Gavin Buckingham
@drgbuckingham.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality.
I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
Are you a UK-based physiotherapist or occupational therapist working with hand and wrist conditions?
Please take part in our short survey, about VR use in this specific discipline
Link to study info: lnkd.in/dxBHP_Ht
Link to survey: lnkd.in/d9VMzurH
please RT
Please take part in our short survey, about VR use in this specific discipline
Link to study info: lnkd.in/dxBHP_Ht
Link to survey: lnkd.in/d9VMzurH
please RT
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November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Are you a UK-based physiotherapist or occupational therapist working with hand and wrist conditions?
Please take part in our short survey, about VR use in this specific discipline
Link to study info: lnkd.in/dxBHP_Ht
Link to survey: lnkd.in/d9VMzurH
please RT
Please take part in our short survey, about VR use in this specific discipline
Link to study info: lnkd.in/dxBHP_Ht
Link to survey: lnkd.in/d9VMzurH
please RT
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It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?
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The Ponizsa illusion - Kanizsa triangle produces Ponzo illusion, but oddly it inverts apparent depth: the longer line looks closer! Also has an inversion effect like we studied in Altan et al 2025 Proc Roy Soc (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) but it's also in reverse! 🤔
#visionscience #psychscisky
#visionscience #psychscisky
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The Ponizsa illusion - Kanizsa triangle produces Ponzo illusion, but oddly it inverts apparent depth: the longer line looks closer! Also has an inversion effect like we studied in Altan et al 2025 Proc Roy Soc (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) but it's also in reverse! 🤔
#visionscience #psychscisky
#visionscience #psychscisky
Accidentally amazing photo from fireworks night a couple of years ago
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Accidentally amazing photo from fireworks night a couple of years ago
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My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
If you're wondering why you're no longer seeing my posts, it's because the moderators have gotten to me (new advanced moderation settings in 'Sky)
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you're wondering why you're no longer seeing my posts, it's because the moderators have gotten to me (new advanced moderation settings in 'Sky)
Strong meme game in the kid's online homework platform
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Strong meme game in the kid's online homework platform
Social comfort beats biomechanical comfort. Cool paper, but annoying not to have data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Evil At Hand: Effect of the Social Meaning of Objects on Motor Planning
When planning reach-to-grasp movements, individuals frequently face a tradeoff between biomechanical comfort (i.e., avoiding effortful actions) and “socio-emotional comfort” (i.e., avoiding decisio...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Social comfort beats biomechanical comfort. Cool paper, but annoying not to have data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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before obtaining their degree, medical students have to pass their #OSCE - Objective Structured Clinical Exams, the gold-standard assessment, involving actors as standardised patients.
Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR
Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR
Immersive virtual reality versus in-person performance assessment in undergraduate medical education – an exploratory comparison
rdcu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
before obtaining their degree, medical students have to pass their #OSCE - Objective Structured Clinical Exams, the gold-standard assessment, involving actors as standardised patients.
Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR
Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR
Finally a school event I'm prepared for
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Finally a school event I'm prepared for
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy Halloween
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The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity
The cerebellum is implicated in nearly every domain of human cognition, yet our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to cognition remains elusive. Efforts on this front have ten...
arxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
Some poor guy at @vrsummit.bsky.social earlier this month trying to straighten out the bent and mangled fingers we had him embody in the #VR hand embodiment tool developed @caitlinenaylor.bsky.social during her PhD
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Some poor guy at @vrsummit.bsky.social earlier this month trying to straighten out the bent and mangled fingers we had him embody in the #VR hand embodiment tool developed @caitlinenaylor.bsky.social during her PhD
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(1/3) Every year, more than 12 million people worldwide experience a stroke. On World Stroke Day (29 October), we’re highlighting research that’s offering new hope for recovery.
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
(1/3) Every year, more than 12 million people worldwide experience a stroke. On World Stroke Day (29 October), we’re highlighting research that’s offering new hope for recovery.
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It is well known that movement accuracy decline if there’s a delay between target vision and movement onset. Is the same true for haptically sensed targets? With @volcic.bsky.social we found that it depends on the posture of the reaching and sensing hands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bimanual Postural Similarity Facilitates Haptic Memory-Guided Reaching
In the visual domain, the precision of memory-guided reaching movements gradually decays as the delay between vision withdrawal and movement onset increases. Such a decrease is often linked to the imp...
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It is well known that movement accuracy decline if there’s a delay between target vision and movement onset. Is the same true for haptically sensed targets? With @volcic.bsky.social we found that it depends on the posture of the reaching and sensing hands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Continuing with my festive-themed posts
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Continuing with my festive-themed posts
New parkrun PB at the weekend - 23.28 (the move to the winter route apparently knocks about 30s off my previous best time)
Operation breaking 23 starts now with renewed enthusiasm!
Operation breaking 23 starts now with renewed enthusiasm!
a man is walking down a dirt road with the words on my way written on it .
ALT: a man is walking down a dirt road with the words on my way written on it .
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
New parkrun PB at the weekend - 23.28 (the move to the winter route apparently knocks about 30s off my previous best time)
Operation breaking 23 starts now with renewed enthusiasm!
Operation breaking 23 starts now with renewed enthusiasm!
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A new, Short and Sweet open-access paper on how briefly hiding the hand impedes goal-directed arm movements. Briefly is really brief: we find a decrease in performance in goal-directed movements due to just a few ms without vision of the hand (target remains visible). doi.org/10.1177/0301...
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A new, Short and Sweet open-access paper on how briefly hiding the hand impedes goal-directed arm movements. Briefly is really brief: we find a decrease in performance in goal-directed movements due to just a few ms without vision of the hand (target remains visible). doi.org/10.1177/0301...
So Nike has made an acupuncture/pressure points shoe or something? Lots of mind/body connection gibberish, but no sense of what would actually make someone choose to wear something to bizarre looking
about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...
about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...
Nike Debuts its First Neuroscience-Based Footwear to Help Athletes Feel Calm, Focused and Present — NIKE, Inc.
The Mind 001 and Mind 002 are the first neuroscience-based footwear from Nike that tap into the mind-body connection by activating sensory receptors in the feet.
about.nike.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So Nike has made an acupuncture/pressure points shoe or something? Lots of mind/body connection gibberish, but no sense of what would actually make someone choose to wear something to bizarre looking
about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...
about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...
The stigmata are a lovely subtle touch in this special image
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The stigmata are a lovely subtle touch in this special image
Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!
The Ethics of Digital Touch
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ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
The Ethics of Digital Touch
Digital touch refers to haptic technologies that deliver somatic sensations primarily via cutaneous mechanoreceptors, with additional involvement of deeper receptors (e.g., muscles and joints). Like a...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Ethics of Digital Touch
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...