Luke Miller
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
Computational cognitive neuroscientist. PI of the Brain, Body and Technology (BBT) Lab at the Donders Institute. We research touch, body perception, tool use/sensing, body augmentation, and sensorimotor control.
Lab website:
www.brainbodytech.com
Lab website:
www.brainbodytech.com
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Luke Miller
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Humans project tactile sensations from a tool into space, as if part of the body. How? We show tactile feedback is projected into gaze-centered coordinates, offering a framework for tool-based sensory projection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
My lab’s first attempt at characterizing reference frame transformations during tool-extended sensing. Very happy to see this out!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
Reposted by Luke Miller
If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾
July 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾
Reposted by Luke Miller
New work from the lab on how the body representation dynamically adapts to wearable augmentation 🦾
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
New work from the lab on how the body representation dynamically adapts to wearable augmentation 🦾
Just in time for #BRNet2025 !
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Just in time for #BRNet2025 !
Reposted by Luke Miller
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Luke Miller
New preprint!
We find that tactile remapping relies on intrinsic, limb-specific spatial codes, emerging ~160 ms post-stimulus in centro-parietal regions.
by @pevianiv.bsky.social, Hüseyin O. Elmas, @pmedendorp.bsky.social, & @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find that tactile remapping relies on intrinsic, limb-specific spatial codes, emerging ~160 ms post-stimulus in centro-parietal regions.
by @pevianiv.bsky.social, Hüseyin O. Elmas, @pmedendorp.bsky.social, & @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The spatial coding of touch is defined in intrinsic, limb-specific coordinates: an EEG study
The brain localizes touch in space by integrating tactile and proprioceptive signals, a process known as tactile remapping. While it is often assumed that the remapped touch is encoded in an extrinsic...
www.biorxiv.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New preprint!
We find that tactile remapping relies on intrinsic, limb-specific spatial codes, emerging ~160 ms post-stimulus in centro-parietal regions.
by @pevianiv.bsky.social, Hüseyin O. Elmas, @pmedendorp.bsky.social, & @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find that tactile remapping relies on intrinsic, limb-specific spatial codes, emerging ~160 ms post-stimulus in centro-parietal regions.
by @pevianiv.bsky.social, Hüseyin O. Elmas, @pmedendorp.bsky.social, & @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feedback control undistorts body representations: A possible solution to the hand paradox
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
New theory paper with @pevianiv.bsky.social where we take a stab at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of distorted body representations & optimal motor control
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
New theory paper with @pevianiv.bsky.social where we take a stab at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of distorted body representations & optimal motor control
OSF
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Feedback control undistorts body representations: A possible solution to the hand paradox
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
New theory paper with @pevianiv.bsky.social where we take a stab at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of distorted body representations & optimal motor control
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
New theory paper with @pevianiv.bsky.social where we take a stab at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of distorted body representations & optimal motor control
Reposted by Luke Miller
📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
Open positions – Dr. Marie Chancel
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April 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
My lab’s first attempt at characterizing reference frame transformations during tool-extended sensing. Very happy to see this out!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
Humans project tactile sensations from a tool into space, as if part of the body. How? We show tactile feedback is projected into gaze-centered coordinates, offering a framework for tool-based sensory projection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
My lab’s first attempt at characterizing reference frame transformations during tool-extended sensing. Very happy to see this out!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
For anyone interested you in updates on the exciting research coming out of my lab, you can follow us here!
👋 Hello world! We're the Brain, Body, & Technology from the Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University. Our goal is to understand the neural computations used by the brain to construct and update internal models of the body 🧠
April 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For anyone interested you in updates on the exciting research coming out of my lab, you can follow us here!
Reposted by Luke Miller
Humans project tactile sensations from a tool into space, as if part of the body. How? We show tactile feedback is projected into gaze-centered coordinates, offering a framework for tool-based sensory projection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Humans project tactile sensations from a tool into space, as if part of the body. How? We show tactile feedback is projected into gaze-centered coordinates, offering a framework for tool-based sensory projection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social
Reposted by Luke Miller
After 16 hours on the Stockholm-Berlin train, arrived just in time for #MindBrainBody!
Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).
Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).
March 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
After 16 hours on the Stockholm-Berlin train, arrived just in time for #MindBrainBody!
Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).
Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).
Reposted by Luke Miller
Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East
We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Reposted by Luke Miller
In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!
November 22, 2024 at 7:20 PM
In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!
Extending Tactile Space With Handheld Tools: A Re-Analysis and Review
brill.com/view/journal...
This is our paper for the special issue celebrating Vincent Hayward.
Very happy to see this out!
brill.com/view/journal...
This is our paper for the special issue celebrating Vincent Hayward.
Very happy to see this out!
November 20, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Extending Tactile Space With Handheld Tools: A Re-Analysis and Review
brill.com/view/journal...
This is our paper for the special issue celebrating Vincent Hayward.
Very happy to see this out!
brill.com/view/journal...
This is our paper for the special issue celebrating Vincent Hayward.
Very happy to see this out!
Rescaling perceptual hand maps by visual-tactile recalibration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rescaling perceptual hand maps by visual‐tactile recalibration
After concurrent visual and tactile stimuli have been presented repeatedly with a spatial offset, unisensory tactile stimuli, too, are perceived with a spatial bias towards the previously presented v....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Rescaling perceptual hand maps by visual-tactile recalibration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
My contribution to the special issue is now online as a preprint:
Extending tactile space with hand-held tools: A re-analysis and review
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The paper is dedicated to our collaboration with Vincent on tool-extended sensing. He is missed
Extending tactile space with hand-held tools: A re-analysis and review
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The paper is dedicated to our collaboration with Vincent on tool-extended sensing. He is missed
April 2, 2024 at 10:23 AM
My contribution to the special issue is now online as a preprint:
Extending tactile space with hand-held tools: A re-analysis and review
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The paper is dedicated to our collaboration with Vincent on tool-extended sensing. He is missed
Extending tactile space with hand-held tools: A re-analysis and review
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The paper is dedicated to our collaboration with Vincent on tool-extended sensing. He is missed
New paper alert!!!
Alpha oscillations reflect similar mapping mechanisms for localizing touch on hands and tools www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...
Alpha oscillations reflect similar mapping mechanisms for localizing touch on hands and tools www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...
February 26, 2024 at 5:25 AM
New paper alert!!!
Alpha oscillations reflect similar mapping mechanisms for localizing touch on hands and tools www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...
Alpha oscillations reflect similar mapping mechanisms for localizing touch on hands and tools www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...
New open PhD position in my lab at the Donders Institute!
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment.
Deadline: 14 February, 2024
Link: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment.
Deadline: 14 February, 2024
Link: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
January 30, 2024 at 8:33 AM
New open PhD position in my lab at the Donders Institute!
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment.
Deadline: 14 February, 2024
Link: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in the computational underpinnings of body augmentation and embodiment.
Deadline: 14 February, 2024
Link: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Our attempt to resolve/dissolve the so-called “hand paradox”! This has been a labor of love for Valeria and I’m so happy to see it out!
Our research challenges the long-held idea of distorted hand model!
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
December 7, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Our attempt to resolve/dissolve the so-called “hand paradox”! This has been a labor of love for Valeria and I’m so happy to see it out!
Reposted by Luke Miller
Our research challenges the long-held idea of distorted hand model!
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
December 7, 2023 at 4:06 PM
Our research challenges the long-held idea of distorted hand model!
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
With @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social and Pieter Medendorp we show that biases in finger perception arise from the Bayesian integration of accurate but noisy signals on finger geometry. Check out the preprint: bit.ly/46LOrSA
NEW PAPER ALERT!
The latest in our series of studies on the sensory embodiment of tools
A Somatosensory Computation That Unifies Limbs and Tools eneuro.org/content/10/1...
We find that localising touch on a tool repurposes *the same computation* used to localise touch on the body
The latest in our series of studies on the sensory embodiment of tools
A Somatosensory Computation That Unifies Limbs and Tools eneuro.org/content/10/1...
We find that localising touch on a tool repurposes *the same computation* used to localise touch on the body
eneuro.org
November 24, 2023 at 5:36 PM
NEW PAPER ALERT!
The latest in our series of studies on the sensory embodiment of tools
A Somatosensory Computation That Unifies Limbs and Tools eneuro.org/content/10/1...
We find that localising touch on a tool repurposes *the same computation* used to localise touch on the body
The latest in our series of studies on the sensory embodiment of tools
A Somatosensory Computation That Unifies Limbs and Tools eneuro.org/content/10/1...
We find that localising touch on a tool repurposes *the same computation* used to localise touch on the body
Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Awesome paper demonstrating an important difference between primates and mice. #neuroskyence
Awesome paper demonstrating an important difference between primates and mice. #neuroskyence
Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements - Nature Neuroscience
In primates, activity in the visual cortex is not driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing, in contrast with findings in m...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Awesome paper demonstrating an important difference between primates and mice. #neuroskyence
Awesome paper demonstrating an important difference between primates and mice. #neuroskyence
Reposted by Luke Miller
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT HAYWARD (1955-2023)
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
October 11, 2023 at 9:11 AM
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT HAYWARD (1955-2023)
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Reposted by Luke Miller
Vincent Hayward was a such remarkable scholar and wonderfully generous person. Beautiful initiative!
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT HAYWARD (1955-2023)
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
October 11, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Vincent Hayward was a such remarkable scholar and wonderfully generous person. Beautiful initiative!
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT HAYWARD (1955-2023)
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
October 11, 2023 at 9:11 AM
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT HAYWARD (1955-2023)
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky
Special Issue in Multisensory Research to celebrate our dear friend Vincent.
Submission deadline: 01/04/2024
Guest edited by Luke Miller, Alessandro Farnè, and Marc Ernst.
#Neuroskyence PsychSciSky