Toward a Socially Responsible, Transparent, and Reproducible Cognitive Neuroscience

Generalized additive mixed modeling of EEG supports dual-route accounts of morphosyntax in suggesting no word frequency effects on processing of regular grammatical forms

“…Although the generalizability of such second language studies to native language processing remains unclear, these findings raise the possibility that participant individual differences may account for some of our findings. As pointed out by a reviewer, this concern might be mitigated by the fact that our sample for this study was relatively large (N = 56), had a representative mean age above that of the typical college student population (M age = 26.61, SD age = 3.93), and was not extremely unbalanced in terms of gender (with 24 male and 32 female participants); nevertheless, we believe that explicitly recognizing these relevant idiosyncrasies in our sample represents a move towards a more transparent, reproducible, and socially responsible neuroscience (Ashburn et al, 2020).…”