Research Update New Paper: Do Digital Hugs Work? (2023-08-09) Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we were led to social isolation, restricting some from physical touch and social gatherings. 09 August 2023
Research Update New Preprint: The Energetics of Locomotion (2023-07-11) Dr. Andrés Mejía presents a biomechanical framework for studying human and animal movement across the landscape in his latest preprint on bioRxiv. 11 July 2023
Research Update New Preprint: Reviewing Neurophenomenology (2023-07-05) Dr. Tom Froese and ECSU Research Intern alumnus Jon Sykes take a critical look at neurophenomenology’s revolutionary ambitions in their recent preprint on PsyArXiv (in French). 05 July 2023
Research Update New Preprint: The Neolithic in Lower Central America (2023-06-12) Dr. Andrés Mejía presents a meta-analysis of the Neolithic Transition in Costa Rica and Panama in his latest preprint on SocArXiv (in Spanish). 12 June 2023
Research Update New Paper: Introducing Irruption Theory (2023-05-02) Dr. Tom Froese recently published "Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity" in the journal Entropy. 02 May 2023
Research Update New paper out! (2023-02-02) Natalya Weber recently presented and published her work in IEEE. Most research on the self-optimization model has focused on network sizes on the order of a hundred nodes. 02 February 2023
Research Update New preprint out! Brains and bees! (2022-10-31) Ivan Shpurov has been working with bees and he presents his latest work in this new preprint which suggests commonalities between neural activity in the brain and collective behaviour in honey bees. 31 October 2022
Research Update Participating in the 28th EAJS symposium Dr. Froese will participate in the 28th East Asia Joint Symposium on Biomedical Research organized by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies at the Shanghai Tech University. 26 October 2022
Research Update September's birthday celebration (2022-10-05) This month, our unit celebrated the birthday of two members, Yi-Shan and Eric. Perfect occasion to highlight their project in the unit. 05 October 2022