Jeroen Smeets

In our new review, we discuss how aiming for the best answers leads to inconsistent perception: doi.org/10.3389/fnint.… In this digest, I will present some examples. The first is that the Brentano illusion affects the length (green) of a line, but not the endpoints (blue) (1/5)

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@joshtybur Van harte gefeliciteerd! NWO heeft het eindelijk door 😀

I'm happy to share that I've received an NWO (Dutch Science Organization) Vici grant. The five-year project aims to better understand how disgust relates to morality. A brief description and some highlights:

@lakens Gefeliciteerd!

I'm very grateful to have received a VICI grant. I'll work on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes in psychology. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to create a team to work on this challenge in the next five years. nwo.nl/onderzoeksprog…

OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions - Assarioti @EAssarioti Jeroen Smeets @JBJSmeets and colleagues @FENSorg @WileyNeuro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

@IrisVanRooij My answer would be: female, but that was not one of the choices research.vu.nl/en/persons/dor…

Can you also guess the gender of the person in this hypothetical scenario?

📊Hypothetical scenario: A person publishes >30 papers in 1 year. In your honest opinion, is this a red flag? I.e., does this suggest problematic scientific and authorship practices? Yes, or no, or depends? (Please feel free to explain your POV)

#VU_BW is excited to welcome Florentina Hettinga as our new department head by October first. At the same time, we'd like to thank departing department head @DieenJaap for his leadership and curiosity

✨ 📽 Imagine you're a professional football player. You dribble, kick, and score. But how does that work in your brain? @pmedendorp and Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes provide you an unique look at the Sensorimotor lab in this video: 👉 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

Happy :) to be a co-author with @ninavanmastrigt, @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets and Bernadette van Wijk. Many, many circles & inspiration from all authors led to this paper on reward-based motor learning! preprints.org/manuscript/202… Poetic summary by Nina&me in the thread! #one_tweet_a_day

#VU_BW @Katinka3D, @JBJSmeets, Joyce Burgers en een fantastische groep studenten onderzochten in @NEMOamsterdam hoe succeskansen motorisch leren en #motivatie beïnvloeden. Kijk de video om te zien hoe dat ging! youtu.be/KK9H-qQFIrA?si…

Door onnadenkendheid is wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid soms niet meer dan schijnprecisie. Originele studie van @JBJSmeets over hoe leeftijd van proefpersonen systematisch een half jaar te kort gerapporteerd wordt. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If we apply the most popular method to the average age of a youth soccer team, we get a result (red) that differs from the actual mean (blue):

The responses to this tweet made it to the scientific literature in my paper on the bias and precision of reporting the average age (doi.org/10.1016/j.actp…).

Scientists have a peculiar way to report the average age of their human participants. They suggest they know this average with a few days precision, but introduce a half year bias. Read about it in my short paper doi.org/10.1016/j.actp… Thanks to all of you who answered my poll.

Mooi stuk over @AJCReuten haar promotie onderzoek van de afgelopen 4 jaar

Hofstadter on what Goedel, Escher, Bach was actually about:

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Please retweet! A question for those who have human participants in their research. How do you determine the age of your participants (with which resolution)?

This is an elegant experiment using a new task (grasping thin objects using a precision grip) to find out how grasping is controlled. The answer: "the digits-in-space hypothesis provides the most plausible account of the data". Worth reading!