Books (favourites)

Perception

• Goldstein, E. Sensation and perception. Cengage Learning, 2013.

Psychophysics

• 2013 Lu Dosher. Visual Psychophysics.

• 2012 Knoblauch Maloney. Modeling psyhophysical data in R.

• 2016 Kingdom Prins. Psychophysics: A practical introduction.

• 2004 Macmillan Creelman. Detection theory.

• 2002 Wickens, T. D. Elementary signal detection theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Fig 1.1. I think that False Alarms cannot not be retrieved using the proposed method under SDT framework given that LRT doesn’t result in a decision rule X>C for unequal variance normal distributions.

• 1997 Gescheider. Psychophysics: the fundamentals.

• 1966 Green Swets. Signal detection theory and psychophysics.

Vision

• 2012 Daw. How vision works.

• 1996 Wandell. Foundations on vision.

• 1988 De Valois De Valois. Spatial vision.

Statistics

• 2014 Crawley. Statistics: An introduction using R.

• 2014 Pewsey Neuhauser. Circular statitistics in R.

• 2013 Danielle Navarro. Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners.

• 2012 Field Miles Field. Discovering statistics using R.

• 2008 Dalgaard. Introductory statistics with R.

• 2005 Young, G. A., & Smith, R. L. Essentials of statistical inference (Vol. 16). Cambridge University Press.

• 2004 Wasserman, L. All of statistics. Springer Science & Business Media.

• 2004 Motulsky Christopoulos. Fitting Models to Biological Data Using Linear and Nonlinear Regression: A Practical Guide to Curve Fitting.

• 2002 Bertsekas, D. P., & Tsitsiklis, J. N. Introduction to probability (Vol. 1). Belmont, MA: Athena Scientific.

• 2002 Casella, G., & Berger, R. L. Statistical inference (Vol. 2). Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury.

• 2002 Burnham Anderson. Model Selection and Multi-Model Inference.

• 1995 Schervish, M.J. Theory of statistics.

Writing style, publishing

• 2014 Pinker. The sense of style.

• 2012 Sword. Stylish academic writing.

• 2011 Lisberger. From science to citation.

• 2005 Kirkman. Good style. Writing for science and technology.

• 1999 Strunk White. The elements of style.

• 1998 Alley. The craft of scientific writing.

Computational neuroscience

• 2011 Trommershauser Kording. Sensory cue integration.

• 2010 Gabbiani Cox. Mathematics for neuroscientists.

• 2001 Abbott Dayan. Theoretical Neuroscience. Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems.

Neuroscience (public)

• 2014 Dehaene. Consciousness and the brain.

• 2012 Koch. Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

• 2012 Buonomano. Brain bugs.

• 2008 Kandel. In search of memory.