Lucy Dowdall
@lucydowdall.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Student 🧠 | Plasticity Lab, University of Cambridge 🦾 | sensory feedback, sensorimotor learning, and neurotech | she/her
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Markerless tracking shouldn’t feel like a coding project!
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Markerless tracking shouldn’t feel like a coding project!
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
Reposted by Lucy Dowdall
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology
actcompthink.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Excited to see this collaborative work out! A representation of a robotic limb that’s both effector- and controller-independent? We take a deep dive into motor learning generalisation with the Third Thumb. Congrats @mariamolinasan.bsky.social!
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Excited to see this collaborative work out! A representation of a robotic limb that’s both effector- and controller-independent? We take a deep dive into motor learning generalisation with the Third Thumb. Congrats @mariamolinasan.bsky.social!
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Lucy Dowdall
Our PhD students @maggieszymanska.bsky.social and Julien Russ ready to present their posters today at #BRNet2025! Find them in the poster room at 2pm, talking about phantom limb pain and using EMG to control the Third Thumb 🧠
July 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Our PhD students @maggieszymanska.bsky.social and Julien Russ ready to present their posters today at #BRNet2025! Find them in the poster room at 2pm, talking about phantom limb pain and using EMG to control the Third Thumb 🧠
Catching up with the community at UK Sensorimotor is always a highlight of the year! Thanks for having us @uksensorimotor25.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk !
June 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Catching up with the community at UK Sensorimotor is always a highlight of the year! Thanks for having us @uksensorimotor25.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk !
Excited to share our new interdisciplinary work exploring the sensory representation of an artificial body part, combing datasets and methodologies to explore sensorimotor integration of the Third Thumb, a 2 DoF hand augmentation device (@daniclode.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Excited to share our new interdisciplinary work exploring the sensory representation of an artificial body part, combing datasets and methodologies to explore sensorimotor integration of the Third Thumb, a 2 DoF hand augmentation device (@daniclode.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246
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Neurotech is rapidly evolving, but user-centred technologies can only succeed if their development actively involves the end user. We’ve published a basic roadmap for supporting inclusive design testing - highlighting key strategies, stakeholders, representation, and measurable outcomes rb.gy/ng1jus
January 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Neurotech is rapidly evolving, but user-centred technologies can only succeed if their development actively involves the end user. We’ve published a basic roadmap for supporting inclusive design testing - highlighting key strategies, stakeholders, representation, and measurable outcomes rb.gy/ng1jus
New essential reading for anybody working in sensory feedback!
Very proud to share a new review (more like a long perspective), just out in Science Advances: rebrand.ly/mdbi8q8. Ilana Nisky and Tamar @cambridgeuni.bsky.social joined heads (brains) to reimagine how to make the most out of artificial haptic interfaces. A thread (1/8)
A neurocognitive pathway for engineering artificial touch
Neurocognitive congruence is key to designing artificial touch that best integrates with human perception and action.
rebrand.ly
December 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
New essential reading for anybody working in sensory feedback!
Reposted by Lucy Dowdall
Now you’ve met the lab, come work with us! We’re hiring a Research Assistant to join the Plasticity lab 🦾 in early 2025 at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Find out more information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49393/. Closing date 8th of January! 🧠
December 10, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Now you’ve met the lab, come work with us! We’re hiring a Research Assistant to join the Plasticity lab 🦾 in early 2025 at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Find out more information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49393/. Closing date 8th of January! 🧠
Reposted by Lucy Dowdall
We’re thrilled to share our new research article, "Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping on bioRxiv: rebrand.ly/qbz6nal with @dorothycowie.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 4:47 PM
We’re thrilled to share our new research article, "Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping on bioRxiv: rebrand.ly/qbz6nal with @dorothycowie.bsky.social
Come meet our lab and find out about our work!
I’m Tamar Makin, leader of the Plasticity Lab @CBU. As an intro to Bluesky, I asked my team to choose their favourite lab paper. My pick sums up a decade of the lab’s work: John Krakauer @JHU & I argue that one brain area can’t simply take over another, challenging remapping claims: rb.gy/n4dr03
November 25, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Come meet our lab and find out about our work!