Akseli Ilmanen
@akseli-ilmanen.bsky.social
MSc Neuroscience @Uni of Tübingen,
Motor control in tool-using crows 🐦⬛🧠 BrainSpaceTime & Embodied AI podcast🎙️🤓
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Motor control in tool-using crows 🐦⬛🧠 BrainSpaceTime & Embodied AI podcast🎙️🤓
➡️ https://linktr.ee/akseli_ilmanen
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New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
September 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Really interesting study showing learning of tool use in carrion crows! www.cell.com/current-biol...
September 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really interesting study showing learning of tool use in carrion crows! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Akseli Ilmanen
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence #neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
#neuroskyence #neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence #neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
#neuroskyence #neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
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Careful dissection of motor sequence learning by @andpru.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social. In my humble opinion this should be an instant classic 😏.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Motor sequence learning involves better prediction of the next action and optimization of movement trajectories
Learning new sequential movements is a fundamental skill for many animals. Motor sequence learning may arise from three distinct processes: (1) improved execution of individual movements independent o...
www.jneurosci.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Careful dissection of motor sequence learning by @andpru.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social. In my humble opinion this should be an instant classic 😏.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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First big new @simonsfoundation.org neuroscience collaboration launches - exciting!! The product of a HUGE competition among the best minds and teams.
Congrats to this group:
www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...
Congrats to this group:
www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...
Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
First big new @simonsfoundation.org neuroscience collaboration launches - exciting!! The product of a HUGE competition among the best minds and teams.
Congrats to this group:
www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...
Congrats to this group:
www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...
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1/7 Carrion crows recognize geometric figures without prior training
There has been much debate about whether our sensitivity to Euclidean geometry is unique, as experiments with primates seemed to indicate. We now know that it is not the case.
(paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
There has been much debate about whether our sensitivity to Euclidean geometry is unique, as experiments with primates seemed to indicate. We now know that it is not the case.
(paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
1/7 Carrion crows recognize geometric figures without prior training
There has been much debate about whether our sensitivity to Euclidean geometry is unique, as experiments with primates seemed to indicate. We now know that it is not the case.
(paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
There has been much debate about whether our sensitivity to Euclidean geometry is unique, as experiments with primates seemed to indicate. We now know that it is not the case.
(paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...