Solya Székely
@solyas.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Bath | Neuropsychology | Movement Perception and Understanding | Brain Stimulation | Open Science | https://tms-rat.org/
Watch out for this absolute beast of a meta-analysis 🐲
sneak preview of the #TMS #MetaAnalysis I've been working on for two years...
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Watch out for this absolute beast of a meta-analysis 🐲
Is there a link this manuscript, please? :)
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Is there a link this manuscript, please? :)
Reposted by Solya Székely
The most compelling null finding you're likely to see
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The most compelling null finding you're likely to see
Work with 5/6 of my awesome supervisory team ☀️ @jendavies.bsky.social, @drgbuckingham.bsky.social, Chris Chambers, Ezio Preatoni, and Janet Bultitude.
Thanks to gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social and psychologybath.bsky.social
Thanks to gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social and psychologybath.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Work with 5/6 of my awesome supervisory team ☀️ @jendavies.bsky.social, @drgbuckingham.bsky.social, Chris Chambers, Ezio Preatoni, and Janet Bultitude.
Thanks to gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social and psychologybath.bsky.social
Thanks to gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social and psychologybath.bsky.social
We hypothesise that the changes in motor system engagement during action observation associated with imagery vividness ('aphantasia') may reflect the extent to which the motor system participates in generating predictions about the observed action, not a necessary mechanism for action understanding.
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We hypothesise that the changes in motor system engagement during action observation associated with imagery vividness ('aphantasia') may reflect the extent to which the motor system participates in generating predictions about the observed action, not a necessary mechanism for action understanding.
We found that neither motor nor general visual imagery vividness predicted action understanding, Bayesian analyses provided moderate to strong evidence for the null hypothesis, and the results were stable across multiple robustness checks/ sensitivity analyses.
December 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We found that neither motor nor general visual imagery vividness predicted action understanding, Bayesian analyses provided moderate to strong evidence for the null hypothesis, and the results were stable across multiple robustness checks/ sensitivity analyses.
We examined the relationship between this measure and self-reported vividness of visual and motor imagery in an online sample of 392 participants.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We examined the relationship between this measure and self-reported vividness of visual and motor imagery in an online sample of 392 participants.
We developed a measure of action understanding, in which participants judged the weight of objects from observing a hand lifting them. Action understanding was indexed by the slope of the relationship between the change in the objects’ actual weights and participants’ precipitation of the weights.
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We developed a measure of action understanding, in which participants judged the weight of objects from observing a hand lifting them. Action understanding was indexed by the slope of the relationship between the change in the objects’ actual weights and participants’ precipitation of the weights.
The question was motivated by past research linking action observation and imagery,e.g., evidence for overlapping neural representation, and by recent work (Dupont et al., 2024), finding an association between imagery vividness and motor system engagement during passive observation of hand actions.
December 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The question was motivated by past research linking action observation and imagery,e.g., evidence for overlapping neural representation, and by recent work (Dupont et al., 2024), finding an association between imagery vividness and motor system engagement during passive observation of hand actions.
Check out our new preprint!! 🤏👀
Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.
Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.
OSF
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Check out our new preprint!! 🤏👀
Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.
Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.
Reposted by Solya Székely
Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
Are you someone, or do you know anyone, who has pain in their arm/hand/shoulder (for any reason) and would be interested in contributing to ONLINE research on movement perception in upper limb pain?
Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...
Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...
December 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Are you someone, or do you know anyone, who has pain in their arm/hand/shoulder (for any reason) and would be interested in contributing to ONLINE research on movement perception in upper limb pain?
Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...
Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...
Reposted by Solya Székely
Today at 14:00 GMT
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This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on:
"The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability"
Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT
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Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it!
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
"The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability"
Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT
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Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it!
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
Meetings
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Today at 14:00 GMT
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Who wants to be a postdoc in Cardiff?
Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨
Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨
**Come work with us!!**
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Who wants to be a postdoc in Cardiff?
Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨
Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨
Thank you for the update, it's pretty! Would it be possible to do something about the loading times?
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thank you for the update, it's pretty! Would it be possible to do something about the loading times?
Reposted by Solya Székely
To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
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forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
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TMSMultiLab survey
TMSMultiLab is a community of ~70 researchers using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We aim to share methods code and data, to reach consensus & encourage best practice in TMS research methods...
forms.gle
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
Friday is a big day for the TMS-RAT🤩
This Friday's Monthly Meeting is given by Solya Szekely @solyas.bsky.social who will tell us about the TMS-RAT 🐀 Project.
In this project, 18 members of TMSMultiLab created, developed & tested a tool for #SystematicReview #MeyaAnalysis & reporting in #TMS research
Join us!
tms-rat.org
In this project, 18 members of TMSMultiLab created, developed & tested a tool for #SystematicReview #MeyaAnalysis & reporting in #TMS research
Join us!
tms-rat.org
tms-rat.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Friday is a big day for the TMS-RAT🤩
Reposted by Solya Székely
This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility
Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility
Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
Had a wonderful time at #BACN last week. I’m very grateful for all the in-depth discussions, and so excited that our project with @mmarneweck.bsky.social was awarded the poster prize 🏆
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Had a wonderful time at #BACN last week. I’m very grateful for all the in-depth discussions, and so excited that our project with @mmarneweck.bsky.social was awarded the poster prize 🏆
Reposted by Solya Székely
We're now up to 29 labs across 16 countries for our replication project! There is still room for more labs to join us. We are particularly seeking labs capable of testing native English speakers, though all labs are welcome to participate. For more information: rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We're now up to 29 labs across 16 countries for our replication project! There is still room for more labs to join us. We are particularly seeking labs capable of testing native English speakers, though all labs are welcome to participate. For more information: rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
A huge thank you to @mmarneweck.bsky.social for hosting me and to @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social for making this opportunity possible.
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A huge thank you to @mmarneweck.bsky.social for hosting me and to @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social for making this opportunity possible.
This year, I spent March–June at the University of Oregon, working with @mmarneweck.bsky.social on an fMRI analysis of the representational pattern similarity of lip and hand movements after upper-limb amputation.
Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!
Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This year, I spent March–June at the University of Oregon, working with @mmarneweck.bsky.social on an fMRI analysis of the representational pattern similarity of lip and hand movements after upper-limb amputation.
Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!
Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!
I previously got responses (and eventually found a wonderful mathematician collaborator) to a similar query from the HUB of Quantitative Modelling in Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/qua...
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/qua...
EPSRC Hub for Quantitative Modelling in Healthcare | EPSRC Hub for Quantitative Modelling in Healthcare | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I previously got responses (and eventually found a wonderful mathematician collaborator) to a similar query from the HUB of Quantitative Modelling in Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/qua...
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/qua...