Yue Du

This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hypothesis Testing Governs an Efficiency-Flexibility Trade-off in Strategic Motor Learning It remains unknown how people discover an effective movement strategy when the environment changes (e.g., when adapting to a new computer trackpad). We propose that strategic adaptation operates throu...

New preprint! tinyurl.com/y6z57dsm

How do people discover an effective strategy when the environment shifts—say, when adapting to an unfamiliar trackpad?

Our take: strategic motor adaptation isn’t a smooth process of error reduction but rather a process of hypothesis testing.

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Congratulations!!

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...

New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.

Overview 🧵 below...

Principles for proper peer review

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
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@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia.

👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

New pre-print!

We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.

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Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science This study reveals that non-native English speakers, especially early in their careers, spend more effort than native English speakers in conducting scientific activities, from reading and writing pap...

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Congratulations on a great paper!

Thank you Josh.

Very excited to share our new paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com.

Congrats, Sam.

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