AND 🗣️ new paper out in JADD: "Centrality of touch avoidance in social touch experiences in autism". In collaboration with the @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social.

👉 rdcu.be/eH3H5

The second of the series aimed at elucidating how autistic adults perceive social touch.

👀 Interacting or non-interacting: that is the research question...

📢 New pre-print out on social interaction perception in preverbal infants: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In collaboration with @Emilie Serraille, @jrhochmann.bsky.social and @ljubapi.bsky.social.

🧵 An animated thread 👇

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‼️ Preprint alert ‼️
Led by master's student Macy, with collaboration from @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social and @mmellon.bsky.social.

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

1. Autistic adults engage in social touch as frequently as non-autistic adults, with similar satisfaction.

You wouldn’t drink from a glass if a fish is IN the glass, or would not grab a chair if one is already sitting ON it.
How do we represent relations between things? And how does it relate to object and action recognition?
New paper out osf.io/preprints/ps...
@mmellon.bsky.social

I am honoured to have received the Doctoral Thesis Award from La Sapienza University, accompanied by the publication of my thesis by Sapienza Università Editrice, available in open access here: doi.org/10.13133/978...

Well hello Bluesky. For my first (proper) post, here's my take on the IIT brouhaha and some of the wider issues involved, out now in Nautilus. It's called The Worth of Wild Ideas (and The Right To Be Wrong). nautil.us/the-worth-of...

Are you an early career affective scientist (broadly defined)? Be sure to check out our discord channel! Our aim is to create a supportive community where we share research, resources, jobs (academic and others), etc. We have 150+ members and growing -- join us! #AffectSci

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Check out our latest preprint on Research Square: "The neuroscience of human empathy for pleasure: Protocol for a scoping review"

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2...

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Today's read:

"Within-participant statistics for cognitive science" by Ince et al., 2022.

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Today's read:

"Living on the edge: network neuroscience beyond nodes" by Betzel et al., 2023.

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If you are new here, don't miss the #neuroscience channel! We're one of the largest science channels on blue sky - lots of fun content and people there. Tags are #neuroscience and #neuroskyence. bsky.app/profile/did:...

New challenge: A daily read, for at least one month, of a Neuroscience article not necessarily related to my field of research. (Clearly, to sum to those I "need" to read 😂.)

Today's: "The socio-temporal brain: connecting people in time" by Schirmer et al., 2016.

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The MIT Press announces the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, a paradigm shift in open access reference works #Neuroscience #Psycholinguistics #Psychology

What is, in your opinion, the best (contemporary) book giving an overarching view of brain functioning relating to complex behavior?

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