@JBJSmeets

Investigating the sensory basis of motor control @VU_FBW.

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In our new review, we discuss how aiming for the best answers leads to inconsistent perception: doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.1… In this digest, I will present some examples. The first is that the Brentano illusion affects the length (green) of a line, but not the endpoints (blue) (1/5)
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OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions

Participants performed two perceptual discrimination tasks in which we manipulated the motor costs of the two response options by varying the distance to the response buttons. We found a bias...

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OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions

Participants performed two perceptual discrimination tasks in which we manipulated the motor costs of the two response options by varying the distance to the response buttons. We found a bias...

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VU FBW@VU_FBW24 Sep 2024
#VU_BW is excited to welcome Florentina Hettinga as our new department head by October first. At the same time, we'd like to thank departing department head @DieenJaap for his leadership and curiosity
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✨ 📽 Imagine you're a professional football player. You dribble, kick, and score. But how does that work in your brain? @pmedendorp and Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes provide you an unique look at the Sensorimotor lab in this video: 👉 ru.nl/en/donders-institute/n…
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Moira@LeeuwenMoira18 Sep 2024
Happy :) to be a co-author with @ninavanmastrigt, @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets and Bernadette van Wijk. Many, many circles & inspiration from all authors led to this paper on reward-based motor learning! preprints.org/manuscript/202… Poetic summary by Nina&me in the thread! #one_tweet_a_day
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VU FBW@VU_FBW28 Aug 2024
#VU_BW @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets, Joyce Burgers en een fantastische groep studenten onderzochten in @NEMOamsterdam hoe succeskansen motorisch leren en #motivatie beïnvloeden. Kijk de video om te zien hoe dat ging! youtu.be/KK9H-qQFIrA?si=9c5A…
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Stan van Pelt@stanvanpelt14 Aug 2024
Door onnadenkendheid is wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid soms niet meer dan schijnprecisie. Originele studie van @JBJSmeets over hoe leeftijd van proefpersonen systematisch een half jaar te kort gerapporteerd wordt. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The responses to this tweet made it to the scientific literature in my paper on the bias and precision of reporting the average age (doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.202…).
Jeroen Smeets@JBJSmeets4 Apr 2024
Please retweet! A question for those who have human participants in their research. How do you determine the age of your participants (with which resolution)?
60%Ask their age (years)
22%Use birth date (years)
17%Use birth date (days)
1%Other
72 votes • Final results
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If we apply the most popular method to the average age of a youth soccer team, we get a result (red) that differs from the actual mean (blue):
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Scientists have a peculiar way to report the average age of their human participants. They suggest they know this average with a few days precision, but introduce a half year bias. Read about it in my short paper doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.202… Thanks to all of you who answered my poll.
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Mooi stuk over @AJCReuten haar promotie onderzoek van de afgelopen 4 jaar
Anna Reuten@AJCReuten29 Jun 2024
Voor NRC mocht ik voor “Jong Geleerd” een interview geven over mijn proefschrift (doi: 10.5463/thesis.619). Waarom worden meer mensen wagenziek in zelfrijdende auto’s? En is er een manier om dat op te lossen?! Antwoorden op die vragen lees je hierin terug: nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06/27/om-…

Om wagenziekte te onderzoeken moest Anna Reuten haar proefpersonen ‘goed misselijk krijgen’

Jong geleerd: Passagiers lijden vaker aan wagenziekte dan bestuurders. In zelfrijdende auto’s zal dit probleem dan ook vaker voorkomen. Anna Reuten onderzocht of wat er aan te doen is.

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Hofstadter on what Goedel, Escher, Bach was actually about:
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🔔🔔🔔 Triton heeft Varsity gewonnen! Daarom speel ik om 21.00 uur Tritonlied op de carillon van de #Domtoren #Utrecht! 🔔🔔🔔Varsity: winst voor vrouwen van Orca en mannen van Triton rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3719353… #rtvutrecht

Varsity: winst voor vrouwen van Orca en mannen van Triton

Het hoofdnummer van de beroemde Varsity was vanmiddag een prooi voor twee Utrechtse roeiverenigingen. Bij de vrouwen won Orca en bij de mannen Triton.

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Please retweet! A question for those who have human participants in their research. How do you determine the age of your participants (with which resolution)?
60%Ask their age (years)
22%Use birth date (years)
17%Use birth date (days)
1%Other
72 votes • Final results
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This is an elegant experiment using a new task (grasping thin objects using a precision grip) to find out how grasping is controlled. The answer: "the digits-in-space hypothesis provides the most plausible account of the data". Worth reading!
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We are so very proud of Hunter for landing this incredibly challenging and thought provoking study!!! Bottom line: there is a whole new life beyond biomimetics that we should be excited to explore...
Hunter Schone@HunterSchone18 Mar 2024
Now out in @NatureHumBehav We show that people can learn to control bionic hands just as effectively and in some ways better, using unnatural control strategies compared to strategies that mimic natural limb control. nature.com/articles/s41562-0… @plasticity_lab @Chris_I_Baker
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In de krant lees je veel over de taalbeheersing van studenten. Als docent kom je pareltjes tegen. Een 1e jaars bachelor student schrijft “… wordt het onderwerp gevraagd te kiezen welke stimulus...”. Dat klinkt onbegrijpelijk, maar vertalen naar het Engels werkt verhelderend….
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Opher Donchin@opherdonchin6 Feb 2024
Slivers of sanity mean so much these days. This was a pleasure to read.
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A co-taught course called The Politics of Israel and Palestine serves as a miniature academic peace process, suggesting how a university might organize for difficult subjects. nyer.cm/RY18UKS

Co-Teaching a Class on Israel and Palestine

A miniature academic peace process suggests how a university might organize for difficult subjects—and what, after all, universities are.

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