Jolande Fooken
@ookenfooken.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at TU Darmstadt. Lived a previous life in Vancouver and Kingston, Canada 🍁
Vision Science | Eye Movements | Motor Control | Eye-hand coordination
Vision Science | Eye Movements | Motor Control | Eye-hand coordination
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S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
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I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
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Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
August 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
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🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke.
Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
About SIGHT Trial
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke.
Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
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Reasonable Artificial Intelligence und The Adaptive Mind: Die TU Darmstadt wird im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder mit gleich zwei geförderten Clusterprojekten ausgezeichnet. Ein Meilenstein für unsere Universität! www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
Zwei Exzellenzcluster für die TU Darmstadt
Großer Erfolg für die Technische Universität Darmstadt: Zwei ihrer Forschungsprojekte werden künftig als Exzellenzcluster gefördert. Die Exzellenzkommission im Wettbewerb der prestigeträchtigen Exzell...
www.tu-darmstadt.de
May 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reasonable Artificial Intelligence und The Adaptive Mind: Die TU Darmstadt wird im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder mit gleich zwei geförderten Clusterprojekten ausgezeichnet. Ein Meilenstein für unsere Universität! www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
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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
May 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
registration | IICCSSS
International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School
www.iiccsss.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
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Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...
May 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...
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Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
November 18, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
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Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
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🐥 #ECVP early-bird registration ends this Sunday, April 6 🦜
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Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
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Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
Submissions – 47th ECVP 2025 Mainz
ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🐥 #ECVP early-bird registration ends this Sunday, April 6 🦜
********************* heads up **************************
Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
********************* heads up **************************
Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
EyeRepost
We’re thrilled to announce that 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬, an innovative app from the School of Psychology (PI: Stephanie Rossit) designed to improve attention in brain injury survivors, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 category at the 𝐔𝐄𝐀 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!
March 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
EyeRepost
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Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
March 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
My great collaborators and I published a project on rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 AM
My great collaborators and I published a project on rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
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Happy to announce!
Come join us for a great meeting!
Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-)
#neuroscience #philosophy
Come join us for a great meeting!
Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-)
#neuroscience #philosophy
November 13, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Happy to announce!
Come join us for a great meeting!
Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-)
#neuroscience #philosophy
Come join us for a great meeting!
Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-)
#neuroscience #philosophy
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If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control.
New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 13, 2024 at 3:08 PM
If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control.
New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Finished reading „The Dispossessed“ by Ursula Le Guin.
Such a deep book.
“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
Such a deep book.
“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
April 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Finished reading „The Dispossessed“ by Ursula Le Guin.
Such a deep book.
“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
Such a deep book.
“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
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I am recruiting two PhD students to work on proprioception in an FWO funded project:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sensorimotor
Spread the word
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sensorimotor
Spread the word
April 11, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I am recruiting two PhD students to work on proprioception in an FWO funded project:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sensorimotor
Spread the word
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sensorimotor
Spread the word
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In case this is helpful to anyone, I shared this data quality indicator list on OSF: osf.io/t8upr
If you are looking for a standardized data cleaning checklist for creating quality data, I've also provided one example here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...
If you are looking for a standardized data cleaning checklist for creating quality data, I've also provided one example here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...
Yesterday I reviewed ~30 open datasets and there was a spectrum of quality. While I don't believe all data need to be identically formatted, I do think data should meet these standards and include thorough documentation (e.g., a data dictionary and project summary) to improve reusability.
March 28, 2024 at 1:04 PM
In case this is helpful to anyone, I shared this data quality indicator list on OSF: osf.io/t8upr
If you are looking for a standardized data cleaning checklist for creating quality data, I've also provided one example here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...
If you are looking for a standardized data cleaning checklist for creating quality data, I've also provided one example here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...
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New column by me in Science: "Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence
The term “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) has become ubiquitous in current discourse around AI. OpenAI states that its mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of...
www.science.org
March 21, 2024 at 6:50 PM
New column by me in Science: "Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨It's finally out!! 🤩
In Nature Climate Change, we present a highly ambitious vision for how to realize the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation 🌍
I hope you'll like it!
#BehSci #ClimateChange #BehSciSky #GreenSky #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In Nature Climate Change, we present a highly ambitious vision for how to realize the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation 🌍
I hope you'll like it!
#BehSci #ClimateChange #BehSciSky #GreenSky #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation - Nature Climate Change
Behavioural science offers valuable insights for mitigating climate change, but existing work focuses mostly on consumption and lacks coordination across disciplines. In this Perspective, the authors ...
www.nature.com
March 15, 2024 at 11:31 AM
🚨It's finally out!! 🤩
In Nature Climate Change, we present a highly ambitious vision for how to realize the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation 🌍
I hope you'll like it!
#BehSci #ClimateChange #BehSciSky #GreenSky #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In Nature Climate Change, we present a highly ambitious vision for how to realize the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation 🌍
I hope you'll like it!
#BehSci #ClimateChange #BehSciSky #GreenSky #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brain and mind researchers of all types: I hope you'll join this conversation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (August 6-9, Boston).
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
THE GRAND PLAN | Nicole Rust
www.nicolerust.com
March 8, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Brain and mind researchers of all types: I hope you'll join this conversation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (August 6-9, Boston).
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
Highly recommend 10/10
I wish I could go again 👀
I wish I could go again 👀
The “Visual Neuroscience” European Summer School in Rauischholzhausen is open to applications.
Often copied, never equalled.
Deadline: 17 March 2024
#visionscience
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/inde...
Often copied, never equalled.
Deadline: 17 March 2024
#visionscience
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/inde...
Summer School Visual Neuroscience Rauischholzhausen 2024
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de
March 8, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Highly recommend 10/10
I wish I could go again 👀
I wish I could go again 👀
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How many people do you need to scan to get robust estimates for multivariate methods such as CCA and PLS?
The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now)
Helmer et al. Commun Biol
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now)
Helmer et al. Commun Biol
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
February 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
How many people do you need to scan to get robust estimates for multivariate methods such as CCA and PLS?
The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now)
Helmer et al. Commun Biol
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now)
Helmer et al. Commun Biol
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s42...