**CANAL Lab Manual**
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Welcome to the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab (aka CANAL Lab)!
This wiki provides instructions for how our lab operates.
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*I am grateful to Buddhika Bellana for allowing me to use his OSF site and manual as a template for the CANAL lab. The early version of this site uses much of his wording and organization, but as noted below, this is a **living document**, and over time these sites will diverge.*
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This is a **living document**. Science is constantly evolving. As resources develop and our shared knowledge grows, this document should be updated as well.
As members of the lab, it is **our responsibility** to keep this document up-to-date.
By doing so, we make sure that our work is **well-documented** and **easily communicated**. Science is all about building up from existing foundations. It's a [slow](http://slow-science.org/slow-science-manifesto.pdf) and [painstaking](https://theconversation.com/how-slow-science-can-improve-the-way-we-do-and-interpret-research-90168) process. But, the better we document our *current work*, the more likely it will be able to serve as a useful foundation for research for *years to come*.
**You**, as a lab member, are welcome to **edit this Wiki**. Make it a priority to add helpful resources, document standard procedures and update existing content. Just remember to scroll down and click 'Save' to keep your changes.
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Parts of this lab manual have been inspired by/stolen from other lab manuals. Thanks to: [Buddhika Bellana](https://www.buddhikabellana.com/),
[Raymond Mar](https://www.yorku.ca/mar/), [Mariam Aly](https://osf.io/mdh87/wiki/home/), [Maureen Ritchey](http://www.thememolab.org/resources/), [Zhong Xu Liu](https://zhongxuliu.wixsite.com/cogneurolab), [Candice Morey](https://ccmorey.github.io/labHandbook/), [Anne Urai](https://anne-urai.github.io/lab_wiki/), [Wei Ji Ma](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f6foaCkHiCkPKjO0gdKkkdm2dn1EKn5xRKZv-Ut5Dg4/edit#), and this crowdsourced [lab manual template](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqGdtHg0dMbj9lsCnC1QOoWzIsnSNRTSek6i3Kls2Ik/edit).
