CODELAB @Leiden
codelab.bsky.social
CODELAB @Leiden
@codelab.bsky.social
Understanding the brain, one smartphone touch at a time. Newest smartphone research from the oldest university in The Netherlands. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/social-and-behavioural-sciences/psychology/codelab
A quick refresher on the floating arm: www.science.org/content/arti...
The science of the floating arm trick
Understanding Kohnstamm phenomenon could help researchers treat some neurological disorders
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The app developed by Enea not only became a main tool to gather data in our lab for the next decade (!) it was also the beginning of www.quantactions.com . Enea is its CTO!
QuantActions | Home
Personalised Care, powered by real-time data. Integrate our health metrics via our SDK to turn your app into a personalised health companion. Customise content and care for each user, based on their r...
www.quantactions.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our explorations indicated a link between the sensorimotor process captured in the lab and smartphone interaction intervals captured on the phone, the link was time-variant! Smartphone interactions gathered about 10 days prior to the lab visit were most strongly linked!
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Some ideas we expressed in this #Wired piece are still in works in our current laboratory at @unileiden.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/touchs...
Our brains are being 'continuously reshaped' by smartphone use
Extensive use of smartphone touchscreens is changing the sensory relationship between our brains and our thumbs, a study published in Current Biology has revealed
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Smartphone users have an enhanced thumb sensory representation in the brain

The brain activity is proportional to use accumulated over the previous 10 days

An episode of intense use is transiently imprinted on the sensory representation
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM