Applications open for a CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN NETWORK SCIENCE with @connectedminds.bsky.social at York University Toronto. See: www.yorku.ca/unit/vpf/wp-...
Jolande Fooken
@ookenfooken.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at TU Darmstadt. Lived a previous life in Vancouver and Kingston, Canada 🍁 Vision Science | Eye Movements | Motor Control | Eye-hand coordination
New preprint! 🎉 How can we measure how the nervous system knows, moment to moment, where the body is as it moves? We introduce a continuous tracking paradigm to measure the hidden dynamics of proprioception—revealing it is faster and more precise than vision during movement. tinyurl.com/yf297k53
Tracking the hidden dynamics of proprioception
Every movement unfolds with a simple question: Where is my body? The nervous system answers through proprioception - the sense of limb position (static position sense) and movement (dynamic propriocep...
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New preprint! What the eyes do when searching for a visual target reveals the psychological similarity between objects, just like more classic (but much longer & tedious) tasks like triplet odd-one-out and direct comparison. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... #BRAINFLOW @upcite.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
Eye movements reveal representational geometry
Mental representations are the explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences, but there is no widely accepted characterization of how they cause behavior. Visual representational geometry can be quantified by similarity scores, but almost all methods require an explicit judgment. To examine how representations cause behavior by varying task demands, observers must perform different tasks while continuously reporting similarity, leading to dual-task interference. This study develops scanpaths as an implicit similarity measure, and uses representational similarity analysis to validate it. Observers searched for a target; fixations on distractors may reveal similarity. Similarity was also quantified by an odd-one-out task in the same participants, and ratings from different participants (Jiang et al. 2022). Representational geometries between tasks correlated. A generative model predicted first fixations in novel data. This double validation of the scanpath method opens the door to examining the causality of representations by determining if and how they vary with task demands. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin!
SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · 4mo ago#JNeurosci: Findings from Fooken et al. reveal how the brain integrates knowledge of sensorimotor demands with predictions about environmental events to flexibly manage competition for gaze between action and monitoring tasks. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2157-25.2026
Interested in using more of your precious experiment time? ⌛ And giving your participants a good time? 🥳 Join us tomorrow at 8:30 am in HS7 for an exciting symposium on continuous tasks with @lilweb.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social at @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social #PUG2026!
In our new short report @rmoraes-usp.bsky.social and colleagues test whether rapid corrective responses are affected by pursuing a moving target (compared to fixation) Rapid responses to reach errors are equally strong during fixation and visual pursuit journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de) Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Very happy to see our paper "Microsaccadic modulation in goal-directed reaching" published in JoV's special issue honoring the contributions of Eileen Kowler. Thanks to @rmoraes-usp.bsky.social for co-steering the ship jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... As is tradition, a Dr. Seuss style summary
Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
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Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
S-CCS Lab PhD Position 3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ... Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work! @ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke. Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school... #SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
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Reasonable Artificial Intelligence und The Adaptive Mind: Die TU Darmstadt wird im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder mit gleich zwei geförderten Clusterprojekten ausgezeichnet. Ein Meilenstein für unsere Universität! www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
Zwei Exzellenzcluster für die TU Darmstadt
Großer Erfolg für die Technische Universität Darmstadt: Zwei ihrer Forschungsprojekte werden künftig als Exzellenzcluster gefördert. Die Exzellenzkommission im Wettbewerb der prestigeträchtigen Exzell...
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I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders
Discover more about our research project: Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders at the U...
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Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/ As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
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International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School
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Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...
Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
🐥 #ECVP early-bird registration ends this Sunday, April 6 🦜 ********************* heads up ************************** Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
Submissions – 47th ECVP 2025 Mainz
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Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
My great collaborators and I published a project on rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
Happy to announce! Come join us for a great meeting! Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-) #neuroscience #philosophy
Thank you #ECVP2024 it was a blast! Great science and lots of food for thought (and little actual food). See y‘all in Mainz 🇩🇪🎭🍷
If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control. New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024 osf.io/preprints/ps...
