For any #postdoc researchers, incl. those who have lost #funding due to recent #grant #terminations, there are 2 non-federal #fellowship competitions currently open that we here at #UW can participate in:
(1) https://www.weillneurohub.org/rfp
(2) https://www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-postdoctoral-fellowships/
Get in touch if interested in applying!
That said, when my joints are flaring, my hands may be able to make fine *motions* but not control fine motor movements with a pen or pencil.
Despite occasional bouts of promising skills sketching or doing caligraphy, most of my life, I have relied on keyboards and mice to write and draw.
I've treasured the occasional periods where I *could* write by hand, but mostly I can't.
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I need to read more about ASD and motor control. I've long struggled with clumsy hands and sudden jerky movements. I used to think it might be MS or something, before I heard that it can be an ASD thing. Same thing with not tipping over when walking.
Apologies - reposting my #introduction after I moved to neuromatch.social
I’m a cognitive neuroscientist based in Ferrara, Italy. My scientific interest is related to the #neurobehavioral mechanisms that enable the integration of #perception and #action. I seek to understand how the sensorimotor processes involved in voluntary movement execution support perceptual discrimination of biological movement and guide motor coordination among multiple individuals.
As a side note, I love books (the real, paper ones and heavy ones too!) and I'm also passionate about the #History of #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Psychology #MotorControl
Jazz musicians reveal role of expectancy in human creativity
Have you ever wondered how creativity works in the brain? It's a complex and multifaceted concept, and while we don't fully understand it yet, many believe that it involves real-time combinations of known neural and cognitive processes. One interesting model of creativity comes from musical improvisation, like in jazz music, where musicians spontaneously create novel sound sequences. Many researchers believe that creativity involves the integration and combination of known neural and cognitive processes in real-time, allowing individuals to generate novel ideas or solve problems in innovative ways.
One area that has received particular attention in the study of creativity is musical improvisation, which involves the spontaneous creation of novel musical ideas in real-time. In this study, the authors investigate whether individuals with training in musical improvisation, such as jazz musicians, might process expectations differently than individuals without this training. To test this hypothesis, they compare jazz improvisers, non-improvising musicians, and non-musicians in a domain-general task of divergent thinking (which involves generating a large number of creative ideas in response to a given prompt) and a musical task involving preference ratings for chord progressions that vary in terms of their level of expectation. While participants completed these tasks, their brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG).
The results of the study showed that jazz musicians preferred unexpected chord progressions in the musical task, and that unexpected stimuli elicited larger early and mid-latency EEG responses (ERAN and P3b) in jazz musicians, followed by smaller long-latency responses (Late Positivity Potential). These EEG responses were also significantly correlated with behavioral measures of fluency and originality on the divergent thinking task. These findings suggest that expectancy may play a role in creativity, and that individuals with training in musical improvisation may process expectations differently than those without this training.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.09.008
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We will have another new #postdoc position available in 2023. The work will focus on #sensorimotor #adaptation and the #neuroscience of #speech #MotorControl. Participants will include typical adults as well as patients with neurological conditions. Our lab is part of UW in Seattle. Feel free to contact this account or lab PI LudoMax at uw.edu for more information! #BoostPlease
Allow #myself to #introduction #myself.
I am a #basic neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where my lab studies how the brain senses and moves the body (#proprioception #motorcontrol).
I will mainly be tooting about the #research and accomplishments of the scientists in my lab, new and old #neuroscience papers that incite me, and efforts to improve the rigor and equity of science. I may slip in the occasional #snowfly pic.
I hope to use #ScienceMastodon for discovering new scientific #manna and for unexpected interactions with #Scientists and #PseudoScientists alike.
