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Emily A-Izzeddin @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social · 17d

Just published some work at Scientific Reports! We investigated visual adaptation following free viewing of a film (Casablanca) that had its oriented contrast altered. To our surprise, we found adaptation effects to be pretty negligible…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · 18d

It’s a nice tactile addition to the well-known “pip-and-pop” phenomenon, extending it into more complex human-robot interaction environments.

Many thanks to @boracelebi.bsky.social, Julian Kaduk, @swarmdynamics.bsky.social, @kdrewing.bsky.social

Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · 18d

Key findings:

- Even though the cues don’t say where, they help people find targets faster in visual scenes.

- The signals improve target identification in addition to helping with search.

Take home message: Brain seems to use brief alerting tactile signals to boost visual processing.

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · 18d

🎉 Check out our new paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies!

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work highlights the interdisciplinary efforts of the ChronoPilot project and our fruitful collaboration with partners from Konstanz. @haplab.bsky.social

Brief non-spatial signals facilitate visual search and temporal sensitivity in robot supervision

The human role in human-swarm interaction (HSI) shifts from controller to supervisor, as robots become more autonomous and require efficient search st…

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · Aug 12

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

A review of the costs of eye movements

Nature Reviews Psychology - Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make. In this Review, Schütz and Stewart integrate evidence regarding the costs of eye movements and...

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Aug 12

A review of the costs of eye movements

Review by Alexander C. Schütz & Emma E. M. Stewart

go.nature.com/4oxXRuQ

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amna-malik.bsky.social @amna-malik.bsky.social · Jul 26

Excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc, with
@YingYu @huBoyaci @KatjaDoerschner

Using dynamic line drawings, we show that contour motion alone can provide sufficient information for material perception.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Perceiving Material Qualities from Moving Contours

While research on the perception of line drawings has long demonstrated the importance of contours in object recognition, recent work shows that contours can also convey material properties. For examp...

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memcmanus.bsky.social @memcmanus.bsky.social · Jul 23

What's the relationship between our feeling of motion (vection) and our perception of motion (distance traveled)? Are they related? Find out in our latest paper! @royalsociety.org doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · Jul 18

@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie

Homepage

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happy to present this work tomorrow at World Haptics in Applied Perception session between 13:30-15:00 (Convention Hall 1). 👋🏽⏳ Hope to see you there! @haplab.bsky.social @kdrewing.bsky.social

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 4

Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more.

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Ivan Camponogara @ivancamp.bsky.social · Jul 4

Are actions toward auditory targets different from those toward proprioceptive targets? You can check it out in this preprint from the newly enstablished HAKi Lab, leveraging @deeplabcut.bsky.social for pose estimation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Research #Auditory #Proprioception #movement

The Contribution of Audition and Proprioception in Unisensory and Multisensory Target Reaching

Everyday actions often involve reaching for targets sensed by auditory and proprioceptive senses (reaching a ringing smartphone in the dark or tapping on it while holding it with the other hand). Howe...

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Free access: zenodo.org/records/1572...

Touched by vibrations: Intensity modulates valence and arousal on the torso

Previous studies have successfully elicited a wide range of emo-tional responses by stimulating the hand region. The purpose of the current study was to test whether tactile stimuli applied to the tor...

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jul 4

🗝️ Key findings:

* Lower amplitudes felt more pleasant and less arousing.
* Vibrations on the back were less arousing and more pleasant than on the front or both sides (front and back).
* The perceived intensity of vibration seems to play an important role in shaping emotional experiences.

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Can vibrations on the torso evoke emotions? We explore this question in our recent publication w/ Nedim Goktepe & @kdrewing.bsky.social.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

@haplab.bsky.social #Haptics

Touched by vibrations: Intensity modulates valence and arousal on the torso

Previous studies have successfully elicited a wide range of emotional responses by stimulating the hand region. The purpose of the current study was to test whether tactile stimuli applied to the tors...

ieeexplore.ieee.org

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Tal Seidel Malkinson @seideltal.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧠New postdoc position - come work with us in France! 🥐👩‍🔬

Two-Year Postdoc Position on the Role of Temporal Integration in Visual Attention Using Human Intracerebral Recordings | EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/351721

📆Starting Date: October 2025
⏱️Application deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jun 17

#IASAT in Jena was such a gem! Great to see so many people I met at Festival of Touch & make new connections. I'm looking forward to continuing conversations and building on these connections made. Looking forward to the next conference 🥳🫴🏽

In the meantime, let’s hug more often on Tuesdays 🫂

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jun 5

If you're attending World Haptics, join us for exciting interdisciplinary discussion! For more info follow the link 👆🏾

Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · Jun 5

Excited to share that I’m co-organizing (w/ Nedim Göktepe) Haptic Materials from Physics to Perception workshop at World Haptics 2025 in Suwon, Korea!

#WHC2025 #WorldHaptics #Haptics 👋🏽

sites.google.com/view/haptic-...

Haptic materials

Our workshop will bring and connect research from different fields to provide a more holistic understanding of haptic material perception.

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Meike Scheller @meike-scheller.bsky.social · Jun 5

So excited to be hosting three amazing methods workshops this year:

Join us if you want to learn about continuous psychophysics, EEG decoding, or causal inference modelling in multisensory research
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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jun 5

As part of this year's conference, we are excited to offer three amazing methods workshops run *by* and *for* the multisensory community: Focusing on behavioural, neural, and computational methods🕹️🧠📈

More information and the sign-up link can be found here imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 22

So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · May 22

Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Hauptgebäude der Universität Gießen im Konfettiregen

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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · May 26

New article out at Science Advances!

Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab

The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience

Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.

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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · May 25

1️⃣ Post-affective carry-over: neutral stimuli inherit temporal bias from preceding emotion
2️⃣ Low arousal → valence effect: positive > negative in perceived duration
3️⃣ High arousal → valence‐independent dilation

Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · May 25

🆕📑 New paper alert: emotions bend our internal clocks—and keep changing time even after the moment’s gone! ⏳

Free paper access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@haplab.bsky.social @kdrewing.bsky.social & Nedim Göktepe

Findings summary 👇🏽

Emotional time lengthening carries over to subsequent neutral events

The perceived time can shrink or expand for emotional stimuli. Converging evidence suggests that emotional time distortions are rooted in the emotiona…

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Guido Maiello @guidomaiello.bsky.social · May 15

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...

www.southampton.ac.uk

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