Thrilled to have this preprint out, from the amazing Zekun Sun!
"Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns"
In brief, across 8 experiments we found evidence of a causal role for abstract representations in motor learning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Recently, (recommended) prices at @joinprolific.bsky.social have doubled. Simultaneously, data quality and collection speed seem to have gone down noticeably (especially speed). Are others having this experience?
These changes make the platform significantly less viable for our lab.
Memorability as an Emergent Property: How Representational Structure Creates Apparent Intrinsic Effects osf.io/preprints/ps...
Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains?
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
There are many reasons I'm excited about this project. One is just the sheer amount of data involved. There are 13 different experiments included here -- a lab record! -- including several unique paradigms and data from adults and children.
Sadly I will not be at VSS this year, but here's what our lab is up to!
(In solidarity with many VSS attendees, however, I may be foregoing many hours of sleep -- not for long walks on the beach but due to the anticipated arrival of a second child any day now...)
New preprint led by awesome undergrad Abby Bonno! By probing temporal memory for individual items in a sequence, we uncover a 'representational space' of memories that reflects the structure of encoded experiences and provides insight into how different kinds of structure shape memory. osf.io/t5kyx
After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr
A few years ago, my favorite website (@puddingviz.bsky.social) put out this great piece analyzing a study of how randomizing ability changes with age. It includes demos where readers produce sequences of random coin flips, dice rolls, and locations in a 3x3 grid. pudding.cool/2022/04/rand...
We plan to hire a post doc to start in Fall 2026 (flexible), in the Aulet Lab at UMass Amherst, funded for two years. The postdoc will help establish our developmental fMRI research program studying symbolic number acquisition in 4-8 year old children (among other things!).