Dr. Michael Barnett-Cowan 🇨🇦

@UWaterloo Students! Our lab is always looking for opportunities to work with students from many disciplines to do the work we do. Some opportunities listed below. For example KIN391 is a research assistant position for course credit. Take it as an elective for any program!

@Astro_Erik @ID_AA_Carmack Yup gotta be in control to reduce sickness

@ID_AA_Carmack @multisensebrain

Last night, Trista was playing a third person 3D platformer game (Pumpkin Jack) and started to feel a little sick. I suggested cutting the max frame rate from 120 to 60 in settings, and that made it better. Simulator sickness tends to come from high quality rendering of smooth angle changes that you aren’t directly controlling. Skillfully playing an FPS yourself has your brain expecting every angle change, but a third person camera that is only loosely coupled to your actions can be a problem. Closely watching other people play can also be a problem. We first saw this after I got glQuake running on SGI hardware, and SGI invited us to their Dallas headquarters to try it out on a high end Infinite Reality system. A 3DFX could run 640x480 30 fps, but this system could run 1280x1024 60 fps. The room was dark, and I was playing the game on a big monitor at a quality we had never seen. Michael Abrash, watching behind me, got so sick he had to go sit down.

Researchers at @MIT, @Harvard, @MassEyeAndEar and @Columbia have developed a biocompatible microphone that could lead to cochlear implants that sit entirely in the ear canal, with no cumbersome external hardware. spectrum.ieee.org/cochlear-impla…

We are #hiring! Please share widely with your networks. The Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo is hiring 2 new #tenuretrack faculty positions: Neural Control of Mobility Human Cardiopulmonary Physiology uwaterloo.ca/health/employm…

@dcowiedurham @OscarSill @paulmjenkinson @ValeMoroUnivr @bodyrepnetwork Nice work! We did something related to this but not in children: brill.com/view/journals/…

New paper led by @ hayleydewe @OscarSill 🏃🏽‍♀️Visuomotor synchrony strongly drives body ownership and agency in 5 year olds. 💘SCR magnitude not affected. doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12… @paulmjenkinson @ValeMoroUnivr @bodyrepnetwork

Congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2024: Larry Abbott, @Sejnowski, and @HSompolinsky They have pioneered the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and have made seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s structure, dynamics, and the emergence of cognition and behavior. Read more about the winners and their contributions: lundbeckfonden.com/the-brain-priz… @columbia @zuckermanbrain @salkinstitute @UCSD @Harvard @HebrewU #TheBrainPrize2024 #ComputationalNeuroscience #TheoreticalNeuroscience

Today marks the launch of the Federal Open Science Repository of Canada - this is an important step forward in #openscience in 🇨🇦. Huge congrats to the departments and agencies who worked relentlessly to make this happen! 👏👏👏 open-science.canada.ca/home

Happy Holidays 🎄☃️

It’s okay to not be okay. If you need help, or if you know someone who does, please reach out by calling or texting 9-8-8. That’s the number for Canada’s new suicide crisis helpline – and it’s now available across the country, in English and French, 24/7.

Had a great time presenting mine and @multisensebrain’s work titled “Individual Differences in Cybersickness Development: The Role of Sensory Reweighting in VR” at #SfN23 @SfNtweets! Met a a lot of great people and talked cool science 🧠

Hey #SfN2023 be sure to visit mbclab.ca PhD candidate @Siyavashizadi tomorrow Sunday November 12 2-3pm where he will present our poster (board CC3) entitled "Individual differences in cybersickness development: the role of sensory reweighting in VR"

✈️ The Collaborative Aeronautics Program (CAP) introduces a groundbreaking fusion of graduate studies in aeronautics with the human-centered principles of kinesiology! 👉🔗 More info about the program in our LinkTree ➡️ linktr.ee/uwaterlookhs #UWaterlooKHS #aeronautics

Super happy to announce this latest mbclab.ca paper led by @AyshaBasharat entitled Virtual reality as a tool to explore multisensory processing before and after engagement in physical activity frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Today was fall convocation @UWaterloo, or as we call it in my family "silly hat day"! It was a privilege to hood our new graduates and see them off to all the awesome things they will do 🤘 Congratulations @uwaterlookhs @uwaterloohealth grads!

📢 CCCARE is recruiting student volunteers for Winter 2024! ❗If you are interested in getting involved, visit our Linktree and fill out the volunteer form by December 5th. 👉🔗 linktr.ee/uwaterlookhs Hope to see you next term! #UWaterlooKHS

@AnnaCiaunica @TimingForum Come see me at #26 🙂

@multisensebrain @TimingForum happy to meet today after the poster session; will be around

Excited to be in beautiful Lisbon for @TimingForum #TRF3 to give a talk Friday 9am in Symposium 12: Temporal and Multisensory Processing in Virtual Reality & a poster (#26) during Poster Session 3: When time tilts: The influence of body orientation on motion perception timing

Attention all #postdoc candidates! Apply for fully funded fellowships (December 1 deadline): uwaterloo.ca/gspa/postdocfu… Interested in sensory systems #neuroscience, #AI, #aviation, #VirtualReality, and/or #health #research? Join the mbclab.ca emailCV: mbc@uwaterloo.ca

@AnnaCiaunica @TimingForum Hi Anna. Absolutely. I don't monitor X as much as I did Twitter but let's connect. Happy to answer any questions.

@multisensebrain @TimingForum Hi there ! Would love to connect and hear more about your work.

@MGall1992 Congratulations Maria! Looking forward to all the new things you will get up to.

How it started, how it's going. After watching the graduation this afternoon, very happy to share the news that I have accepted a permanent lectureship at Kent!

@Siyavashizadi will be presenting his #csbbcs2023 poster today at #48 entitled THE ROLE OF SENSORY REWEIGHTING IN CYBERSICKNESS SUSCEPTIBILITY IN VIRTUAL REALITY