👥An amazing team effort by: @fra-malandrone.bsky.social @lucyroe.bsky.social A. Ciston @thefirstfloor.bsky.social A. Villringer S. Carletto @michaelgaebler.com #neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports

Our studies confirmed AffectTracker is reliable, with high user experience and low interference. It opens new avenues for linking subjective experience to physiological dynamics. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub! #OpenScience

AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

🚀 Exciting news from our group! Our latest article on AffectTracker is now out 🎉 An open-source tool for capturing continuous, real-time emotional experience during immersive VR 👓 with intuitive feedback options and useful for bridging subjective reports with physiological measures. Links below 👇

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: evidence from a large-scale consortium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670843v1

EEG-decodability of facial expressions and their stereoscopic depth cues in immersive virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670974v1

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

🧠 One week left to apply for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Highly recommended if you’re looking for 1) a stimulating environment to deepen theoretical insight in neuroscience and 2) genuine time to think, exchange ideas, and join in-depth discussions. Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social

Join me! I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of **Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025** Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications www.wuertual.org

Does #interoception necessarily involve awareness of the inner bodily signals? 1️⃣ Yes 2️⃣️ No 📊 Show results

📰🗞️📢 Science Streets received this wonderful funding from Daimler and Benz Foundation for Innovative Science Communication! We are beyond excited to receive the financial support to make Science Streets a reality! News will continue! #scicomm #comics #neuroscience

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Congrats to our MBE colleague @agatapatyczek.bsky.social for this well-deserved award! ✨ We’re looking forward to seeing more of Science Streets in the wild soon! 📢

That’s a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025! @martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes 🫀🫁🧠 See you next year in Heidelberg!

Hope you’re rested and ready to take the last day of #PuG2025 with our final MBE contribution: @martager.bsky.social presenting her PhD work on how cardio-respiratory fluctuations shape action initiation and sense of agency 🫀🫁🧠 🗓️ Sat, June 21 | 09:00-10:30 📍 1.010 Z6

I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩 This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application. Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!

A big round of applause for all the presenters of today’s IGOR Symposium! 👏 what a great representation of open and reproducible science at #PuG2025 📢 And many thanks @ocklenburg.bsky.social and Christina Artemenko for organising!

Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies 👤🧠👓

We close off the second day of #PuG2025 with a talk by @michaelgaebler.com on enhancing face perception and realism of virtual humans in 3D and VR, across a series of behavioural and EEG studies. 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 14:30-16:00 📍1.010 Z6

Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR 👁️🕵️‍♀️ 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor) #PuG2025

Don’t miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.social’s poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease 🧠👓 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)

How Interoception Shapes Health and Disease via Social Stress and Loneliness: Revealing Underlying Mechanisms and Developing Novel Intervention Approaches will take place in 0.001 Z6 Schema Dependent Memory Formation: Cognitive And Neural Mechanisms will be held in 1.010 Z6 #PuG2025

Just wrapped up a fascinating talk by @aleksanpi.bsky.social on the embodied toll of social disconnection, showing how loneliness is accompanied by disrupted parasympathetic responses. Bravo 👏 📍Symposium “How interoception shapes health and disease via social stress and loneliness” #PuG2025

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

We hope to see many of you at IGOR Social Event tonight! Many from our group will be attending 👇

Our MBE group kicks-off #PuG2025 today with @aleksanpi.bsky.social’s Symposium talk. Don’t miss it! 🗓️ Thu, June 19 | 16:30-18:00 📍 0.001 Z6

We are excited to be headed to Würzburg for "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2025! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣 Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social

💬 IGOR Round Table 🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕛 12:00–13:00 📍 01.006 Curious about what IGOR is up to? Come hear about our current projects, connect with like-minded researchers, and find out how to get involved. New members welcome! [4/6]

🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium "Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research" 🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00 📍 0.004 @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]

IGOR is going to #PuG2025 in Würzburg! 🧠 @pug2025.bsky.social We’re bringing open science to the spotlight with a series of events throughout the conference. Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved! 🧵 Check the thread below for all IGOR events. [1/6]

Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing. My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it! @martager.bsky.social @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.

We were part of the annual retreat of the Department of Neurology at @mpicbs.bsky.social at beautiful Kloster Nimbschen this week 🧠🌿 A fantastic few days of science, discussion, and connection in an inspiring setting – and with exciting awards for our group!

We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social

This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part 🌍

The Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social continues: it’s our turn to present the fascinating research work from the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group on how hormonal dynamics interact with neural dynamics, cognitive processes and mental health 👩‍🔬🧠🥚

We’re at the Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social! This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠

IGOR Social Event Thu, 19.06, from 20:30 📍 Location tba 👥 Whether you are an IGOR member or wish to become one, join us for a relaxed evening of informal chats, networking, and a fun pub quiz - with prizes! 🏆 Contact us to register!

IGOR Symposium Fri, 20.06, 10:30-12:00 📍 Audimax Topic: Open Science initiatives in biopsychological research ♻️🧠 With @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social

Mark your calendars! IGOR is hosting exciting events at #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social 📅 IGOR Round Table Fri, 20.06, 12:00-13:00 📍 Raum 01.006 💬 Get to know current IGOR projects, connect with other open science enthusiasts, and learn how to get involved. New members welcome!

Attending #PuG2025 in Würzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social 🔍 More details soon!

There is still time to join the @pug2025.bsky.social pre-conference workshop "Multiverse Analysis for Neuroimaging" 🧠 Start navigating the “garden of forking paths” in fMRI & EEG! 📅 When? June 17 (9:00-18:00) & June 18 (9:00-13:00) Info about prices and regisration: pug2025.org/programm

📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025 We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking. ✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon! 🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io #XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource

🚀 Presenting EDIA, our flexible XR toolbox for research, at #VSS2025! Built in Unity + tested in real labs. 👁️ Bonus: we assess accuracy, precision & latency of eye tracking in 5 VR headsets using EDIA. 📍Poster 311 – Tue, 8:30–12:30, Banyan Breezeway. #XR #OpenSource #Unity3D

🧠🌱 New preprint from the IGOR Sustainability project! "There is no research on a dead planet" How can we balance neuroscience, open science, and climate responsibility? 📄 Read our position paper on OSF: osf.io/preprints/osf/rju75_v1

Did you miss the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025? The 🎥 recorded talks are now online at www.cbs.mpg.de/mbb2025 (via @martager.bsky.social) #MBBS2025

⏳ Only 11 days left for submitting your individual contributions (poster or talk) for @pug2025.bsky.social! If your work exemplifies open & reproducible science practices, don’t miss the chance to be considered for the IGOR Prize 🏆 simply check the box when submitting! 👉 pug2025.org/submission

A great resource if you’re working on interoception and body-brain interactions, especially to get you started when you’re new to Bluesky 👇