Jason Friedman
@curiousjason.com
Associate professor at Tel Aviv University, researching motor control and motor learning
First citation in a Science Vs podcast @sciencevs.bsky.social The topic was telepathy - our paper showed how people can hold a pendulum and "think" it to start moving. We showed using motion capture that small movements at the right frequency cause the movement www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Moving objects by imagination? Amount of finger movement and pendulum length determine success in the Chevreul pendulum illusion
Hand-held pendulums can seemingly oscillate on their own, without perceived conscious control. This illusion, named after Chevreul, is likely a result…
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April 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
First citation in a Science Vs podcast @sciencevs.bsky.social The topic was telepathy - our paper showed how people can hold a pendulum and "think" it to start moving. We showed using motion capture that small movements at the right frequency cause the movement www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new conference proceedings paper is out with colleagues from Australia using neural networks to simulate motor tasks using networks trained to have hemispheric specialization. The model comparisons suggest that this strategy can take advantage of each hemisphere's strengths doi.org/10.1007/978-...
March 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A new conference proceedings paper is out with colleagues from Australia using neural networks to simulate motor tasks using networks trained to have hemispheric specialization. The model comparisons suggest that this strategy can take advantage of each hemisphere's strengths doi.org/10.1007/978-...
We published a new paper showing that people with Parkinson's disease produce more submovements than controls. In contrast to previous experiments, we used a tracking task so all participants would move at the same speed and for the same duration. jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
March 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We published a new paper showing that people with Parkinson's disease produce more submovements than controls. In contrast to previous experiments, we used a tracking task so all participants would move at the same speed and for the same duration. jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Why is it hard for us to make slow and smooth movements? One possibility is that we don't make them very often in day-to-day life. We tested this by training people over 10 days (did not help much) and also tested slow-movement experts (Tai Chi practitioners) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A slow limit: Extensive motor training can not overcome a limit on the production of slow and smooth motion | Journal of Neurophysiology
Previous research from several paradigms indicated that people have difficulty in producing slow and smooth movements (SSM). It is not clear whether these difficulties are due to biomechanical constra...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Why is it hard for us to make slow and smooth movements? One possibility is that we don't make them very often in day-to-day life. We tested this by training people over 10 days (did not help much) and also tested slow-movement experts (Tai Chi practitioners) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...