elisabetta versace

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A few of my favourite things: Peace - "War and peace" by Tolstoy - Evolution - Minds - Spacetime - Solaristics - Books

[QMUL Psychology @QM_Psych]

Exciting new research from @eli_versace about the strategic role of biases in guiding adaptive choice and reducing errors https://t.co/hpoTzsNpqA

[elisabetta versace @eli_versace]

Some coverage on our work on Remote touch
"Humans Share a Superpower With Shorebirds https://t.co/Fx5G2oQKQ7 "
Original paper https://t.co/fLrOnzcPgn
Youtube video https://t.co/bceL8myKnB

[Ahmet Bütün @CosmicMetaZ]

Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees To Understand A Form Of Morse Code How Bees are Rewriting the Book on Insect Intelligence Most importantly, recent research from Queen.... @CosmicMetaX #Bees

https://t.co/Wl7T7EM56u

[ScienceBlog.com @ScienceBlogTwit]

Bees Crack Morse Code And It Changes How We See Minds Today https://t.co/NmrWu6ZeWs

[ken crichlow @ken_crichlow]

https://t.co/uFQ4gwif0m

Bees learn to read simple ‘Morse Code’

Until now, the ability to discriminate between "dot" and "dash" has been seen only in humans and other vertebrates such as macaques or pigeons.

[Nous Aimons AIMer @HalbWiener]

Research shows humans have remote touch “seventh sense” like sandpipers , via @EurekAlert! @QMUL https://t.co/YaXJVONfBe

[Simply Neuroscience @simplyneurosci]

Today's #ResearchFeature explores our fascinating ability for “remote touch”🖐️ Read more about it below!

#SimplyNeuroscience #Neuroscience #Research #Study #Brain

[elisabetta versace @eli_versace]

some coverage of our work on time processing in bees!

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” https://t.co/q11cHV5G51
with #AlexDavison #AnitaOngLayMun #IshaniNanda @LChittka

[Taylor Gipple @gipple_taylor]

Study on remote touch: humans can detect objects in sand before actual contact

"It changes our conception of the perceptual world (what is called the  "receptive field") in living beings, including humans.” 

https://t.co/pluv5Jts7W

[elisabetta versace @eli_versace]

I liked to read this commentary and discussions about our work on remote touch in humans (and robots) https://t.co/ckWzAu1Out Thank you for your interest in our work https://t.co/fLrOnzchqP

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

Researchers at Queen Mary University and UCL just proved that humans have a seventh sense; a kind of “remote touch.” They put people’s fingers in sand, buried solid cubes underneath, and somehow the participants felt the cubes before touching them. They didn't guess. Not chance. Real, physical perception through a medium. I was like WTF? So, It means your body, this so called lump of meat is actually tuned far more finely than you’ve been led to believe. You are literally sensing the world beyond your skin.

The scientists explain it in mechanical terms: when you move your finger through sand, it sends out tiny pressure waves that bounce off hidden objects and come back as faint feedback your nerves can detect. You’re creating a vibration, an echo, and your body is listening to it, almost like sonar. That’s what sandpipers do when they forage under wet sand for buried crabs. They feel through the field. And now we know humans do, too. Our “touch” doesn’t stop at the fingertip; it extends into space, a few centimeters out, a soft invisible net always searching.

This isn’t nut bag shit. This is physics meeting consciousness. And it validates what mystics have been saying for a very long time. That awareness radiates beyond the body. Yogis call it prana, Taoists call it chi, the Vedas call it spanda, the subtle pulse of life resonating through all matter. Now modern instruments are just catching up, quantifying what was once intuition. If we can detect shape and density through sand, what else are we unconsciously picking up? Emotional tension in a room? The presence of another person behind us? The hum of an unseen field we’ve never been taught to notice? Everyone knows the feeling.

I think this kind of discovery marks a sort of turning point. It bridges ancient and modern; science proving the hidden side of the senses. It’s not telepathy yet, but it’s the same neighborhood. And we all know about the telepathy tapes right? Every signal, every wave, every piece of information is already moving through the same physical fabric. I think consciousness is medium itself, and the nervous system is just the instrument playing within it.

So call it remote touch, a seventh sense, or the first clue to something huge. We were never confined to our body. The line between body and world was always blurred. The only reason we stopped believing in subtle perception is because we stopped paying attention. And now, with science reluctantly confirming what the mystics already knew, maybe it’s time we admit it; awareness was never inside us. We were always inside it.

https://t.co/yy3ED9SdRf

[elisabetta versace @eli_versace]

@Yukito_Yamagami I wish I could understand your video :) , thank you for the interest in our work

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

Researchers at Queen Mary University and UCL just proved that humans have a seventh sense; a kind of “remote touch.” They put people’s fingers in sand, buried solid cubes underneath, and somehow the participants felt the cubes before touching them. They didn't guess. Not chance. Real, physical perception through a medium. I was like WTF? So, It means your body, this so called lump of meat is actually tuned far more finely than you’ve been led to believe. You are literally sensing the world beyond your skin.

The scientists explain it in mechanical terms: when you move your finger through sand, it sends out tiny pressure waves that bounce off hidden objects and come back as faint feedback your nerves can detect. You’re creating a vibration, an echo, and your body is listening to it, almost like sonar. That’s what sandpipers do when they forage under wet sand for buried crabs. They feel through the field. And now we know humans do, too. Our “touch” doesn’t stop at the fingertip; it extends into space, a few centimeters out, a soft invisible net always searching.

This isn’t nut bag shit. This is physics meeting consciousness. And it validates what mystics have been saying for a very long time. That awareness radiates beyond the body. Yogis call it prana, Taoists call it chi, the Vedas call it spanda, the subtle pulse of life resonating through all matter. Now modern instruments are just catching up, quantifying what was once intuition. If we can detect shape and density through sand, what else are we unconsciously picking up? Emotional tension in a room? The presence of another person behind us? The hum of an unseen field we’ve never been taught to notice? Everyone knows the feeling.

I think this kind of discovery marks a sort of turning point. It bridges ancient and modern; science proving the hidden side of the senses. It’s not telepathy yet, but it’s the same neighborhood. And we all know about the telepathy tapes right? Every signal, every wave, every piece of information is already moving through the same physical fabric. I think consciousness is medium itself, and the nervous system is just the instrument playing within it.

So call it remote touch, a seventh sense, or the first clue to something huge. We were never confined to our body. The line between body and world was always blurred. The only reason we stopped believing in subtle perception is because we stopped paying attention. And now, with science reluctantly confirming what the mystics already knew, maybe it’s time we admit it; awareness was never inside us. We were always inside it.

https://t.co/yy3ED9SdRf

[Traleck Dickson @5thStargate]

Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
https://t.co/kktdtMX8qI

[Adam Sweet @adam_sweet_]

Remote Touch https://t.co/VmiMf15WPg via @YouTube

[Adam Sweet @adam_sweet_]

A 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.
https://t.co/p73wsWGwLd

[George Hopkin 👾 @GeorgeHopkin]

Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers
https://t.co/H4SZl4ASdv

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

“Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study” by Elisabetta Versace et al. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning

https://t.co/VOrm6Ei6kZ

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them

Researchers have shown that humans can detect objects buried in sand before actually touching them, revealing a previously undocumented “remote touch” ability.

Participants sensed hidden objects by perceiving tiny mechanical disturbances in the sand as they moved their fingers.

This sensitivity matched physical predictions and even surpassed a robot’s precision, despite the robot sensing slightly farther distances.

The findings broaden our understanding of human touch and offer a valuable model for improving tactile robotics.

[elisabetta versace @eli_versace]

our new study on remote touch
Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - https://t.co/t0ZMXFandG via @neurosciencenew
with #ZHengqiChen @lauracrucianel1
#lorenzoJamone @eli_versace
@PreparedLab --> https://t.co/0VoFteHnlQ