Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Biography
Tal Yarkoni is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He likes ice cream, Python, and research methods – probably in that order. His research lies at the interface of psychology, neuroimaging, and informatics, and focuses on developing new methods for acquiring, managing, and synthesizing behavioral and neuroimaging data.
Specific themes include tools for automated meta-analysis and analysis specification for fMRI; more efficient measurement of personality and individual differences; and exploration of the assumptions underlying commonly used statistical methods in the social and biomedical sciences.