We've updated our preprint (Action-perception coupling x Interoception). - Minor clarity edits, refined statements, and an updated interactive Figure 3 that now runs directly in the browser ✨ 🔗 Figure: galvez-pol.github.io/bodily-rhyth... 🔗 Preprint (v3): osf.io/preprints/ps...

meanwhile: The evidence for constrained total energy expenditure in humans and other animals (Herman Pontzer & Eric T. Trexler). Curr. Biol. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Perceptual reaction times are coupled to the gastric electrical rhythm" By Marie Loescher, Nicolai Wolpert, & Catherine Tallon-Baudry 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Authors can now include video explainers in their papers with eLife! Take a look at our first example from @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social in ‘A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain’ buff.ly/LzvvVb9

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry ! Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach. #neuroskyence

Updated now with: 📣 keynote speakers confirmed (Carlos Velasco & Elisa Raffaella Ferre). See www.cip2026.com/speakers 🗓️ Tentative program.

Check below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome! join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)

Incredibly excited to announce I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for the project BodyCrave! This project tackles the bodily processes underlying alcohol and tobacco craving, from bench to bedside. #ERCStG

Just accepted 🎉 An integrative review on interoception and perception: Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes; perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation; neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies 🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM

Cooperation is a universal feature of complex systems, from the origins of life and microbiomes to societies. What universal patterns can be found in these systems? Here's our new @pnas.org paper. @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Save the date & call for symposia: XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS)  Estimados socios y socias: Nos complace anunciar que el II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS) tendrá lugar del…

*I just realised the short 🔗 to our preprint takes a few seconds to load, so here’s the full link instead: osf.io/preprints/ps... Plus, the interactive figure was accidentally saved as a private file 🤦; it’s now public. You can download it here and open it in your browser 👉 osf.io/ty3cw/files/...

My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all. Also it should go open access at some point www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk at City St George’s, Univ. of London I’ll revisit recent work on active sensing & interoception + present our new proposal on how interoceptive rhythms gate action–perception coupling 🧠 🔗 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... See you!

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

Check out our brilliant PhD student Hanlu He's @hanluhe.bsky.social 1st paper on heart-rate synchrony in real-world urban environments, replicated across 3 datasets recorded in NYC! HR sync is enhanced by social proximity, familiarity, social context, and better acoustic conditions. 🧵👇

Nice to be here again; see you in a bit fellows! 3.15pm I'll talk a bit on Interoception & Perception

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

How do thermosensory signals contribute to bodily self-awareness? Our review on this topic with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social has just been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! Grateful for the collaborations, the shared curiosity, and the scientific community pushing this conversation forward.

Kind of random, but I’ve started playing around with making and mixing music. Here is a track with some minimal edits that I quite like 🚀 👉 youtu.be/8jepoaoFpok?...

Where & how in the body do you feel political disgust? 
 What about hope? ..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?

 🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪

How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world Perspective by Shari Liu, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Joseph Outa & Minjae J. Kim Web: go.nature.com/3Xwo40J PDF: rdcu.be/eSMfa

New preprint 🎉 Living systematic reviews ensure evidence stays current osf.io/preprints/ps... In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake 🧵 1/8

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...

*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!

After a long time, I’ll be back in London Next Monday 8th Dec: I’ll give the ICN Seminar at UCL (3:15pm-Queen Square) Talk: Rethinking perception–interoception research through an ecological lens Hope to see some familiar faces there 💫 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Another cool study modelling shared somatosensory and visual representations during naturalistic video watching 👇 'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 "...support hypothesis that spontaneous spatially structured fluctuations in brain-wide physiology on timescales of seconds ... are in large part expressions of lowdimensional, organism-wide dynamical system" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Article: "An active-inference approach to second-person neuroscience" Coauthors: Konrad Lehmann, Dimitris Bolis, Leonhard Schilbach, Maxwell JD Ramstead, Philipp Kanske journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

🤖 Prominent AI scientists call for a halt to the “uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia” in an open letter. The authors of the position paper oppose… insist that “university leaders and administrators must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software” (sic).

This seems quite useful: "Which Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Indices Should I Use for Psychophysiological Research? A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Clusters of HRV Indices" (in Psychophysiology) doi.org/10.1111/psyp... 🫀

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This looks super cool; by @jtheriault.bsky.social By the way congrats really!

TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...

The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

Submissions will OPEN 30 October for the 2026 APS Annual Convention taking place in Barcelona! (Closing 5 December) #APS26BCN Learn more about the upcoming program and save the date www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

I did a small thing for the BBC on the remarkable increase in people listening to ambient music. Here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... and here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

4x días para aplicar a esta fantástica oportunidad, con @mbaborebelo.bsky.social al frente; check below the position! and please RT 🙏

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.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...

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

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our mobile lab is now ready 🚐!

How do perceptual processes contribute to the development of psychiatric illness? @skhalsa.bsky.social and I have compiled this volume with experts from across the world to begin to answer this question.

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv