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Congratulations to Saloni Krishnan on winning the OSF pre-registration challenge!

Congratulationbs to Saloni Krishnan for winning $1000 in the Open Science Framework Pre-registration challenge for her recently published paper on word learning 

Krishnan S, Watkins KE, Bishop DVM (2017) The effect of recall, reproduction, and restudy on word learning: a pre-registered study. BMC Psychol. 5(1):28. 

Read more about the challenge here and of Saloni's experience with results-free reviewing on her blog.

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