Some posters get more attention than others. Either there’s an interesting abstract, an attractive/famous presenter or, my favorite, additional passersby get sucked in by the gravitational force of an existing crowd. Whatever the reason, I’ve started a game called Photos of Popular Posters (PPP). It doesn’t in any way attempt to determine why the poster attracts attention. It’s just a tribute to popularity. So this morning, playing PPP in aisles JJJ and KKK, with an admittedly-small sampling (1 stroll), the largest crowds could be found at:
Corticostriatal and glutamatergic mediation of cognitive flexibility and habit, by Brigman et al. Congratulations – you were popular.
And, Optogenetic manipulation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons: Effects on set-shifting, by Cope et al. Also popular.
Supplemental Methods & Results: Afternoon strolls in the development and in vivo-electrophysiology-during-behavior themes revealed a number of potentially far more popular posters. However, these posters were excluded from the experiment because many of the poster “viewers” were not actively engaged with a poster. Instead, they displayed dazed looks in other directions and appeared to actually be moving, perhaps suffering from SFN exhaustion and traffic jamming.
Who’s this idiot commenting on a 3 year old blog post? I was just scrolling through an image search for locus coeruleus trying to find a flashy image for a presentation. I saw the MUSC logo on the thumbnail and wanted to investigate. It’s me! I am Cope et al. It is surely my greatest professional achievement.
This is definitely the kind of thing you put on your CV btw.
Like it’s not already been done… that’s not the kind of thing you put off.