Kami Koldewyn

Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Bangor University, loves neuroscience, gardening, singing, music, and animals - not necessarily in that order

[Jean-Remy Hochmann @JR_Hochmann]

New paper out!
We identify a building block of the Language of Thought in infancy: thematic roles (agent, patient).

More on @ljuba_pi's thread below.
@ISC_MJ @BabyLyon11 🧵👇

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Goodbye #ECVP2024 and Aberdeen -- we've had a grand time and seen a lot of great science. Last photos from the farewell party and cèilidh at Union Kirk. Molly Hewitt and Mae Bernard seen dancing here - it got much busier later!

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

(Most) of the Bangor crew gathers after the final (excellent) keynote talk of #ECVP2024. Guest appearances from former Bangorians @DrMadgeJackson, Corinna Haenschel, and Charles Leek. @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Molly Hewitt, presenting her work with Simon Watt in the last poster session of the conference: "Visually guided grasping in tool use: movement planning takes into account changes in tool orientation". #ECVP2024 @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Filip Durovic, presenting his work with Paul Downing at #ECVP2024: "Measuring the speed of action recognition". Special guest appearance by former Bangorian and current collaborator Patric Bach (now at Aberdeen). @PsychBangor @BangorUni @actpredictlab

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Joshua Matthews presenting his work with Ayelet Sapir at #ECVP2024: Attention facilitates three-dimensional shape from shading. @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

The symposium at #ECVP2024 on "Reproducing reality: What is needed to build displays that pass the "visual Turing test"?" included a diverse set of talks from varied viewpoints and was a great success. Co-organised by Simon Watt @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Mae Bernard did a stellar job presenting their work with @paulrauwolf, @Neweyances, and me at #ECVP2024: "Do we judge robots like humans when they give us incorrect information?" @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Paul Downing, presenting a poster on "Visual encoding of social interactions in body-selective human brain regions" at #ECVP2024. @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Great poster from @mariolapeca with Ayelet Sapir at #ECVP2024: "Investigating the effect of hemispheric dominance on perceptual bias in 3D shape-from-shading: Evidence from left-handers". Special guest appearance from former Bangorian Charles Leek. @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Paul Aiken, presenting his PhD work with Paul Downing at Bangor at #ECVP2024. In presenting "The perceptual integrality of sex and age: understanding the functional organisation of face processing" he had both great data *and* a fancy presentation. @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Bangor Psych's Simon Watt, presenting his poster "Intuitive visuomotor control of grip force in a (simulated) body-powered prosthesis?" at #ECVP2024. @BangorUni @PsychBangor

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

@DeianMitev presenting his poster "Representation of Sex from the Face and Body: Evidence from a Visual Adaptation Task" at #ECVP2024, talking to what seemed like 100s of people. @BangorUni @PsychBangor

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Pleased to give a talk in a great line-up of talks in the Social Perception session this afternoon at #ECVP2024. @BangorUni @PsychBangor

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

The Bangor crew enjoyed opening night at #ECVP2024 @BangorUni @PsychBangor

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

@RobertsonNeuro @Chris_I_Baker @Nancy_Kanwisher @sbaroncohen Hooray! Congratulations -- very well deserved. 😀

[Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] @Nancy_Kanwisher]

Check out this cool paper by Alex Mitko , Ana Navarro-Cebrian, @SarahCormiea and Jason Fischer using correlation of abilities across tasks to infer the existence of a distinct cognitive system for intuitive physical reasoning:
https://t.co/NVLBp4vnTv

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

The project used converging methods, including TMS and fMRI, to look at visual sensitivity to social interactive information. Great fun to work with a great team of researchers! @ljuba_pi @Marco_Gandolfo @AbassiEtienne @BalgovaEva & Paul Downing.

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Well, we didn't get the cover - but our article in @CurrentBiology (https://t.co/qqHsLDoY7g) is in print today and even has a nice commentary from Emel Kükük & David Pitcher (https://t.co/a8Geg8YjWJ) @YorkPsychology! @PsychBangor @BangorUni

[Kami Koldewyn @gnomicbrain]

Having now completed the 'Becoming Social' grant @PsychBangor, it is so very nice to consider all the great projects - and all the excellent researchers - this ERC starting grant let me engage with. So many thanks, @ERC_Research!

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

Humans are social creatures. But where do our roots of social understanding come from?

Kami Koldewyn @BangorUni investigates the behavioural and neurobiological systems that support complex social perception. 🧠

👉 https://t.co/fNUhq8F94S

@gnomicbrain https://t.co/LbI87kJZjs