@PreparedLab

@preparedmindslab.bsky.social ... Studying the interface between spontaneous and learned behaviours in animal models, humans and artificial intelligence.

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preparedmindslab.org/
Joined September 2021
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Today we delivered an engaging workshop on fruit fly behaviour at @QM_Psych @QM_SBBS , where undergraduate students ran their first independent experiment, choosing setting and variables… 🧵
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QMUL Psychology@QM_Psych24 Oct 2024
Congratulations to @lauracrucianel1 for the publication of her first book!
Laura Crucianelli@lauracrucianel123 Oct 2024
Sono entusiasta di annunciare la pubblicazione del mio primo libro 📚 Perfetto per chi vuole esplorare il tatto, il nostro primo senso ed il più sottovalutato🫳🤌🤝Disponibile dal 12 novembre! @UtetLibri #Tatto #LetturaScientifica #Neuroscienze #Psicologia amzn.eu/d/0Tygn9Y
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Sono entusiasta di annunciare la pubblicazione del mio primo libro 📚 Perfetto per chi vuole esplorare il tatto, il nostro primo senso ed il più sottovalutato🫳🤌🤝Disponibile dal 12 novembre! @UtetLibri #Tatto #LetturaScientifica #Neuroscienze #Psicologia amzn.eu/d/0Tygn9Y
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Our new paper on a potentially pain-linked behaviour in insects is out! Bees seemingly ‘rub it better’ like we do: (1/7)
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Jonathan Birch@birchlse17 Jul 2024
Bees selectively grooming the antenna touched with a heat probe - @matilda_gibbons's latest important study challenging the idea that bees do not feel pain. cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…

Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees

Zoology; Entomology; Neuroscience.

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Cool work on chicks 😎 Best job on priors ever !
elisabetta versace@eli_versace16 Jun 2024
Why do animals start life with priors/predispositions? We showed that priors enhance learning and generalisation: check our new, colourful work cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S… by @Shuge_Wang @VeraVasas @Lauravfreeland #Osorio @eli_versace 🧵 @CellPressNews collab @QM_SBBS @SussexUni
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1/3 New paper out in @GenomeBiology featuring our #PhD alumni @ShengKaiHsu, @WeiYunLai1, @merianelion and former @PopGenVienna #postdoc @eli_versace rdcu.be/dJh3S Here's what they found:
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Chicks at @ConversationUK “ How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses” theconversation.com/how-newb… from/ @PreparedLab

How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses

Philosophers have been debating whether we need conditioning to link information from different senses for centuries.

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First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux's problem: ow.ly/itSE50Rg32J. From @eli_versace @preparedLab, in #BiologyLetters #animalbehaviour #crossmodal #cognition
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Kevin Mitchell@WiringTheBrain20 Apr 2024
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@eli_versace talking about “Soft Ideas”…
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Research at @QMUL cracked a centuries-old question: can those born blind instantly recognize objects after gaining vision? Newborn chicks instantly recognized objects that they’d only experienced by touch. @eli_versace @Lauravfreeland @RSocPublishing: bit.ly/3vFYGey
Four chicks. Adobe stock

ALT Four chicks. Adobe stock

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a few months ago, we discovered Crossmodal association between visual and acoustic cues in tortoises youtu.be/eLqydGEIXN8?si=Cv_o… @maria_loconsole @GionataStancher @Museo_Rovereto @QM_SBBS royalsocietypublishing.org/d… --> @PreparedLab
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Jonathan Birch@birchlse20 Jan 2024
Some say insects clearly don't feel pain because they don't tend injuries. But new evidence from @matilda_gibbons, @evaroseread, @AndrewCrump94, @chittka and team suggests this is wrong. Bees selectively groom the antenna touched by a heat probe. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behaviour in bumblebees

Self-grooming directed towards a noxiously-stimulated body part is one indicator that an animal may feel pain. In insects, the lack of evidence for such behaviour has been widely argued to reflect...

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When @eli_versace starts at the beginning, she really means the beginning! Has evolution prepared animals to have expectations about gravity? Looks like chicks do🐥 #ASABwinter2023
A slide of the earth reading terrestrial gravity has canalized evolution of all species

ALT A slide of the earth reading terrestrial gravity has canalized evolution of all species

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#robots #animalWelfare #farming #chickens #chicks #roboticsRobotics for poultry farming: challenges and opportunities arxiv.org/abs/2311.05069 @ugur73831868, @ZhengQi_, #LorenzoJamone @eli_versace @preparedlab @ARQ_QMUL
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Out today in Proc B @RSocPublishing: "Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees". We combined automated behavioral and thermal tracking to understand why small bee colonies are more sensitive to stress royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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our new discovery on #Crossmodal tortoises 🐢🐢 royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @RSocPublishing #BiologyLetters Reptiles know that: low pitch ➡️ big size; high pitch ➡️ small size summary youtu.be/eLqydGEIXN8 by @maria_loconsole @GionataStancher @QM_SBBS @Museo_Rovereto @prep
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check our new pre-print on the interface between priors (predispositions), learning and generalisation: Spontaneous biases enhance generalisation in the neonate brain biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @PreparedLab #Wang @VeraVasas @Lauravfreeland #Osorio @eli_versace 🐣🔴🔵🟢🟡 🐣🐤

Spontaneous biases enhance generalisation in the neonate brain

The ability to use sparse evidence to produce adaptive responses in new contexts and to new stimuli (inductive generalisation) is central to biological and artificial intelligence. Young and inexpe...

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Replying to @QMUL
@QMUL #festivalofcommunities waiting for you
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