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So glad to announce a new paper entitled "The microstructure of intra- and interpersonal coordination" by Giovanni Nazzaro, Marco Emanuele, Julien Laroche, Chiara Esposto, Luciano Fadiga, Me, and Alice Tomassini

Here we follow a new line of research on sub-movements, i.e. recurrent speed pulses (2-3 Hz), which perhaps reflect intermittent feedback-based motor adjustments.

Our previous work has shown that sub-movements are non-trivially coordinated between interacting individuals. This potentially opens a new window into the implicit mechanics of behavioural co-ordination (link below).

The new study investigates whether submovement coordination is organised differently between and within individuals in a series of bimanual tasks alone or in pairs, with or without visual feedback.

We conclude that the microstructure of movement reveals common principles governing the dynamics of sensorimotor control to achieve both intra- and interpersonal coordination.

New paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1576#d1e1488

Old one:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222003662?via%3Dihub

FIRMM software provides real-time and summary feedback about motion during #fMRI. Although this can reduce motion during resting state studies, what about task studies?

Real-time feedback reduces participant motion during task-based fMRI

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.12.523791

We pseudorandomly assigned participants to receive motion feedback, or not, during an fMRI study of spoken word recognition. We found feedback associated with modest-but-significant reductions in motion (framewise displacement), particularly for high-motion frames. For some studies, it could be that giving participants feedback about their motion will improve data quality.

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Happy to share that this paper from Loretta Norton, Adrian Owen, and colleagues—which I had a small role in—is now out! (1/)

In this paper, we used #fMRI to assess the cognitive functions of people with acute disorders of consciousness, such as coma (following up on a mountain of prior work in chronic disorders of consciousness, much from Adrian's lab).

Functional Neuroimaging as an Assessment Tool in Critically Ill Patients

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ana.26530

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