Lecturer @StirUni ~ Brains / bodies / movement. All opinions chosen by random number generator. Mastodon: @ArranReader@scholar.social ~ #ScienceForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Happy to share a new preprint! Me and my excellent RA co-authors provide insight into how humans use a single hand to cumulatively grasp and then transport multiple objects. We’ve decided to refer to this behaviour as ‘multiple object handling’ osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8y…
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In sum, we show how people can use their hand in an incredibly flexible manner to cumulatively grasp and transport objects. This common motor skill shows how we can use a range of grips, other than finger-thumb opposition, for efficient object transport.
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We expect that the general strategy described holds true for situations using more than two objects, but this is something for a follow-up experiment. Looking forward to sharing more on this area over the coming months!
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2 Aug 2024
Looking forward to presenting our concurrent TMS-fMRI work on the role of the IPS in prioritising task-relevant visual information @AlexWoolgar @Runhao_Lu @Jade_BJackson
2 Aug 2024
With a talk on the role of the right intraparietal sulcus in driving brain-wide focus, Dr Catriona Scrivener will be joining us from @UniOfEdinburgh this September in London
Join us: shorturl.at/18Rxo
#BBI2024 #Neuroscience #NIBS
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Do you have a congenital upper limb difference? Do you rarely use a functional prosthesis/assistive device? Please RT and get in touch if you would like to to help us better understand the experiences and needs of those with a limb difference!
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Essential reading for TMS users! TMS can potentially stimulate brain areas >5cm away from the target, depending on context (shown here by stimulating regions around M1 during movement). Brings 1cm focality into question...
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'The focality of TMS is not fixed, but varies according to coil position and orientation, the shape of the participant’s brain and the context in which the brain is stimulated'
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I'm very much riding on the coattails of Nick and others who have put such hard work into this extensive project, but I'm glad to have been able to provide a (very minor) contribution - mainly ongoing discussion and picky manuscript feedback!
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14 Sep 2023
Day 4 of our strike. During the summer MAB, mgmt said it was a national dispute about which they could do nothing, and refused to call for UCEA negotiations. The current dispute is local, and could solved entirely by @StirUni alone. Will we hear from them today?
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10 Sep 2023
Tomorrow marks the start of 10 days local strike action for our branch @StirUni . We desperately do not want to strike now, but have been left with no choice after suffering over 3 months of 50% salary deductions, some of the very harshest in all of Scotland @ucu @UCUScotland
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