On academic prose ...
Following writing a book that I hope will be accessible to all (but also interesting to my academic colleagues), I'm having a hard time switching back to academic writing style as I dive back in. I'm struggling with: How much do I need to? Maybe that's just a really bad way to write.
For instance, compare:
Mood is a continuous, ever-present feeling characterized by states like happiness, sadness, anxiousness, and calmness. It is often differentiated from emotions in that emotions are targeted at something specific (such as, "I am disgusted by rotting garbage") whereas we are not always aware of what drives our moods — likely because mood reflects an integration of events that include both external experiences as well as internal physiological states like hunger and hormone fluctuations.
With:
Mood is an affective state typically defined in terms of its slow timescale, integrative properties, and contextual modulation.
Anyone can understand the first; the second is more opaque. But the second is more compact; spelling things out requires space.
Insights appreciated!
I'm looking for papers that *map individual differences in behavior onto neural data*. Like this one by Valeria Fascianelli, Stefano Fusi ++. Any type of creature; any type of mapping. Know any?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50503-w
