, February 7, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Visual Acuity Project
  • Review New Protocol
  • Schedule work sessions
    • 2/11/2025 1:30-3:30pm 503 Moore
  1. Upcoming Talks ~15 min
  1. Upcoming Meetings
  • Visual Acuity: Mondays 12:00-1:00 in 503 Moore
  • PLAY: Mondays 2:30-3:30 in 503 Moore
  • Working Session - Visual Acuity: Tuesdays 1:30-3:30 in 503 Moore
  1. Homework

Friday, January 31, 2025

  1. Attending: Rick, Kassandra, Nicole, Paige, Brianna, Trinity, Hayley, Bri, Lina

  2. Trinity present Freud, S., (1913). Further recommendations in the technique of psycho-analysis. In Stachey, J., & Freud, A., (Eds.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, (Vol. XII., pp. 164-191).

Weekly Project Meetings

  • Visual Acuity: Mondays 12:00-1:00 in 503 Moore
  • PLAY: Mondays 2:30-3:30 in 503 Moore

Upcoming Talks ~15 min

  • 2/7: Paige present
  • 2/14: Julia present

To Do:

Friday, January 24, 2025

  1. Attending
  2. Introductions
  3. Spring 2025 Lab Priorities (Rick)
  1. Continue working on required training: Instructions

Scheduled Weekly Project Meetings

  • Visual Acuity: Mondays 1:30-2:30 in 503 Moore
  • PLAY: Mondays 2:30-3:30 in 503 Moore

Upcoming Talks ~15 min

  • 1/31: Trinity present - Freud
  • 2/7: Paige present
  • 2/14: Julia present - Neurogenetics

Fall 2024

For the Fall 2024 Semester, we will meet on Thursdays 8:00-8:50 am in room 444 Moore.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 503 Moore

  1. Visual Acuity Project - Paper analysis work session

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 503 Moore

  1. Visual Acuity Project - Paper analysis training session

Thursday, October 24, 2024

  1. Discuss Franconeri, Padilla, Shah, Zacks, & Hullman (2021) and look at data visualizations provided by lab members.
  2. Catch up on Training/Biography/Datacamp Status

Thursday, October 17, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Andrea, Brianna, Nicole, Julia, Lina, Hayley, Kassandra, Megan, Trinity
  1. Watched and discussed some of Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and Slow
  2. To Do
  • Read (Franconeri et al., 2021) and be prepared to discuss on 10/24.
  • Bring at least 2 data visualizations that you want to talk about.
  • Create a Datacamp account with your psu email account and accept the invitation to the PSY 494 space if you have not already
  • Continue working on required training: Instructions

Thursday, October 10, 2024

  1. Attending
  2. Data visualization paper journal club on (Franconeri et al., 2021).
  • Bring at least 2 data visualizations that you want to talk about.
  • Discussion notes from Spring 2024
  1. Biography status

Thursday, October 3, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Andrea, Lina, Hayley, Gavin, Nicole, Brianna, Trinity, Megan, Bruna, Kassandra
  1. Learn R using Datacamp
  • First Assignment Introduction to R - Due 10/10
  1. Training new/returning lab members Instructions
  • CITI, Clery Act, Reporting Suspected Child Abuse, Compliance Training, Title IX
  1. Write Biographies use Markdown Cheatsheet create links
  2. ARS To Do
  • send all lab members links to Datacamp

Thursday, September 26, 2024

  1. Attending
  2. Legacy Project discussion
  3. Brief DataCamp Discussion
  • was group approved?
  1. Need volunteers for

Thursday, September 19, 2024 - CANCELLED

Thursday, September 12, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Andrea, Brianna, Bruna, Hayley, Lina, Gavin, Nicole, Paige, Julia, Trinity
  1. Project updates
  • PLAY
  1. Onboarding and Training and orientation (Andrea)
  2. Need volunteers for
  • Lab meeting scribe
  • Lab blogger
  1. Plans for next two weeks

Thursday, September 5, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Julia, Bruna, Hayley, Gavin, Brianna, Trinity, Nicole, Paige, Lina
  1. Introductions
  2. Orientation to Fall 2024 lab priorities (Rick)
  3. Onboarding and Training and orientation (Andrea)
  4. Schedule

Spring 2024

For the Spring 2024 Semester, we will meet on Tuesdays 8:00-8:50 am in room 444 Moore.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

  • No meeting; Election Day

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

  • Attending: Andrea, Rick, Belle, Trinity
  • Plan lab breakfast
  • Yiming presentation (tentative)

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

  1. Brianna & Rick ggplot2
  1. Datacamp check-in

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Warning

Cancelled because of bad weather

  1. Brianna & Rick ggplot2
  • Assignment: Install (or update) RStudio.
  1. Datacamp check-in

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Rick, Bruna, Julia, Molly, Belle, Brianna, Paige, Andrea, Nicole
  1. Announcements
  • Weekly lab times: Tue 9-11 (Molly, Julia, Paige, Liu, Belle), Thu 10:30-12 (Brianna, Julia, Bruna), Fri 11-1 (Nicole, Peter, Bruna, Brianna?)
  1. Belle (& Rick) presentation/discussion of:

Soska, K. C., Xu, M., Gonzalez, S. L., Herzberg, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O. & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of Escience Librarianship, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208.

Quarto slides

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Rick, Belle, Brianna, Andrea, Paige, Molly, Liu, Peter
  • Bruna, Julia, Yiming, Nicole (unable to attend)
  1. Datacamp check-in
  2. Confirm team work schedule
  • Tue 9-11; Thu 10:30-12; Fri 11-1
  1. Peter paper presentation

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

  1. Attending
  • Nicole, Belle, Julia, Bruna, Liu, Andrea, Yiming, Rick, Peter
  1. Status Report
  2. Schedule Outstanding Lab Member Presentations from last semester
    • ggplot2 interactive (Brianna, Rick) demo?
    • Peter paper discussion?
  3. Missing Webpage Biography
    • Molly, Julia, Bruna

CANCELLED Tuesday, January 16, 2024

  1. Status Report
  2. Schedule Outstanding Lab Member Presentations from last semester
    • ggplot2 interactive (Brianna, Rick) demo?
    • Peter paper discussion?
  3. Missing Webpage Biography
    • Molly, Julia, Bruna

Fall 2023

Monday, December 11, 2023

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

  • Julia will lead a discussion of a paper: (Courage & Adams, 1990).
    • Link to Legacy Project: Acuity dataset.
  • ggplot2 interactive (Brianna, Rick) demo.
  • Attendees: Julia, Liu, Madison, Belle, Briana, Yiming, Rick, Andrea

Tuesday, November, 28, 2023 CANCELLED

  • Julia will lead a discussion of a paper.
  • Peter will lead a discussion of a paper:

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

  • Status report on DataCamp.
  • Schedule end of semester breakfast.
  • PLAY status (Madison & Belle).
  • Liu will discuss his work on the Databrary Guide and how using ChatGPT has been helpful to that work.
  • Legacy Project: Visual Acuity update (Rick, Brianna, Julia, Nicole, Peter).

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

No lab meeting

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

  • Add PDF and reference to paper (Birch et al., 2022) discussed last week.
  • Practice visualizations of ruler reaction time data.

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

  1. Peter will lead a discussion of Birch, E. E., Hudgins, L. A., Jost, R. M., Cheng-Patel, C. S., Morale, S. E. & Kelly, K. R. (2022). Web-based visual acuity testing for children. Journal of AAPOS: The Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus / American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 26(2), 61.e1–e61.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2021.11.007. PDF.
  2. Watch video(s) from https://mgto.org/meta-analysis-registered-reports/ on meta-analyses and registered reports.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

  1. Project updates/work session
  2. Using R, R Markdown & Quarto (Rick & Andrea)
    • Planning
      • Goals
      • Are data sensitive or not
    • Create repo
    • Create RStudio project
    • Create stub site/documents
    • On data page
      • Purpose
      • Gathering
      • Cleaning
      • Visualization
    • Commit (& usually push)
    • Here is the page we generated: https://gilmore-lab.github.io/ruler-reaction-time/
  3. Announcement
    • Next week (2023-10-17) Peter will lead a discussion of Birch, E. E., Hudgins, L. A., Jost, R. M., Cheng-Patel, C. S., Morale, S. E. & Kelly, K. R. (2022). Web-based visual acuity testing for children. Journal of AAPOS: The Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus / American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 26(2), 61.e1–e61.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2021.11.007.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

No lab meeting

Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 350 Moore

  1. Project updates

Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 350 Moore

  1. Looking for:
    • Web site master
    • databraryr package tester and help with documentation.
    • Sign-up for Hypothes.is
  2. Future meetings
    • Readings related to PLAY, visual acuity project, Databrary
      • Peter will look at: Teller, D. Y., McDonald, M. A., Preston, K., Sebris, S. L. & Dobson, V. (1986). Assessment of visual acuity in infants and children: The acuity card procedure. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 28(6), 779–789. As candidate for reading as a group. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1986.tb03932.x
    • Work sessions on using Quarto and R Studio.
    • Learning Mermaid and Graphviz tools from Quarto.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 350 Moore

  1. What is PLAY? (Madison)
  2. Introducing the Legacy Project: Visual Acuity (Rick)

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 350 Moore

  1. Assigning work teams (Andrea)
  2. Watch

NYU Health Sciences Library. (2013, 13. November). Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts (Higher Quality). Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66oNv_DJuPc

  1. Discuss project team assignments (Rick)

Tuesday, 8/29/2023, 350 Moore

  1. Introductions
  2. Orientation to Fall 2023 lab priorities (Rick)
  3. Onboarding and Training and orientation (Andrea)
  4. Schedule

Goals

Previous meeting notes

Notes from previous semesters

References

Birch, E. E., Hudgins, L. A., Jost, R. M., Cheng-Patel, C. S., Morale, S. E., & Kelly, K. R. (2022). Web-based visual acuity testing for children. Journal of AAPOS: The Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus / American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 26(2), 61.e1–61.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2021.11.007
Brown, A. M., & Yamamoto, M. (1986). Visual acuity in newborn and preterm infants measured with grating acuity cards. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 102, 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9394(86)90153-4
Cleveland, W. S., & McGill, R. (1985). Graphical perception and graphical methods for analyzing scientific data. Science, 229(4716), 828–833. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.229.4716.828
Co., S. O. (n.d.). TELLER ACUITY CARDS™ II TAC II. Retrieved from https://eiiwebassets.s3.amazonaws.com/s/sterooptical/pdf/other-manuals/TAC_II_manual.pdf
Courage, M. L., & Adams, R. J. (1990). Visual acuity assessment from birth to three years using the acuity card procedure: Cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. Optometry and Vision Science: Official Publication of the American Academy of Optometry, 67(9), 713–718. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006324-199009000-00011
Franconeri, S. L., Padilla, L. M., Shah, P., Zacks, J. M., & Hullman, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works. Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society, 22(3), 110–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211051956
Friel, S. N., Curcio, F., & Bright, G. (2001). Making sense of graphs: Critical factors influencing comprehension and instructional implications. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 32, 124–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/749671
Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioural science more reproducible. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0128
Gilmore, R. O., DiFulvio, J., Beamer, B., & Cruz, N. (2025). Synthesizing evidence about developmental patterns in human visual acuity as measured by teller acuity cards. Journal of Vision, 25, 2456. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.9.2456
Gilmore, R. O., Kennedy, J. L., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). Practical solutions for sharing data and materials from psychological research. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917746500
Gilmore, R. O., & Pearce, A. (2025, August 13). Bootcamp 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16966756
Gilmore, R. O., & Qian, Y. (2021). An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2254
Gilmore, R. O., Seisler, A., Soska, K., Xu, M., & Liu, Y. (2025, June 4). Databrary guide. Retrieved September 4, 2025, from https://databrary.github.io/guide/
Herzenstein, M., Rosario, S., Oblander, S., & Netzer, O. (2024). The language of (non)replicable social science. Psychological Science, 35, 1048–1061. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241254037
Moher, D., Liberati, A., Tetzlaff, J., & Altman, D. G. (2009). Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement. Annals of Internal Medicine, 151, 264–269. Retrieved from https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/744664/[XSLTImagePath]
Neijzen, C. M., Wit, F. M. de, Hettinga, Y. M., Boer, J. H. de, Genderen, M. M. van, & Wit, G. C. de. (2025). Reference values for the teller acuity cards II (TAC II) in infants and preverbal children, a meta-analysis. Acta Ophthalmologica. https://doi.org/10.1111/aos.17447
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Shaw, K. A., Williams, S., Patrick, M. E., Valencia-Prado, M., Durkin, M. S., Howerton, E. M., … Maenner, M. J. (2025). Prevalence and early identification of autism spectrum disorder among children aged 4 and 8 years - autism and developmental disabilities monitoring network, 16 sites, united states, 2022. MMWR Surveillance Summaries, 74, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7402a1
Soska, K. C., Hertzberg, O., Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., & Tamis-Lemonda, C. S. (n.d.-a). An hour in the life. Retrieved September 4, 2025, from https://www.anhourinthelife.org/
Soska, K. C., Hertzberg, O., Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., & Tamis-Lemonda, C. S. (n.d.-b). Play & learning across a year. Retrieved September 4, 2025, from https://play-project.org/
Soska, K. C., Xu, M., Gonzalez, S. L., Herzberg, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of Escience Librarianship, 10. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208
Thunstedt, D. C., Schmutzer, M., Fabritius, M. P., Thorsteinsdottir, J., Kunz, M., Ruscheweyh, R., & Straube, A. (2022). Headache characteristics and postoperative course in chiari I malformation. Cephalalgia: An International Journal of Headache, 42, 879–887. https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024221079296