Hi Benja, thanks for the reply / encouragement. :) I will seriously consider making it to this or another Bristol meetup (I may well in fact be away that weekend, as it’s the bank holiday weekend).
I am indeed doing my MSc in experimental psychology, as a precursor to a PhD in psycholinguistics which I should be starting in the autumn (in the same department). So it’s sort of a shift in fields, but not an especially dramatic one—I took a reasonable amount of experimental psychology during my linguistics undergrad. The decision-making project is really cool! Decision-making is definitely an interest of mine within psychology—I did some work with Simon and Guarav on one of their projects last term (edit: no, actually, I forgot we had another term in there; it was in the autumn), so we have some people in common. It definitely sounds like we could have a fun conversation.
Ah, the bank holiday—drats, I could have thought of that… But great that you’re considering coming! :-) And really cool to hear that you’ve been working with Simon and Gaurav!
BTW, if you’re interested in decision making, you should consider coming to some of the Thursday seminars—we often have really interesting people visit (e.g. recently we’ve had Mike Shadlen, who did some of the ground-breaking work on the neuroscience of decision making that Luke mentions in his crash course).
Hi Benja, thanks for the reply / encouragement. :) I will seriously consider making it to this or another Bristol meetup (I may well in fact be away that weekend, as it’s the bank holiday weekend).
I am indeed doing my MSc in experimental psychology, as a precursor to a PhD in psycholinguistics which I should be starting in the autumn (in the same department). So it’s sort of a shift in fields, but not an especially dramatic one—I took a reasonable amount of experimental psychology during my linguistics undergrad. The decision-making project is really cool! Decision-making is definitely an interest of mine within psychology—I did some work with Simon and Guarav on one of their projects last term (edit: no, actually, I forgot we had another term in there; it was in the autumn), so we have some people in common. It definitely sounds like we could have a fun conversation.
Ah, the bank holiday—drats, I could have thought of that… But great that you’re considering coming! :-) And really cool to hear that you’ve been working with Simon and Gaurav!
BTW, if you’re interested in decision making, you should consider coming to some of the Thursday seminars—we often have really interesting people visit (e.g. recently we’ve had Mike Shadlen, who did some of the ground-breaking work on the neuroscience of decision making that Luke mentions in his crash course).