Howard C. Nusbaum

Jan 11, 2025 | biorxiv.org | John P Veillette |Howard C. Nusbaum

AbstractMuch research in the behavioral sciences aims to characterize the "typical" person. A statistically significant group-averaged effect size is often interpreted as evidence that the typical person shows an effect, but that is only true under certain distributional assumptions for which explicit evidence is rarely presented. Mean effect size varies with both within-participant effect size and population prevalence (proportion of population showing effect).

Oct 3, 2024 | science.org | Adrian C. Hayday |Nicola Festuccia |Roman C. Sarott |Howard C. Nusbaum

Books et al. Science and SocietyPandemic era partisanship inspired an agency leader’s search for better conflict resolutionGet full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. References and Notes1D. V. Jeste et al., Perspect. Biol. Med. 62, 216 (2019). 2I. Grossmann et al., Psychol. Inq. 31, 130 (2020). Books1The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust Francis S. Collins Little, Brown, 2024. 288 pp.

Oct 2, 2024 | elifesciences.org | John P Veillette |Fan Gao |Howard C. Nusbaum |Francesco Longo

eLife assessment This is a binocular rivalry study that uses ECG to present visual stimuli pulsing in line with cardiac events, to examine whether systole-entrained stimuli (i.e. presented during the period where the heart has contracted) are suppressed within visual awareness. Arguably out of line with this idea, the dominance durations were increased for systole-entrained stimuli.

Aug 1, 2024 | biorxiv.org | John P Veillette |Howard C. Nusbaum

AbstractMost research in the behavioral sciences aims to characterize effects of interest using sample means intended to describe the "typical" person. A difference in means is usually construed as a size difference in an effect common across subjects. However, mean effect size varies with both within-subject effect size and population prevalence (proportion of population showing the effect) in compared groups or across conditions.

Dec 16, 2023 | biorxiv.org | John P Veillette |Fan Gao |Howard C. Nusbaum

AbstractSensory signals from the body's visceral organs (e.g. the heart) can robustly influence the perception of exteroceptive sensations. This interoceptive-exteroceptive interaction has been argued to underlie self-awareness by situating one's perceptual awareness of exteroceptive stimuli in the context of one's internal state, but studies probing cardiac influences on visual awareness have yielded conflicting findings.