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Celia Foster

@celiafoster.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, researching body perception using neuroimaging methods. Proponent of Psychtoolbox.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Applications Open! We are looking for a motivated summer intern to support a podcast in development in collaboration with the Plasticity Lab, exploring what restorative, assistive, and augmentative neurotechnology reveals about hidden human capacity 🦾 Full details here: forms.office.com/e/PDjanEYkSE
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Celia Foster @celiafoster.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I'm presenting a poster at #NCMKobe26 on how we can use indirect touch to localise touch on an artificial robotic limb. Come by P2-F-140 today or tomorrow to find out more!
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Raffa @raffatucca.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We're thrilled to announce that our new research article, "Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development”, has just been published in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) with @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Matej Hoffman.
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Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development - Nature Communications
Children born without a hand show early, widespread changes in brain maps, with body parts shifting across the homunculus. Adaptive behaviours explain individual differences but cannot override this e...
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Can we use robotic augmentation limbs as flexibly as our natural limbs⁉️ 🧨 Our new study, just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, tested this using the Third Thumb @daniclode.bsky.social: a wearable robotic extra thumb you control with your toes! www.cell.com/current-biol... ‼️‼️
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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18
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Maria Molina-Sanchez @mariamolinasan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands? 🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/10
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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New article out at Science Advances! Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
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The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our PhD students @maggieszymanska.bsky.social and Julien Russ ready to present their posters today at #BRNet2025! Find them in the poster room at 2pm, talking about phantom limb pain and using EMG to control the Third Thumb 🧠
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Having a great time in Utrecht at #BRNet2025! Today, our very talented postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social and amazing PhD student Ema Jugovic presented their posters. Really great work showcasing our new Third Thumb studies 🧠
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Our lab had a fantastic time this week presenting our current work at @uksensorimotor25.bsky.social in Oxford 🧠
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Lucy Dowdall @lucydowdall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to share our new interdisciplinary work exploring the sensory representation of an artificial body part, combing datasets and methodologies to explore sensorimotor integration of the Third Thumb, a 2 DoF hand augmentation device (@daniclode.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hristo’s presenting his poster today and tomorrow at #NCMPan25! Come and check out his work on information content in sensorimotor cortex in controls and people with amputations at 2-F-72 @ncmsociety.bsky.social
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Celia Foster @celiafoster.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'm presenting a poster at #NCMPan25 about how we can integrate 👉 touch location and 👍limb posture to make movements to touch locations on an additional 🦾 robotic thumb. Come find out more at poster 1-F-73 today and tomorrow!
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Psychtoolbox @psychtoolbox.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source. If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
A flying superhero cat
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Psychtoolbox @psychtoolbox.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New Psychtoolbox 3.0.20.4 “Sleight of Hand” 👋 is now released! Featuring new articulated 🖐️ hand and 👉 finger tracking for virtual reality. Enjoy! Full details: psychtoolbox.org/news.html
Hand giving thumbs up with a smiley on the thumb.
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Celia Foster @celiafoster.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Opportunity for undergraduate students at UK and Irish universities to come and do a funded summer internship here with us at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Institute in Cambridge this summer. Full details here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/su... #neurojobs
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Summer Placement Scheme
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Join us tomorrow (19 March from 6pm) at the MRC CBU for our 'Science Night' open evening. We have a fantastic line up of speakers talking on various topics of interest in cognition and neuroscience research! Event details: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/scien...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The dynamic version is even more disturbing...
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Marie Martel @mariefmartel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🚨 I'm hiring! 🚨 Passionate about motor learning in #dyspraxic and typically developing #children? Become a Research Assistant @modilab-surrey.bsky.social @surreypsychology.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 12th Feb 🔄 Spread the word! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #neurojobs
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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research Assistant in Neurodiversity & Motor Skills Development
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ours...
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Psychtoolbox @psychtoolbox.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On the 16th day of 🎄 Christmas #Psychtoolbox gave to me…. A new PTB release with beta quality 🍎 macOS Apple Silicon Mac support, enjoy! PTB "Appletizer“ release details here: psychtoolbox.org/news.html
A Christmas Apple
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Psychtoolbox @psychtoolbox.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hello Bluesky 🏙️! Psychtoolbox is here! Follow us for Psychtoolbox-related news📰, as well as tips and tricks💡! #Psychtoolbox
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Olaf Hauk @olafhauk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We start the "Research Tools" session with @celiafoster.bsky.social talk on "Real-time 3D motion tracking using a portable stereo depth camera" @mrccbu's #CBUMethodsDay.
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great talk by our amazing postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social at the #CBUMethodsDay! She introduced motion tracking methods available in neuroscience 🧠 and showed how she is setting up a real-time 3D motion tracking using a portable stereo camera! 🎥 It's a great way of tracking the third thumb!
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