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Brock Kirwan

@brockkirwan.com

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Cognitive neuroscientist studying memory and decision making. How do we remember episodes and how do those memories help us make better decisions?

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 07/05/2026

Philly folks! Im giving a presentation tomorrow afternoon on study skills at the Kingsessing library. It’s targeted to students with ADHD, but all my tips are cognitive psychology based and will be helpful for anyone. @pennmindcore.bsky.social

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 04/05/2026

The one thing that we found to be associated with prestige was journal impact factor--higher prestige predicted higher impact factors. I have theories about why this might be (perhaps pressure to publish in high-IF journals at some institutions), but we'd need to do an intervention to say more.

A scatter plot depicting prestige score was a significant predictor of journal impact factor, with studies from higher prestige institutions more likely to be published in high impact factor journals.

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 04/05/2026

We thought that authors from higher prestige universities might get a break on the number of subjects needed to publish an fMRI study. In fact, the opposite is true--higher prestige is associated with larger sample sizes.

Scatter plot depicting a composite prestige score derived from first and last author institution ranking and h-index values positively predicted adjusted sample size in fMRI studies.

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 26/09/2025

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 21/09/2025

I clicked "accept invitation to review" for a paper and got this message. What a delightful surprise! You could make a fortune bottling and selling that feeling.

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 01/09/2025

I don’t think I’ve shared my stained glass hobby on bluesky before. Rainbow brain sun catchers for the holiday weekend, restocked now on my Etsy.

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 16/12/2024

New mock MRI scanner arrived today! Great for collecting pretend data :)

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 21/01/2024

New stained glass design. More designs on my Etsy brocksbrains.etsy.com

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 31/10/2023

I have never laughed harder than when I walked into class today to discover my students all dressed as me for Halloween.

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