What new ideas, challenges, or other issues have you encountered with regard to your project (this might include data collection, information that contradicts your assumptions or the assertions of others, materials that have enriched your understanding of the topic or led you to change your project, etc.)? How have these ideas or challenges shaped the bigger picture of your research? Has the scope or focus of your topic changed since you began this project? If so, how?
By far the biggest challenge of my work at the start was the shift from Mental Imagery and Confidence, to Attention and confidence. The sheer size and number of divides within attention as a subject is daunting. Because it is so hotly debated, I struggled to find one clear path to intersecting it with confidence. Luckily, it was in these debates about attention and confidence that I found a clearer path to a my research on confidence and how we can find neural correlates of confidence that work in context.
Where does your research take place--or where is a favorite place to conduct your research? Post a photo!
Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of the main place my research takes place which is Schermerhorn 200A. However, as much as I enjoy the work the room is far from aesthetically pleasing.
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Kevin, I appreciate that in your moment of confusion and struggle, you were able to find a clearer path about how to conduct your research and how to intersect attention with confidence. In my experience, I also have found clarity in these moments where it feels like I've hit a dead end or don't know if things will turn out the way I envisioned and I think it makes the research more interesting!