Cracking the Code: Strategies for Efficiently Reading 50 Neuroscience Papers in a Week

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Join me on an epic journey as I tackle the incredible challenge of reading 50 neuroscience papers in just one week! Discover valuable insights, strategies, and the thrill of diving into the world of scientific literature. Let's push the limits of PhD studies together and conquer this daunting task head-on. Get ready for an adventure in academia like never before! 📚🧠
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - ChatGPT reading schedule
02:24 - Scientific reading technique
04:44 - Tools for reading scientific papers
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www.zotero.org/
www.mendeley.com/
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🙋‍♀️ Hi, my name is Charlotte Fraza a third year PhD student in Computational Neuroscience at the Donders institute in the Netherlands. With this Channel I hope to teach the world about Computational Neuroscience and give current and prospective students the tools to enter this field. I hope you enjoy the videos ❤️.
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[@guimaraesalysson]

50 papers!? Omg. Saving to watch later

[@anirudhsowrirajan3768]

Thank you Charlotte, I've been reading about 4-5 papers a day normally. Now I can read up to 7-8 papers a day, thank you so much

[@JudgeDIALWA]

I am just in my undergraduate level studying for my bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Your content has been helpful to me in approaching my love for research which has been suffering because of my ineffective methods. Really love how you are integrating AI tools to your learning curve. Thanks for sharing.

[@bursucantonia-luciana9380]

Amazing video, great advises

[@sacharymateo1710]

this came just in time, i really need to focus on reading papers, thank you so much♥

[@alejandroguillen8392]

Very helpful as always, Charlotte!

[@yuyan2839]

Thanks for sharing! I have some tasks of intense reading in a short period of time too! Will try to practice these methods!😉

[@CharlotteFraza]

Best of luck!

[@sorcererstone3303]

Charlotte, just curious, have you started writing your PhD thesis yet? Or it is still time to wait while collecting more info? One more question, is there a clearing house web sites where you can find recently published papers in your research area? (Hmm, my apology, you hinted Scopus near the end). I primary search relevant papers from NIH. Thanks in advance.

[@samdandorjmanaljav6877]

Thank you so much. You look so tired, take care of yourself.

[@user-xe7dx8un3i]

This is so inspirational and (more importantly) SO helpful. I'm getting ready to complete a comp neuro project for competitions relating classical music to well-being, so coding along with article grinding is my daily life right now haha. And on top of that, I'm getting ready to apply to colleges (rising senior), so this video you made along with your Notion daily planning video are my current strategies "Bible"... Thanks for being such an inspiration to all of us!

[@CharlotteFraza]

Glad it was helpful! And good luck with your applications 👩‍💻

[@user-xe7dx8un3i]

@@CharlotteFraza Thank you!!😎

[@noorpk]

I Loved Papers more than EndNote or any other tools,..

[@danielamorenoarrieta1708]

Hi! I hope you are doing great. I really enjoy your videos! Greetings from Colombia. I am really curious about PhDs in neuroscience in the Netherlands. I would be very grateful if you could do a video about PhDs salaries and if they are considered good salaries in the Netherlands. Thank you so much.

[@CharlotteFraza]

Yes for sure, I can already tell you that the salary compared to other countries is quite decent, but considered a bit on the low side compared to other jobs. Furthermore, the salary is set per year of the PhD to a specific scale, so every uni will pay you the same and it almost never happens that you do work for free. Good luck with your applications :)

[@sujoh718]

Charlotte, where do you find good papers to read? I'm undergraduate RA in compu-neuroscience lab, and I'm also interested in cognitive, behavioral neuroscience. I just try to find papers in Nature neuroscience, Neuron.. but still hard to find what to read

[@hughhuang9815]

It seems that the pressure of graduation forces me to read and learn, and I know it is not healthy, I just try to find another approach.

[@lajourdanne]

I had to switch to Text-to-Speech apps on 1.7x or 2x speed. My brain can’t handle reading that much anymore. Might still be burnt out from my dissertation though lol

[@SquidwardTentacles_0]

I don't know why, but lately I found it too hard to read anything. mostly books and I'm always searching for audios version. and it's not the best way to keep informations in my brain.

[@Starcell170]

I plan to start a Ph.D. course in the field of computational neuroscience. Do you have any laptops you would like to recommend for graduate students in this field? Or does it not matter that much?

[@CharlotteFraza]

I like a laptop thats linux based, but to be honest it doesnt really matter 🧠🧠

[@Starcell170]

@@CharlotteFraza Thanks!!

[@gaothepotato]

Can you tackle the type of figures/graphs that are usually used in computational neuroscience papers and an overview on how to read each of them/most important things to look at to get key insights to analyze them? I'm an undergraduate student from an engineering background, the process that you suggested (on your other videos as well) in reading paper helped me a lot be more efficient. But when it comes to computational neuroscience papers, I usually get stuck on analyzing the figures since I dont get the idea unless I read the whole paper.

[@CharlotteFraza]

Yes, that sounds like a good idea, which parts do you struggle with the most?

[@noorpk]

I like your videos, but mostly I have different likes...