With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

A couple of more hours to submit your work and register to attend! Deadline: today (Jan 8, 2026) anywhere on earth. 🌏 🌎 🌍 Do it here: survey.academiccloud.de/f/464284?lan... #interoception #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉 Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

Details: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

It’s getting serious! 🚀😊 Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social #vrcademicsky #vrresearch Stay tuned!

Preparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.

Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de

🔗 You can check out the preregistration and poster PDF here: osf.io/5ynzv/wiki?w... Stay tuned, pre-print out 🔜

Excited to present my poster at #SPR2025 and share our BBSIG pipelines “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 📣 POS085-2 🗓️ Oct 16, 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor @mbe-lab.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

The Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠 Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today @therealspr.bsky.social

With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc

Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I attended a workshop with @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social last year and I cannot recommend it enough: if you want to feel more confident in your Git skills, check the openly available materials and - if you have the opportunity - join a workshop 🔥🙌 #OpenScience

Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start? 🎮 Choose your character 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin 🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social

In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

👥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]