What we Do

This book would work well for graduate students in applied psychophysiology, as it takes one through a carefully laid out series of steps from the beginning of inspiration through completed investigation and publication.  It is an important resource for anyone reading or producing applied psychophysiology research because most training in research methods do not clearly address applied research.  The book clarifies what applied psychophysiology is and the relationship of biofeedback and neurofeedback to the general field.  It clarifies the need to go beyond reducing type I errors in research.  In particular, the book emphasizes the importance of assessing the power of a design to detect a significant finding if it is present.  It details how sample size and variability in the metrics affect power.  The book also addresses the need in applied research to address effect size.  It is not useful to discuss mechanisms of an effect until one has credible evidence of a sufficiently large effect size.  The book offers a sobering reflection on those who claim that a particular procedure is more efficient than some other procedure.  The research to establish such a claim is expensive and rarely performed, so opinions are offered rather than data.