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Actions obey Weber's law when precision is evaluated at goal attainment biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci

ZU psych department is hiring assistant/associate profs apply.interfolio.com/142353 good opportunities to set up new labs and contribute to the university research. Pm me if you want to know more

New article in the Art and Vision Science Issue bit.ly/3EKr6Gs by Jeroen Stumpel, Robert Volcic @NYUAbuDhabi & Maarten Wijntjes @tudelft describes Testing the perception of depth in images with linear, sharp, or blurred contours. doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.4.12

Opposable Thumbs... The human hand as an extraordinary tool! Courtney Kessel @courtneykesselar, Metal Pliers, 2011.

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Obsidian Importer now helps you easily convert your Apple Notes data to portable files that you can use with any Markdown app. Supports tables, images, drawings, scans, PDFs, and links introduced in iOS 17. Three months ago, we introduced Importer as an open-source project. Thanks to contributions from the Obsidian community, Importer supports converting your data from Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Bear, Roam Research, HTML files, and more. The latest version of Importer tackles the most challenging format to date: Apple Notes. Unfortunately, Apple Notes is one of the few note-taking apps that does not have a built-in export feature. Because Apple Notes uses a proprietary format, it makes data complicated to migrate, and nearly impossible to use in conjunction with other tools. Apple Notes supports content such as tables, images, drawings, scans, and PDFs. As of iOS 17 it also supports links between notes. This breadth of content makes the conversion process more challenging. Here’s the good news: all of these content types can now be extracted using Obsidian Importer. So, how does it work? Apple Notes stores your data in a local SQLite database. This data is in an undocumented format, but it’s possible to decode how it is stored and convert it. Decoding the Protocol Buffers stored in the Apple Notes database was made possible by the work of Jon Baumann from Ciofeca Forensics and its adaptation for Obsidian by Mir Novov. Whether you’re planning to migrate away from Apple Notes or just want to back up your data, the new Obsidian Importer gives you the freedom to easily convert your Apple Notes to portable, durable files.

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Team USA had a slammin' practice in NYU Abu Dhabi last night 😍 @nba @usabasketball @nyuabudhabi

The below article on Weber’s law in grasping movements is now published in Cognition. Open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

I am pleased to share our review paper on serial dependence. I sincerely hope it will aid future research in this century-old field that still has many unanswered questions. doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.1.9

We are hiring 3 new assistant professors in human movement sciences. We are searching for a combination of candidates that provides the most added expertise to the complete spectrum of the department. Retweet to spread the word. More info here: workingat.vu.nl/ad/assistant…

The next International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2023) will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on June 27-30 / 2023. Brussels is a vibrant city in the heart of Europe, we are looking forward to hosting you for amazing science and fun!

Can we use a tool as a sensory device to aid vision for bimanual object manipulations? Is holding the object with the tool equivalent to holding it with the hand? With @VolcicR, and Alessandro Farnè, we tried to answer this question here biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…, and we found that

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Kriti Bhatia, Christian Löwenkamp & Volker H. Franz @TueNeuroCampus show in contrast to previous findings that grasping follows Weber's law by taking into account nonlinearities in the scaling of the grasping response. doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.12.13

Asked DALL-E to generate an image showing “fMRI of salmon brain activity”. Totally nailed it! #AI #brain #fMRI #dalle #dalle2 #AIart #art #visualart #neuroimaging #neuroscience #artificialintelligence