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Do eye movements reflect readersβ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001114
Are you reading this now? Are you paying attention? The dichotomy on/off task does not cover the [β¦]
06.08.2025 13:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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A couple of new features in my tool for running surprisal experiments with transformer models:
1. Interactive mode for quick ad-hoc experiments.
2. Uses GPU if available.
3. More models supported out of the box
4. Much easier to install and use thanks to uv.
This is still not a super polished [β¦]
03.04.2025 10:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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HernΓ‘n MA, Robins JM (2020). Causal Inference: What If. π
https://miguelhernan.org/whatifbook
Hit the link (grey rectangle under the book cover) to download - scroll down for code
There is even bits on colliders!
"Causal graphs theory shows that
indeed conditioning on a collider like L [β¦]
12.03.2025 06:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
T-shirt with Mundus sine caesaribus written on it - what Bluesky CEO Jay Graber wore at SXSW 2025 - but I'm posting it here :)
Choosing a t-shirt...
11.03.2025 03:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Research Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive
Does amplitude compression help or hinder attentional neural speech tracking?
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/01/17/JNEUROSCI.0238-24.2024
"[R]esults imply that intelligent compression algorithms, with variable compression ratios applied to [β¦]
24.01.2025 05:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-024-02546-6
OpenPose (OP) vs Vicon (ground truth). OP: overall moderate accuracy - varies substantially across [β¦]
07.01.2025 02:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Interesting -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-024-02563-5
Study of 45 mother-child dance pairs compared two synchrony measures: cross-wavelet transform (CWT) of head movements and generalized CWT that analyzes synchrony across multiple body parts. Simple CWT correlated with [β¦]
16.12.2024 09:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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The fundamentals of eye tracking part 1: The link between theory and research question
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-024-02544-8
Explores the relationship between theory, research question & use of eye-tracking - aims to guide readers is eye tracking suitable & how to [β¦]
15.12.2024 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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The lateral thalamus: A bridge between multisensory processing
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(24)00227-3
Discusses recent findings (mostly rodent studies) extending the classical view of lateral thalamus as a passive relay - it links multimodal features & [β¦]
15.12.2024 09:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Hypothesized sound phoneme & visual grapheme tokens representing the same linguistic identity would recruit common neural substrates despite originating from different sensory modalities
https://www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S0306-4522(24)00699-7/fulltext
Domain-general mapping for [β¦]
05.12.2024 21:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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A function-based mapping of sensory integration along the cortical hierarchy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07224-z
MRI study develops new way to measure sensory integration in the brain: "sensory magnitude" tracks variance from 3 primary signals & decreases up the hierarchy [β¦]
01.12.2024 10:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Applying the efficient coding principle to understand encoding of multisensory and multimodality sensory signals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698924001330
Study explains why brain areas MST/MT have neurons tuned to both matching & opposing sensory signals. This [β¦]
01.12.2024 10:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0