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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · 7d

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.

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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · 14d

Several prior studies have examined behavior in kitchen-like environments to gain insights into cognitive and motor function, e.g., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jocelyn Hafer @jocelynhafer.bsky.social · 15d

Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at UD is hiring a biomechanist! We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a preferred research focus in musuloskeletal modeling.
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

University of Delaware - Details - Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 15d

In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour

An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 16d

New paper!
Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience

Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking

The brain has somewhat separate cognitive resources for the left and right sides of our visual field. Despite this lateralization, we have a smooth and unified perception of our environment. This rais...

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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 21d

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

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Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

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JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 25d

The myth of optimality in human movement science

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The myth of optimality in human movement science

The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine…

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Adrian Haith @adrianhaith.bsky.social · 26d

New pre-print!

We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.

More in Eric's 🧵 👇

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VR Summit @vrsummit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our next #SpeakerSpotlight for VR Summit 2025! ✨

Featuring:
Gavin Buckingham (Univ. of Exeter)
Jason Friedman (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Jeroen Smeets (VU Amsterdam)

📅 Summit Oct 20–21 • Rotunde Bochum

Register/submit: vrs.rub.de

#VRSummit #XR #VR #HCI #Neuroscience #VRresearch #VRcademicSky

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, Aaron. Got a new student who is trying to figure it out

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Sep 3

What’s the best way to learn Psychtoolbox quickly?

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Aug 29

This suggests a previously unrecognized connection between eye movement control and postural reflexes. The findings point to potential links between visual tracking systems and the neural circuits that help maintain balance.

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Aug 29

We investigated how eye movements might influence reflexes during balance tasks. We found that when people tracked a moving object with smooth pursuit versus keeping their gaze fixed, their leg muscle reflexes were enhanced during perturbations.

Smooth pursuit eye movements contribute to long-latency reflex modulation in the lower extremity

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Kinarm @kinarm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey Kinarm users! Did you see the post about the new release, but not have the time to read it? We're happy to share a new video summary of the new features. Today Dexterit-E; tomorrow Explorer youtu.be/SjPUrbwp98Q?...

Dexterit-E 3.11 - New Features!

YouTube video by Kinarm

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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · Aug 25

Paper was recently featured in J Neuroscience; author copy through OSF.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
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With sky-less Matthias Albrecht, Markus Gruber, and Robert Peterka. Supported by AFF @uni-konstanz.de

Is It Me or the Train Moving? Humans Resolve Sensory Conflicts with a Nonlinear Feedback Mechanism in Balance Control

Humans use multiple sensory systems to estimate body orientation in space. Sensory contributions change depending on context. A predominant concept for the underlying multisensory integration (MSI) is...

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Eye and hand coarticulation during problem solving reveals hierarchically organized planning | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

During everyday activities -such as preparing a cup of coffee or traveling across cities -we often plan ahead and execute sequences of actions. Yet, how such planning unfolds when solutions must be fo...

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Jul 11

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.

But...

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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors

Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

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Rachel Hawe @rachelhawe.bsky.social · Jun 13

Looking for OTs and PTs who work in stroke rehab to complete our survey on how bilateral coordination is assessed! This will help us create clinically feasible assessment tools. Please share! redcap.link/neuRAL.BCsur...

BILATERAL COORDINATION SURVEY

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kvarady.bsky.social @kvarady.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fast Feedback Interception Test: an interview with the co-creators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwMS...

Fast Feedback Interception Test: an interview with the co-creators

YouTube video by Kinarm

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Society for the Neural Control of Movement @ncmsociety.bsky.social · Aug 6

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award!

Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.

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Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior

Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · Jul 24

Rubber arm illusion in octopus: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Rubber arm illusion in octopus

The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

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