Think you have remarkable memory traits? Share them by participating in the Harvard PGP-Lumosity Memory Challenge - Citizen Science Salon : Citizen Science Salon

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Summary:

"In 2005, [George Church] launched the Personal Genome Project (PGP), which collects data on a person’s DNA, environmental background, and relevant health and disease information from consenting participants. The premise of the PGP is grounded in open science, meaning that all this data is publicly available to researchers, who then study the relationship between specific DNA sequences and various displayed traits, like having an especially good memory.

This openness is the hallmark of the PGP, described on their website as “a vision and coalition of projects across the world dedicated to creating public genome, health, and trait data.” The PGP seeks to share data for the “greater good” in ways that have been previously “hampered by traditional research practices.” In other words, by being set up so it’s open-access project that allows individuals to freely share their data with researchers, no single researcher can “control” access to the data. By inviting participants to openly share their own personal data, this project allows individuals to directly impact scientific progress...."

Link:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/citizen-science-salon/2018/07/09/think-you-have-remarkable-memory-traits-share-them-by-participating-in-the-harvard-pgp-lumosity-memory-challenge/#.W0Ty-9VKhhF

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oa.new oa.medicine oa.biology oa.crowd oa.privacy oa.data oa.open_science hu.oa oa.lay

Date tagged:

07/10/2018, 13:59

Date published:

07/10/2018, 09:59