Danny Leach

Psychology Lecturer at Bradford Uni.

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

Paper out! Learning and transfer in coordinated rhythmic movements. Click here for Andrew's breakdown!

[Andrew D Wilson is now @adw.bsky.social @PsychScientists]

New from the @CIA_Lab - the first paper from @rhythmicpsych's PhD on learning and transfer in coordinated rhythmic movements (OSF project here: https://t.co/AXdTekrrsk)

A brief thread on the paper...

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@GeirJordet @ShakeyWaits @DeJongFrenkie21 @GeirLippestad is there any evidence for an equivalent behaviour in the auditory domain? Such as, particularly active listening to inform scanning?

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@PsychScientists @ShakeyWaits @FuturePerform @CiaranToner Woah! Congratulations, Andrew. Exciting project and an incredible opportunity for someone.

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@Homoloquax1 @WiringTheBrain @PsychScientists @iktsuarpok89 So good 🤣

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@Homoloquax1 @WiringTheBrain @PsychScientists @iktsuarpok89 Also: https://t.co/ru55GTF1Y1

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@PsychScientists @Homoloquax1 @iktsuarpok89 @WiringTheBrain Someone took the term keynote a lite too literally

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@Homoloquax1 @PsychScientists @iktsuarpok89 @WiringTheBrain The *stars* were for you, just to make it easier for you to *understand*

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@DrGBuckingham Shame you didn't have your guitar handy to strum Em7 from top to bottom. What a tune!

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@DrGBuckingham @PsychScientists @Homoloquax1 @iktsuarpok89 @WiringTheBrain What about if you were on a panel where a student started whipping out the Lego mid exam? 🤣

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@TrishHolch @PsychScientists @StephenAtHome Cheers Andrew 🎉👍

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@johnywrites @matthewslocombe I'm afraid I don't really understand your question. Are you saying that your use of the word weird in everything other than the initial learning context is transfer? I just don't see how this is transfer at all. Isn't this just learning? What do we get by calling this transfer?

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@johnywrites @matthewslocombe Sounds a bit slippery to me. You're happy to accept anecdote when it fits with you're preconceived notion of transfer. My response seems to have been eaten by Twitter. I'll respond now.

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@johnywrites @matthewslocombe Rare as in, we don't find it where we think we'll find it. That's not quite the reductionist, grand sweeping statement that you're making out. But then you're quite happy to make your own generalisations regarding your anecdotal experience with language 🤔

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@johnywrites @matthewslocombe This isn't strictly eco Vs cog stuff. This is part of the rich history of psychology's attempt to understand learning. Those terms weren't part of Thorndikes vocabulary.

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@johnywrites @matthewslocombe Start with Thorndike's 1901 papers, work through to Schmidt and Young's work (1980s), see that there's been a modern resurgence in transfer, namely cognitive transfer (Perkins, 90s) and further interest and skepticism on sweeping claims made by brain training apps (Boot, 10s)

[Danny Leach @rhythmicpsych]

@FrancesBoreham You're missing the top hat! Your husband 👌👍

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@johnywrites @matthewslocombe 2nd language learning and your previous example are very different. Not all learning of 2nd languages are equal. Check out Thorndikes identical elements theory and his study of Latin!

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@jamesheathers I don't know if titles are a decent heuristic for quality being as we play the feed the algorithm game with our titles and abstracts. But hell, I'm not reading that paper to find out 🤣.

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@matthewslocombe @johnywrites If it's not spontaneous, is it really transfer? I always end up coming back round to the problem being definitional. Johnny put up those search results showing thousands of published articles on "transfer" in the last few years. I just don't see definitional consistency at all.