If you're heading to World Haptics in Suwon, check out our WIP poster, by postdoc Saito Sakaguchi, "Observation of Internal Skin Deformation in Response to Brushing".
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Date & Time: July 10 (Thu.) / 15:00~17:30
Place: Lobby, 3F
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So my best solution to this so far has been to use dictation.
A screenshot of a segment of a manuscript showing line numbers that do not line up with text.
Problem: manually typing page and line numbers when reviewing. And for some reason the line numbers NEVER line up with the actual text.
Solutions?: Should I annotate the pdf directly with comments? Copy and past the text I'm referring to?
This sucks for authors too. Why are we still doing it?
When we decided to finally get this out (thanks Kevin!), I was worried the reviewers would want us to collect more data, but luckily they didn't. They DID want us to update the analysis, so I was very pleased that I had organised the data in a sensibile way, and my old R scripts still worked!
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But he showed me how, and I did it, and it was fine. Just the first of many ways Saad has helped push my boundaries.
It was the start of a long scientific friendship. I remember when piloting experiment 2, Saad asked me to inject anaesthetic superficially in his skin. I was like "you know I studied psychology, right??"
And on a personal note, the data for this paper were collected in 2013, and I'm so happy we got this out of the file drawer, and into the light of day. Back then, I was finishing my PhD, and Saad was starting his post-doc.
It turns out the PCs can do all the heavy lifting and don't need help from the other mechanoreceptors when it comes to frequency discrimination. And we used a low frequency range, around 20Hz, challenging a common idea that this frequency is not optimal for PCs.
This forced our participants to rely on remotely transmitted vibrations, that are picked up by only a subset of mechanoreceptors, the super sensitive FA2 / Pacinian corpuscles (PCs). We found that under these conditions, people can still discriminate frequency just fine!
To investigate frequency discrimination, we used two different methods (anaesthetic or compression block) to block out "local" mechanoreceptors right at the spot where the vibration was applied.
New paper out about how the nervous system allows us to discriminate different frequencies of vibration on the skin. "Contribution of remote Pacinian corpuscles to flutter-range frequency discrimination in humans". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice one Will!
Ah, sorry for slow reply! I'm not familiar with this part of R. Did you solve it? Have you tried posting on stackoverflow?
What's the code?
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🧵 1/8 🚨 New #preprint alert! 🚨 This new study by @gershbrain.bsky.social and I is the first to directly test the predictions of our policy compression model, which describes how capacity-limited agents trade reward for simpler policies to reduce cognitive cost psyarxiv.com/rnz72
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More snow. At Linköping central station and at Valla campus, Linköping University.
Compact Graphs xkcd.com/2864
Enjoying the snow this week. ❄️☺️
I don't know if it's bad form to post screenshots from the other place on here or not, but this is just too good not to share... 🤣
Personally as a native English speaker I don't think it adds much to my writing, but I know people who say it helps them a lot. It makes sense to me, seeing as the output it produces is nicely enough written on a sentence level.
A lot of misunderstanding about what it can do. It's a language model, not an encyclopaedia. It's most useful and defensible to use it as something like a spelling or grammar checker, improving flow and readability. Can be great for ESL, dyslexic folks, etc.
I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board
We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏
Here’s a thread to introduce the team!
The brief version is going to be sth like: to compare effects you have to *assume* that sth (responses, variances, whatever) is commensurable and that may lead to any sort of effect size calculation, but the default of just standardizing almost seems designed to hide those assumptions.
If I had a list of reviewer comments to copy-paste there would probably be one requesting effect sizes in real units...
an amazon box that says "No, you can't guess what's inside by shaking me"
a figure from a paper in which people can tell what's inside boxes by shaking them, and other people can tell what the shakers are trying to learn about the contents of the box
challenge accepted
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Not sure there's anything wrong with Excel for this... But what do you find limiting with it? You could try Obsidian, it's prettier, and better at linking different kinds of content/files/formats/links in one place.
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That time of year again, apparently.
My colleague, Marko Nardini, has a postdoc vacancy for a project on the ability to learn to use new sensory signals to enhance perceptual & motor skills. Psychophysics, neuroimaging, & modelling. Fixed term for 18 months. Deadline Jan 5 2024. durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #CogSci #neuroskyence
