Jeroen Smeets

In our new review, we discuss how aiming for the best answers leads to inconsistent perception: doi.org/10.3389/fnint.… In this digest, I will present some examples. The first is that the Brentano illusion affects the length (green) of a line, but not the endpoints (blue) (1/5)

This is an elegant experiment using a new task (grasping thin objects using a precision grip) to find out how grasping is controlled. The answer: "the digits-in-space hypothesis provides the most plausible account of the data". Worth reading!

New open PhD position in my lab at the @DondersInst ! We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment. Deadline: 14 February, 2024 Link: ru.nl/en/working-at/…

OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

#VU_BW is excited to welcome Florentina Hettinga as our new department head by October first. At the same time, we'd like to thank departing department head @DieenJaap for his leadership and curiosity

✨ 📽 Imagine you're a professional football player. You dribble, kick, and score. But how does that work in your brain? @pmedendorp and Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes provide you an unique look at the Sensorimotor lab in this video: 👉 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

Happy :) to be a co-author with @ninavanmastrigt, @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets and Bernadette van Wijk. Many, many circles & inspiration from all authors led to this paper on reward-based motor learning! preprints.org/manuscript/202… Poetic summary by Nina&me in the thread! #one_tweet_a_day

#VU_BW @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets, Joyce Burgers en een fantastische groep studenten onderzochten in @NEMOamsterdam hoe succeskansen motorisch leren en #motivatie beïnvloeden. Kijk de video om te zien hoe dat ging! youtu.be/KK9H-qQFIrA?si…

Door onnadenkendheid is wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid soms niet meer dan schijnprecisie. Originele studie van @JBJSmeets over hoe leeftijd van proefpersonen systematisch een half jaar te kort gerapporteerd wordt. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Scientists have a peculiar way to report the average age of their human participants. They suggest they know this average with a few days precision, but introduce a half year bias. Read about it in my short paper doi.org/10.1016/j.actp… Thanks to all of you who answered my poll.

Mooi stuk over @AJCReuten haar promotie onderzoek van de afgelopen 4 jaar

Hofstadter on what Goedel, Escher, Bach was actually about:

🔔🔔🔔 Triton heeft Varsity gewonnen! Daarom speel ik om 21.00 uur Tritonlied op de carillon van de #Domtoren #Utrecht! 🔔🔔🔔Varsity: winst voor vrouwen van Orca en mannen van Triton rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3719353… #rtvutrecht

Please retweet! A question for those who have human participants in their research. How do you determine the age of your participants (with which resolution)?

We are so very proud of Hunter for landing this incredibly challenging and thought provoking study!!! Bottom line: there is a whole new life beyond biomimetics that we should be excited to explore...

In de krant lees je veel over de taalbeheersing van studenten. Als docent kom je pareltjes tegen. Een 1e jaars bachelor student schrijft “… wordt het onderwerp gevraagd te kiezen welke stimulus...”. Dat klinkt onbegrijpelijk, maar vertalen naar het Engels werkt verhelderend….

Slivers of sanity mean so much these days. This was a pleasure to read.

Our paper "Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation" is now published in @NatureHumBehav! Here's a thread on our 5-year journey (2019 - 2024) and findings. 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4156…