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Yue Du

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Assistant Professor @ Texas A&M; Study how we learn motor skills and achieve expertise.

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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This one is finally published! Get a nice PDF copy from this link rdcu.be/fsEAn Massive congratulations to all authors, specially first author @antovami.bsky.social. Enhorabuena Antonio!!!
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The evaluation of devaluation: Deficient outcome devaluation leads to wrongly considering goal-directed actions as habits
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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-032: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH NOT-OD-26-032. NIH
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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New preprint! tinyurl.com/y6z57dsm How do people discover an effective strategy when the environment shifts—say, when adapting to an unfamiliar trackpad? Our take: strategic motor adaptation isn’t a smooth process of error reduction but rather a process of hypothesis testing. 🧵
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Hypothesis Testing Governs an Efficiency-Flexibility Trade-off in Strategic Motor Learning
It remains unknown how people discover an effective movement strategy when the environment changes (e.g., when adapting to a new computer trackpad). We propose that strategic adaptation operates throu...
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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Adrian Haith @adrianhaith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New Pre-Print: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning. Overview 🧵 below...
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Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience
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Principles for proper peer review
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
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Adrian Haith @adrianhaith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New pre-print! We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated. More in Eric's 🧵 👇
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
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Olivier Collignon @olicolli.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science
This study reveals that non-native English speakers, especially early in their careers, spend more effort than native English speakers in conducting scientific activities, from reading and writing pap...
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Yue Du @yuedu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Very excited to share our new paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com.
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