Serge Dumoulin

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Scientist meandering at the intersection of perception, cognition, neuroscience and computational neuroimaging.

Director of the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, group leader at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

homepagehttp://sergedumoulin.net

My favorite anecdote on the superiority of its product design culture:

For years Masto has avoided quote posts, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth in a conversation that goes in circles, to the detriment of making things people want

Bsky shipped a thing where you can just detach yourself from any quoting post you feel is acting in bad faith, or otherwise brings you attention you don’t want

Sorry, man, they got the juice

Using the whole brain to measure cognitive skills seems crude in the light of modern cognitive neuroscience studies that look at specific parts of the brain. But how relevant are these types of lab-based studies to cognition in the wild?
https://elifesciences.org/digests/87780/from-lab-to-field-and-back?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
From lab to field, and back

Observations made from cognitive neuroscience studies could predict how social and ecological factors influence the size of specific brain regions in primates.

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
My Twitter is gone, so I might start posting here more often! Let me re-introduce myself. I study birds. In particular, I borrow insights from developmental systems theory and enactive cognition to explore how birds experience and construct their social environments. I'm also critical of genetic determinism in animal and human behavior.

If you're on BlueSky and want to bridge to Mastodon, follow @ap.brid.gy

That's it. Nothing to install, no terms of service to sign, no complicated garbage. If you want to stop, just block @ap.brid.gy

Details here: https://fed.brid.gy/docs

If you want to bridge your account to BlueSky, simply follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy

Why am I encouraging this? Because when BlueSky inevitably goes bad, people there will have friends in the Fediverse to help them move here.

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

If you think endorsing a guy who takes advantage of underage girls is cool, X is the site for you.

I have had enough.

Hello, Mastodon.

Gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation may be linked through a common process that reinstates past experiences during memory retrieval! https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.19.619187

Check out our #Preprint that integrates eye tracking into the Sherlock fMRI Dataset (Postdoc work w/@[email protected])!

What's so special about the human brain?

Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.

Please remember that Mastodon doesn't have a marketing team or budget. Whatever media coverage Mastodon gets is from inbound interest from journalists. The growth of the platform has been predominantly through word of mouth. If you want the fediverse to grow, tell your friends.

This shader shows the extent of your fovea on your visual field:
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM

"Look at any specific point and you should clearly see the extent of your fovea (the stars only seem to be rotating in a small circle at the center of your vision). Move your head back and forth to see it grow/shrink. Works better in full screen mode."

(You need to click the link, not look at the static image.)

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.