Appraisals of Cognitive Neuropsychology

I t's raining today, and I've just emerged from reading a selection of articles on time memory in animals with a view to answering the question "can animals experience episodic memory?"  Turns out that's a pain to answer since there are plenty of mechanisms that can masquerade as reliving an event including learning semantic rules and intervals .  The upshot is we still don't know.  The nice thing about my field however is that when theory tends towards the nebulous - and it frequently does, I can focus on methods for a while to take my mind off things... So, I've run an experiment and have a whole set of reaction times that I'm itching to analyze.  What are my options?  Any good statistician will tell you to plot your data first.  In fact, should you go to see them for advice, they will, with a vague air of distressed incredulity, tell you to go off and plot your data.  Usually I feel slightly ashamed for not having done this already, ...