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Ooh interesting - different methods of assessing TMS responses give quite different answers. Relevant for @tmsmultilab.bsky.social!

Different ways of ‘getting a grip’ Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing varying levels of dexterity and climbing ability

Different ways of ‘getting a grip’. How ancient human relatives in South Africa used their #hands reveals varying levels of dexterity & climbing ability. New study by a team led by Samar Syeda & @tracykivell.bsky.social. #hominins #evolution @amnh.org tinyurl.com/mwk5eb63 & doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Amazing opportunity alert!

At Reviewer Zero, we're passionate about helping early career researchers navigate the challenges of the peer review system. If you're an early career researcher in psych & neuro and feel stuck & need advice for a manuscript, check out this opportunity!

Informal poll: if you're testing emotion recognition in your lab using faces, do you think it necessary to also believe in 1:1 mapping of emotion & expression? Or do you think that's not a thing, but you're happy to test recognition as correct or not, nonetheless? #affectsci #neuroskyence

"Your AI can’t see gorillas!"
A few years ago we found that students are more likely to see the gorilla in their data if they are not also asked to test a specific hypothesis. In his blog Chiraag Gohel now shows that Chat-GPT can’t help you to find it either.
chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Debunking the Myth of Excitatory and Inhibitory Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Research Abstract. Repetitive TMS (rTMS) is a powerful neuroscientific tool with the potential to noninvasively identify brain–behavior relationships in humans. Early work suggested that certain rTMS protocols...

Happy Theta Burst Day, everyone!

20 years old today 🥳 #TMS #BrainStim

a colleague sent this present for you all:

doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

Come and work with us and do a PhD with on a very exciting project #neurojobs

Thank you!

Brilliant! Please could you add me?

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings
@naturecomms.bsky.social
▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce".

Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint:

arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

📣It is an exciting day at the CNU, several of our team have been working on a NIBS data repository and have now officially launched 'Big NIBS data'-an open-access platform and repository for non-invasive brain stimulation data! See here: bignibsdata.com.
(also see preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...)

Yes

There’s an interesting narrative on cultural evolution emerging here.

Naive (Western) individuals intuitively suck at knots. As shown by this cool new experimental work—but also something I’ve noticed as an outdoors hobbyist.

Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex - Nature Biomedical Engineering An analysis of the localization and intensity of intracortical microstimulation in three participants with cervical spinal cord injury shows that overlapping projected fields from multiple electrodes ...

Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Older women participating to a race at the Senior Games 2023.

⚠️ New preprint !
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. 
How comes?

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7

Body and self: a dialogue between philosophy and neuroscience Join us for the next BRNet seminar with Ana Tajadura-Jiménez and Adrian Alsmith.

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨

Join the next #BRNet Seminar:
💭 Body and Self: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Neuroscience with @anatajadura.bsky.social & Adrian Alsmith.
📅 Jan 17, 2025
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🎟️ Reserve your spot today: shorturl.at/nl3Ur
#Body #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Research

new pre-print led by @vittrebicky.bsky.social in which we highlight the importance of methods reporting for photographic stimuli.
👇see 🧵

Input device matters for measures of behaviour in online experiments - Psychological Research Studies of perception, cognition, and action increasingly rely on measures derived from the movements of a cursor to investigate how psychological processes unfold over time. This method is one of the...

Now published: doi.org/10.1007/s004...

We demonstrate that cursor movements differ depending on the input device used in online experiments. Given that cursor movements are increasingly used to investigate ongoing perceptual, cognitive, and motoric processes, it is an important variable to consider

When you are using matlab and you want to get the square root of the result of the most recent command line operation.

Apply Now for PhD Studentships 2025 We are recruiting 2-4 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales…

Apply now for fully funded #PhD studentships at the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK) #PsychSciSky #cogpscy #PhDSky #memory #neuroskyence #Psychology placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

if I just started following you, then probably because I found you through this cool tool:

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

When I will respond to your email

IN PRESS:
Discovering Statistics Using JASP

I don’t see why people get worked up about academic publishing. It’s easy. You just publish in a journal that’s not-for-profit, open access, free to publish, and highly respected in and out of your field because it only publishes high quality papers. With fully transparent but double blind review… 🧵

Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces Nature Communications - Macaque face cells respond to objects humans perceive as illusory faces, yet the specific features that drive these responses remain unclear. Here, the authors show face...

Face cells in monkeys which respond to illusory faces (known as face pareidolia) show selectivity is driven primarily by the pareidolia "eyes" - and doesn't correlate with human 'faceness' ratings OR face-like configuration! Fab work led by
@amrahs-inolas.bsky.social 👏
rdcu.be/d0JbD #Neuroskyence