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okay, so my research is on Fragile X and Down Syndrome.
Currently, I'm still in the testing stages of DS, but for FXS we are doing data analysis, and I have to do a lot of video-coding, and doing intra-reliability (that means double the fun...yay). so each session is 30 minutes long and I follow a mouse on a 15in black and white screen coding his hyperactivity and behavior on a 5-choice discrimination test (up to 70 trials total).
After about 5 minutes...i can feel my mind starting to slip unless the animal is very hyperactive. any advice on how to stay attentive? I don't want to start over after 10 minutes because I made a stupid mistake like not realize the mouse was grooming for 2 seconds because I dazed out or something.
The sooner I get through this, the sooner we can start putting together the results and discussion section of the paper to publish. at this rate, i'm not even sure i'm going to be done by the end of the semester. just need some tactics here to stay sharp. any advice is welcomed.
Currently, I'm still in the testing stages of DS, but for FXS we are doing data analysis, and I have to do a lot of video-coding, and doing intra-reliability (that means double the fun...yay). so each session is 30 minutes long and I follow a mouse on a 15in black and white screen coding his hyperactivity and behavior on a 5-choice discrimination test (up to 70 trials total).
After about 5 minutes...i can feel my mind starting to slip unless the animal is very hyperactive. any advice on how to stay attentive? I don't want to start over after 10 minutes because I made a stupid mistake like not realize the mouse was grooming for 2 seconds because I dazed out or something.
The sooner I get through this, the sooner we can start putting together the results and discussion section of the paper to publish. at this rate, i'm not even sure i'm going to be done by the end of the semester. just need some tactics here to stay sharp. any advice is welcomed.