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Prepared Minds Lab
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Exploring cognitive readiness at the interface between spontaneous and learned behaviours in animal models, humans and artificial intelligence... while enjoying the process
https://www.preparedmindslab.org/
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Humans have remote touch ‘seventh sense’ like sandpipers, research shows

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Overview of the experiment setup for tactile detection in granular media. (a) Human experiment setup, showing a participant finger…
Humans have remote touch ‘seventh sense’ like sandpipers, research shows
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Overview of the experiment setup for tactile detection in granular media. (a) Human experiment setup, showing a participant finger raking through a sand-filled box with an LED strip guiding the trajectory and buried cube at fixed locations. (b) Robotic experiment setup, featuring a UR5 arm with a tactile sensor and a buried cube in sand.
viralpique.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Humans can detect objects buried in sand before direct contact, demonstrating a form of remote touch similar to that seen in certain shorebirds and expanding the known range of tactile perception. doi.org/g99kpf
Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have.
techxplore.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have. 

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Remote Touch
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sen
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November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
our inventor @antorrisi.bsky.social with poster on #VocalEcho: Closed-loop system for vocal interactions #BioDCASE at 12:21 CET (11.21 UK time) 🐥 🔀 🤖🎈
Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025...
@c4dm.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Prepared Mind Lab was proud to attend the official launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour (CBB) at QMUL.

A brilliant step forward for collaborative brain and behaviour
research, we're excited for what's next.
#PreparedMindLabs #Neuroscience #WellbeingInnovation
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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What a bird neuroscience meeting today! Uwe Mayer gave a fab talk , @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @antorrisi.bsky.social and @juechen.bsky.social delighted to have him and Andrea Gaede at @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Such a pleasure to present the current #PositiveBalance work developed in collaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other key collaborators at QMUL, English National Ballet School and Royal Ballet School for the Linda Hamilton Symposium at #IADMS2025 in Las Vegas. #DancerWellbeing
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
September 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Congrats to @rosiedavis.bsky.social & the Positive Balance project team, chosen from 100+ applicants for the Linda & William Hamilton Dance Wellness Symposium! Rosie will receive a travel grant to attend the 35th #IADMS Annual Conference in Las Vegas next week #DancerWellbeing #PositivePsychology
September 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!

"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?

🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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#ICDL2025
Don't miss Zhengqi Chen @zhengqichen.bsky.social on 16 Sept at 11:45 "Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study"
@ieee-icdl.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Come and see me and my poster ‘Positive Balance: a psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology’ at the #IEPA15 on Wednesday at 1pm. You can find me at poster board 114. #PositivePsychology #EarlyIntervention
September 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
well done Rosie @rosiedavis.bsky.social !!! very proud to see you making new connections and showcasing the science done in colaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other collaborators!
You can find me at poster number 63 at 2:30pm #ECDP2025
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Don't miss @rosiedavis.bsky.social
Positive Balance: a short psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology
#ECDP2025 #posterSession2 14:30-15:30
European Conference on Developmental Psychology
August 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
brilliant experimental day for all the @preparedmindslab.bsky.social team today, and in particular for @antorrisi.bsky.social , @juechen.bsky.social and #chick_12 , who found new feedback systems very engaging! stay tuned for more details...
August 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Our team has two fully-funded @MitacsCanada Globalink Research Internships for Summer 2026.

Application deadline: 17 Sept 2025

Apply at: https://bit.ly/3UZw8Wj

More about our team here: https://bit.ly/4mHxlgY

Details of projects: https://bit.ly/3JfaTNM

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August 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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missing our #tortoise 🐢 studies?
our new preprint here:
"Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult tortoises
(Testudo hermanni)"
with @silviadamini.bsky.social , me and #gionataStancher at #SperimentArea
#reptile #social #testudo
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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our first work on #danceScience and #cognitiveLoad out as a preprint! "Enhancing dance learning by reducing cognitive load: A preregistered study on the effect of dancers’ viewing perspective and expertise" osf.io/preprints/ps...
co-led with Manuela #Angioi , with great collaborators worldwide
July 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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interesting study on ravens' mobbing shows plasticity of antipredator behavior across offspring development!
Led by alumna @silviadamini.bsky.social at Bugnyar lab !
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-01976-9
🪶 👍 #womenSTEM
When to mob? plasticity of antipredator behavior in common ravens’ families (Corvus corax) across offspring development - Animal Cognition
The ability to respond appropriately to predators is essential for survival. Because response options vary with predation context, anti-predator behavior is often flexible, context dependent and shape...
link.springer.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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exciting transatlantic collaboration with @debivort.bsky.social to develop and model how multiple innate biases can support adaptive decisions when newborn animals (and next AI?) have multiple soft biases osf.io/preprints/os... .
Feedback welcome: check our preprint! 🐣 🤖 🐝 👾 🧮 🐑
June 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This week for QMUL's #FestivalofEducation, the fantastic masters student Jane O’Sullivan presented a poster on #PositiveBalance using #PositivePsychology and #DigitalTechnologies to support adolescent wellbeing ⭐

@elisabettaversace.bsky.social @jieyinghuang.bsky.social @rosiedavis.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM