Prepared Minds Lab
Exploring cognitive readiness at the interface between spontaneous and learned behaviours in animal models, humans and artificial intelligence... while enjoying the process
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- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabNew paper: Reflecting on the multiple biases and predispositions observed in young animals with no previous experience, we modelled a new idea on the strategic role of biases to guide adaptive choice and reduce errors: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Fantastic collaboration with @debivort.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabBirds = model to study embryonic responses to environmental stimuli. check @subbaprakrit.bsky.social ' preprint, where we show "Programming of Embryonic Blood Brain Barrier and Neurovascular Transcriptome by an Anticipatory Acoustic Signal of Heat in the Zebra Finch" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabOur new pre-print shows how unsupervised clustering methods can identify biologically meaningful differences in early vocal production, with no human feedback. @antorrisi.bsky.social has led this interdisciplinary collaboration based on computational methods + #chicks 🐣 arxiv.org/abs/2601.12203
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- Here's what our researcher on positive psychology @rosiedavis.bsky.social has to say about working with dancers for her Positive Balance project!
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Lab“The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI” features our work on #time processing across species ournarratives.net/the-stopwatc... (the front image is not accurate but there are other images in the article) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
- and now you have your chance to speak to @robynroachneuro.bsky.social today at #ASABwinter2025 while she presents her poster on early motion detection in chicks!
- don't miss @alexdqm.bsky.social's poster [11] at #ASABwinter2025 to discover more about time processing in insects "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terretris"
- Here’s a short introduction from our research assistant, Hamza Arifo, at our Sky Garden outing. @ha1705.bsky.social
- At HAIR (Healthcare Applications of Interactive Robotics) workshop hair-robotics.github.io/workshop2025... @elisabettaversace.bsky.social has presented our work on #remoteTouch See here all speakers of this inspiring event organised by #IldarFarkhatdinov and #JoshuaBrown
- Prepared Minds Lab at the launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Psychology
- Take a look into the positive balance project run by our researchers @rosiedavis.bsky.social and @jieyinghuang.bsky.social! This research places focus on teaching individuals how to identify character strengths and positive emotions - a step towards establishing better mental health environments.
- A productive training session led by Michaela Egertova! Here Hamza, Robyn, and Dr. Versace work together to image a stained chick cerebellum, building essential skills in brightfield microscopy. @ha1705.bsky.social @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #brightfieldmicroscopy
- Our work on time processing in bees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... @qmulse.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social ... and videoclip explanation youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?...
- Here: a bee trained to discriminate between long and short duration by @alexdqm.bsky.social @ishaninanda.bsky.social #AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org cc @larschittka.bsky.social sky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Lab1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration! Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code. Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabHumans have remote touch ‘seventh sense’ like sandpipers, research shows 🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Overview of the experiment setup for tactile detection in granular media. (a) Human experiment setup, showing a participant finger…
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabHumans can detect objects buried in sand before direct contact, demonstrating a form of remote touch similar to that seen in certain shorebirds and expanding the known range of tactile perception. doi.org/g99kpf
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabHumans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabA study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have. soundcloud.com/sweetsongspr...
- Our new study on remote touch .....✋ Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - neurosciencenews.com/remote-touch... @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone ✋ --> 📹 youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
- our inventor @antorrisi.bsky.social with poster on #VocalEcho: Closed-loop system for vocal interactions #BioDCASE at 12:21 CET (11.21 UK time) 🐥 🔀 🤖🎈 Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025... @c4dm.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labin Italian: Do insects feel pain? www.ilpost.it/2025/10/13/i... it covers also @preparedmindslab.bsky.social work in collaboration with @larschittka.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... , www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Prepared Mind Lab was proud to attend the official launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour (CBB) at QMUL. A brilliant step forward for collaborative brain and behaviour research, we're excited for what's next. #PreparedMindLabs #Neuroscience #WellbeingInnovation @queenmarycbb.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabWhat a bird neuroscience meeting today! Uwe Mayer gave a fab talk , @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @antorrisi.bsky.social and @juechen.bsky.social delighted to have him and Andrea Gaede at @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabSuch a pleasure to present the current #PositiveBalance work developed in collaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other key collaborators at QMUL, English National Ballet School and Royal Ballet School for the Linda Hamilton Symposium at #IADMS2025 in Las Vegas. #DancerWellbeing
- Don't miss our @rosiedavis.bsky.social Presenting #PositiveBalance at the Hamilton Symposium #IADMS2025 #Dance #Wellbeing www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mG...
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabCongrats to @rosiedavis.bsky.social & the Positive Balance project team, chosen from 100+ applicants for the Linda & William Hamilton Dance Wellness Symposium! Rosie will receive a travel grant to attend the 35th #IADMS Annual Conference in Las Vegas next week #DancerWellbeing #PositivePsychology
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labyes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press! "Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises" How do you like our visual abstract? 🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛ nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Lab#ICDL2025 Don't miss Zhengqi Chen @zhengqichen.bsky.social on 16 Sept at 11:45 "Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study" @ieee-icdl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabCome and see me and my poster ‘Positive Balance: a psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology’ at the #IEPA15 on Wednesday at 1pm. You can find me at poster board 114. #PositivePsychology #EarlyIntervention
- well done Rosie @rosiedavis.bsky.social !!! very proud to see you making new connections and showcasing the science done in colaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other collaborators!
- You can find me at poster number 63 at 2:30pm #ECDP2025
- Don't miss @rosiedavis.bsky.social Positive Balance: a short psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology #ECDP2025 #posterSession2 14:30-15:30 European Conference on Developmental Psychology
- brilliant experimental day for all the @preparedmindslab.bsky.social team today, and in particular for @antorrisi.bsky.social , @juechen.bsky.social and #chick_12 , who found new feedback systems very engaging! stay tuned for more details...
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabOur team has two fully-funded @MitacsCanada Globalink Research Internships for Summer 2026. Application deadline: 17 Sept 2025 Apply at: bit.ly/3UZw8Wj More about our team here: bit.ly/4mHxlgY Details of projects: bit.ly/3JfaTNM Please RT! 1/3
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labmissing our #tortoise 🐢 studies? our new preprint here: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" with @silviadamini.bsky.social , me and #gionataStancher at #SperimentArea #reptile #social #testudo
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labour first work on #danceScience and #cognitiveLoad out as a preprint! "Enhancing dance learning by reducing cognitive load: A preregistered study on the effect of dancers’ viewing perspective and expertise" osf.io/preprints/ps... co-led with Manuela #Angioi , with great collaborators worldwide
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labinteresting study on ravens' mobbing shows plasticity of antipredator behavior across offspring development! Led by alumna @silviadamini.bsky.social at Bugnyar lab ! link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-01976-9 🪶 👍 #womenSTEM
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labexciting transatlantic collaboration with @debivort.bsky.social to develop and model how multiple innate biases can support adaptive decisions when newborn animals (and next AI?) have multiple soft biases osf.io/preprints/os... . Feedback welcome: check our preprint! 🐣 🤖 🐝 👾 🧮 🐑
- This week for QMUL's #FestivalofEducation, the fantastic masters student Jane O’Sullivan presented a poster on #PositiveBalance using #PositivePsychology and #DigitalTechnologies to support adolescent wellbeing ⭐ @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @jieyinghuang.bsky.social @rosiedavis.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabFlybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
- Some recent work of our lab on the origins of cognition / knowledge . We leveraged early skills of 🐣 to understand how minds learn, generaliae and solve the problem of induction www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- for the #mentalHealthAwarenessWeek our Brilliant @rosiedavis.bsky.social and @jieyinghuang.bsky.social present #PositiveBalance, a positive psychology programme to promote wellbeing in young dancers! 🎥 🎈🩰 ✨😀 🤗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mG... @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social
- The #chick 🐣 @preparedmindslab.bsky.social is back! Here @antorrisi.bsky.social @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and @juechen.bsky.social at the end of the first day of data collection in the newly refurbished lab. Collab @emmanouilb.bsky.social + #kasparAlthoefer #QMUL
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Lab2/2 I will discuss also 🐣 newborn #gravity expectations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... and newborn crossmodal matching royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... please join us at 10:00 Gran Ballroom at @cnsmtg.bsky.social and contribute to the discussion!
- Reposted by Prepared Minds Labour #CNS25 @cnsmtg.bsky.social Symposium 31 March at 10:00. "Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems" With #GabrielKreiman @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @tomerullman.bsky.social #JuditGervain #MargeLivingstone 👶 🐣 🐀🐒 🤖 🖥️ 1/2
- Alex and Robyn had an amazing day engaging the children of Wapping High School in the fascinating world of animal behaviour! @asabeducation.bsky.social #nationalscienceweek #animalbehaviour #outreach
- Robyn Roach @robynroachneuro.bsky.social Alex Benedict Davidson @alexdqm.bsky.social Charlotte Evans @asabeducation.bsky.social. @queenmarycbb.bsky.social
- Reposted by Prepared Minds LabWhat a great day at Wapping High School. Fantastic support from Robyn and Alex of QMUL @preparedmindslab.bsky.social scientists. There were lots and lots of engaged young people, who were absolutely as clever as crows!
