Alex Winsor
@amwinsor1
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Evolution of eye movements, visual attention, & multi-eye integration. New tools for investigating spider brains & behavior. PhD Candidate @UMassAmherst he/him
Massachusetts, USA
Joined August 2020
In case you missed it! Check out our short article on jumping spiders.
January 2024 issue of @TrendsNeuro:. Free featured articles & more:. On the cover: 'Visual attention and processing in jumping spiders', by A. Winsor @amwinsor1, L. Remage-Healey @HealeyLab, R. Hoy & E. Jakob.
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RT @DeepaHRajan: Our paper on single-cell learning is now published in @CurrentBiology! .@WallaceUcsf .
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RT @kfrankelab: 65 years after Lettvin’s bug detector neurons in the frog retina, we revisit how the retina drives behavior—from reflexes t….
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RT @ManyMindsPod: New episode!! 🎙️📣 . A conversation w/ @TessaMontague about cephalopod camouflage. Cuttlefish and other cephalopods can….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away….
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In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
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RT @Keesey_IW: ✍️🧠🪰 New paper finally out! Neuroecology of alcohol risk and reward. Different neural pathways with opposite valence for the….
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RT @CoryMillerMarmo: New paper in @pnas led by @vickey17singh! We present an innovative head-mounted eye-tracking system to study vision i….
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Our understanding of how vision functions as primates actively navigate the real-world is remarkably sparse. As most data have been limited to chai...
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RT @bbo_lab: Freely chasing mammals, collab with David Fitzpatrick, we show how eye movements enable ferrets to simultaneously navigate and….
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Motion blur on the retina degrades vision acuity. How do visual systems of animals chasing prey solve this to retain acuity? Wallace et al. show that saccadic eye movements measured in freely...
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RT @MPINB_outreach: (1/3) Paper out in @CurrentBiology! How do predators use their vision to both navigate through the terrain whilst track….
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RT @NYULH_Neuro: This summer, the annual #CoNNExINS Symposium, cohosted w/ @NYU_CNS, is June 5-6!.If you are a senior #neuroscience grad st….
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RT @endairatena: Proud to share the Douglass lab latest work in @CurrentBiology , which demonstrates that the optically transparent #neuros….
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RT @MeitalOren: After a long wait, our paper is out! We show that differences in learning between the sexes are modulated by the NPY recept….
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Nature Communications - Experience-dependent decision-making is vital for survival. Here, authors uncover how the neuromodulator npr-5 regulates sex- and state-specific learning in C. elegans,...
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RT @MBLScience: Calling all neuroscientists! 🧠 The MBL's 2025 Neural Systems & Behavior course is accepting applications until February 1.….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: John Tuthill @casa_tuthill explains why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter and how this tradition helps r….
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RT @VolkerNehring: #Ants hold a grudge – they remember who attacked them and fight back harder against those enemy colonies! Our new paper….
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RT @Dandan63741: Happy to share our new publication! We found that spiders have super sensitive olfaction! Male spiders use their legs as “….
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The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...
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RT @mousejesus: Kicking off the new year with our new paper in @Nature! We find that touch-guided tongue control in mice relies on a colli….
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Nature - Touch-guided tongue control in mice relies on a collicular mechanosensorimotor map, analogous to collicular visuomotor maps associated with visually guided orienting across many species.
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RT @DanielKronauer: Today in @CurrentBiology: a Quick Guide to the wondrous and fascinating biology of the clonal raider ant:. https://t.co/….
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RT @LabPallas: Yay, it's finally out! This paper has been a long time in the making. The pandemic interfered with lab work in general, but….
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