The article discusses how the distribution of body fat in different regions relates to brain aging and cognitive performance, independent of overall obesity. It highlights that visceral fat, arm and trunk fat, and leg fat each show distinct associations with brain structure, connectivity, and thinking abilities.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it connects physical health factors with neural changes and cognitive outcomes, illustrating how bodily processes influence brain function over time.

Article Title: The location of your body fat is linked to how fast your brain ages

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/the-location-of-your-body-fat-is-linked-to-how-fast-your-brain-ages/

#brainaging #adiposity #visceralfat #cognition #neuroscience #brainstructure #functionalMRI #diffusionMRI #sensorimotor #limbicsystem

The article reports that adults with stronger math abilities tend to rely less on the brain's sensorimotor regions when processing numbers, indicating a shift toward more automatic and abstract numerical processing with higher proficiency.

This topic is of interest to psychology because it highlights how cognitive processing strategies can become more efficient with experience, illustrating neural plasticity and the transition from embodied to abstract representations in skills development.

Article Title: Adults with better math skills rely less on the brainโ€™s physical movement areas

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/adults-with-better-math-skills-rely-less-on-the-brains-physical-movement-areas/

#math #cognition #neuroscience #embodiedcognition #neuralefficiency #sensorimotor #automaticity #numericalprocessing #fMRI #brainresearch

๐Ÿ“ฐ "Sex-specific behavioral feedback modulates sensorimotor processing and drives flexible social behavior"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72057-9
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42082469/
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Sensorimotor
#Drosophila #Behaviour

FPV MICRO-CONTROL โ€” PRACTICAL HACKS

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1. Stick Contact

Donโ€™t press โ€” rest on the stick
Pressure = tremor + muscle overload

Fingertip (edge) contact
Control from the tip edge โ†’ smaller amplitude

Dry fingers
Slipping = loss of micro-control (wipe / chalk if needed)

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2. Micro Movements

Move โ‰  hold
Use short impulses, not sustained positions

1โ€“2 mm rule
Around center, movements stay within a few millimeters

Pause between corrections
Lets the system respond, reduces oscillation

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3. Vision & Trajectory

Look at the exit, not the obstacle
Your eyes lead the drone

Focus on the path/horizon
Donโ€™t fixate on details โ†’ more stable control

Predict 0.5โ€“1 s ahead
Otherwise youโ€™re always late

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4. Control Rhythm

Fly in pulses
Input โ†’ pause โ†’ input โ†’ pause

Sync throttle + pitch
Channels shouldnโ€™t fight each other

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5. Throttle

Donโ€™t hold constant throttle
Causes drift and overcorrection

Use micro throttle pulses
Better altitude hold

Memorize throttle mid
Your altitude โ€œzeroโ€

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6. Body Tension

Relax shoulders โ†’ reduces finger tremor

Breathing: short exhale before a tricky move

Support elbows/palms โ†’ added stability

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7. Tuning for Physiomotor Control

Expo 0.2โ€“0.4 โ†’ finer center control

Lower center sensitivity โ†’ less twitchiness

Donโ€™t overdo feedforward โ†’ avoids nervous feel

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8. Anti-Tremor

Before flying:

warm up fingers (30โ€“60 s)

a few dry stick movements

If youโ€™re shaky: โ†’ fly 2โ€“3 slow circles
โ†’ nervous system stabilizes

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9. Simulator as a Tool

10โ€“15 min daily > 2 hours once a week

train slow flight, not speed

practice clean lines, not tricks

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10. Core Principle

If youโ€™re correcting often โ€” youโ€™re already late.

Solution: โ†’ fewer inputs
โ†’ more prediction
โ†’ consistent rhythm

#FPV #FPVDrone #DroneControl #MicroControl #PrecisionFlying #DronePiloting #FPVFreestyle #FPVRacing #StickControl #FineMotorSkills #HandEyeCoordination #Sensorimotor #FlightControl #DroneSkills #FPVTraining #DroneSimulator #ThrottleControl #PIDTuning #RCControl #AerialControl #DroneTech #LowLatency #Feedforward #ExpoSettings #ControlTheory

๐Ÿ“ฐ "Wind history shapes olfactory search response in free flying Drosophila melanogaster"
https://doi.org/doi:10.64898/2026.04.05.716000
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41993346/
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Sensorimotor
#Drosophila
๐Ÿ“ฐ "A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.045
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41966690/
#Sensorimotor
#Connectomics
#Drosophila
๐Ÿ“ฐ "From perception to valence: a pair of interneurons that assign positive valence to sweet sensation in Drosophila"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685871v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Sensorimotor
#Drosophila #Taste
From perception to valence: a pair of interneurons that assign positive valence to sweet sensation in Drosophila

Assigning valence, appeal or aversion, to gustatory stimuli and relaying it to higher-order brain regions to guide flexible behaviors is crucial to survival. Yet the neural circuit that transforms gustatory input into motivationally relevant signals remains poorly defined in any model system. In Drosophila melanogaster, substantial progress has been made in mapping the sensorimotor pathway for feeding and the architecture of the dopaminergic reinforcement system. However, where and how valence is first assigned to a taste has long been a mystery. Here, we identified a pair of subesophageal zone interneurons in Drosophila, termed Fox, that impart positive valence to sweet taste and convey this signal to the mushroom body, the fly's associative learning center. We show that Fox neuron activity is necessary and sufficient to drive appetitive behaviors and can override a tastant's intrinsic valence without impairing taste quality discrimination. Furthermore, Fox neurons transmit the positive valence to specific dopaminergic neurons that mediate appetitive memory formation. Our findings reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms sweet sensation into a reinforcing signal to support learned sugar responses. The Fox neurons exhibit a convergent-divergent "hourglass" circuit motif, acting as a bottleneck for valence assignment and distributing motivational signals to higher-order centers. This architecture confers both robustness and flexibility in reward processing: an organizational principle that may generalize across species. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Institute of General Medical Sciences, https://ror.org/04q48ey07, R35GM147504, GM104941, GM103446

bioRxiv
๐Ÿ“ฐ "Connectomics Reveals a Feed-Forward Swallowing Circuit Driving Protein Appetite"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.671815v1?rss=1
#InternalState
#Connectomics
#Sensorimotor
#Drosophila

๐Ÿ“ฃ Now published:

"Auditory-motor adaptation and de-adaptation for speech depend more on time in the new environment than on the amount of practice"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00304-8

#MotorLearning #Adaptation #Speech #Sensorimotor #MotorControl

Auditory-motor adaptation and de-adaptation for speech depend more on time in the new environment than on the amount of practice - Communications Psychology

Speech auditory-motor adaptation to a formant-shift perturbation and de-adaptation after the perturbation is removed both depend more on total amount of time spent in the corresponding environment than on the number of practice trials.

Nature
๐Ÿ“ฐ "Thermotaxis behavior of Drosophila melanogaster: A quantitative analysis of sensory-motor integration and heat avoidance"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.668339v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Sensorimotor
#Neuroscience
#Drosophila #Behaviour #Sensory