📢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.

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions! Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response! doi.org/10.1111/psyp... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

I've said it before, and I will say it again: It's astonishing how emotionally aversive revisions are, even in the best possible case (reviewers are positive and have very actionable remarks). Or at least that's how I work; if anybody has some good recommendations for coping, do let me know 😂

Our paper on persona effects in face-to-face social interactions between humans and #LLM-controlled virtual agents is now published in Computers in Human Behavior! 🗣️🤖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #VirtualReality #SocialInteraction #Human-AI #HCI #LLM

If you‘re working with XR in the context of research and happen to be at #PuG2025 – I suggest you drop by at my poster about our EDIA toolbox @ediatoolbox.bsky.social . Let’s chat, connect, collaborate. Not in the area? Check out the poster below and reach out digitally: edia-toolbox.github.io

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!

New preprint! Here we investigate sustained threat responses elicited by social contexts in #VirtualReality looking at: 🧠🌊 Neural Oscillations 🔊Fear potentiated startle 💦 SCL 🗓️Self-report All measures show successful fear learning by social contexts ✅

Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/sftu3

Excited about all #PUG25 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social posts coming in! Check out our symposium "The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive #VirtualReality" 🗓️Friday 14:30-16:00 @sabrinagado.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Marius Rubo @martandreatta.bsky.social

Our team is excited to be part of @pug2025.bsky.social [email protected] and @dgps.bsky.social in Würzburg this week! Please reach out and approach us if you want to chat or meet! We look forward to an inspiring conference! ✨ News entry with list of our contributions: tud.link/39nus1

Last pre-PuG rehearsal with critical mock audience 😄 Now fully prepared for our symposium on Friday ⬇️ #PuG2025

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 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]

Speaking of modeling the variability in reactions -- new Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Reaction in Social Dyads (MARS) challenge. Human-human dyadic interaction audio-visual-EEG clips of 23 speakers and 137 listeners. Audio, face, and EEG behaviours, 20 to 35min sites.google.com/view/react2025

New research on auditory distance perception in #VR We investigated effects of different visual environments and localization tasks doi.org/10.1109/TVCG... Work lead by Sarah Roßkopf (not on bsky) #VirtualReality #AuditoryPerception #MultisensoryIntegration #IEEE

Our social conditioning #VR study is now published in Behavior Research Methods: doi.org/10.3758/s134... More exiting projects with this paradigm soon to come #staytuned 😊

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Academic milestone achieved: Got invited to review my own paper! #AcademicSky

Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i

📅 Save the date! Our VRS is back in 2025, on October 20-21, with many news to it (the first one being the hackathon happening before the conference, on October 18-19). Stay tuned to not miss any of it 🥽 #VRSummit #VRS2025 #VRcademicSky #vrexperience #vrscience #vracademy #VRresearch

Excited to share our new paper on "neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial expressions" We used both EMG and EEG to study whether "sending" an emotional expression influences "receiving" doi.org/10.1093/scan... #SocialInteraction #EEG #psychscisky #neuroskyence

🚨New preprint 🚨 What are the neural systems of being mimicked? Do choice and motor mimicry have similar effects? And finally, where the social glue might be located in the brain? osf.io/preprints/ps...

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We offer a monthly sessions with personalized guidance from experienced researchers on all aspects of BIDS. Get your questions answered, learn best practices, and (finally) convert your data to BIDS. Next session: Friday, January 24th; 12:00 PM CET More info: juliuswelzel.github.io/igor_bids_co...

Emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. In our new paper in Psych Review (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...; with @oisinryan.bsky.social and @fdabl.bsky.social), we take a first step towards building a generative model for emotion dynamics based on this simple principle 1/4

Ryo, Misha, David and myself are organizing a workshop at #CHI2025 on *Everyday AR through AI-in-the-Loop*. If you are interested in topics such as adaptive AR, AR+AI Agents, or task guidance, consider submitting. We are looking for 1-2 pagers! Deadline is Feb 15th. xr-and-ai.github.io/

Does #VirtualReality need #VirtualAcoustics? We say yes! we found that binaural sound renderings improved both localization accuracy and social presence acta-acustica.edpsciences.org/articles/aac...

🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

Introducing PowerLMM.js! A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests. powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com Would really appreciate your feedback as I refine this app! Details below 🧵👇

🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎 face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just an unofficial heads up, VRS25 will be Oct 20-21 2025. @vrsummit.bsky.social

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

A starter pack I found missing 👓🖥️🌍🧠🩺 Immersive technologies - #VR, #AR, #XR, #spatialcomputing, #CG - for research (e.g., psychology, neuroscience) & medicine (diagnostics, therapy). go.bsky.app/E9bhHvQ Please let me know if you wanna be added - especially undergrad, grad, predoc researchers!

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain academic.oup.com/scan/article...

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

Great collection of the best R packages for data visualization #rstats #dataviz ℹ️ r-graph-gallery.com/best-dataviz...

New preprint! How do you engage in conversations with an #AI? We implemented a face-to-face social interaction in #VirtualReality where virtual humans were controlled by a #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.05653

Happy to share our new paper "Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability" with Matteo Sequestro, Jade Serfaty and Rocco Mennella, in Communications Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

As this platform grows, I thought I'd share a starter pack of #XR + #HCI researchers I've come across! This includes individuals exploring augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and related areas. Let me know if you would like to be added or have any recommendations! #VR #AR #MR

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and ChatGPT now all have freakishly human voices. So there was only one thing to do: Strap all the chatbots to a tripod, take it to a cabin deep into the woods and see if we could be... friends? My latest: www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

Starter packs are great, but they can only have 150 accounts on them. Check out my much larger list of Brain and Mind researchers here - and let me know if you would like to be added! #neuroskyence #psychscisky bsky.app/profile/mica...

Following the trend, here's a starter pack of EEG researchers: go.bsky.app/H2URVjv. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. The list is very partial and still needs to be expanded, but I hope you find it helpful! 🧠 #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence

loving the explosion of #XR contributors here! Please help me add a more focused starter pack for #medicalXR. who would like to be added? who should be added? from #neuroscience to #medicalEducation, #clinicalTrials to #spatialComputing and #healthcare #startups Please reshare 🙏

New preprint! How do you engage in conversations with an #AI? We implemented a face-to-face social interaction in #VirtualReality where virtual humans were controlled by a #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.05653

🎉 Very proud to share my first published PhD paper 🎊 With @gamerlab.bsky.social, @jannateigeler.bsky.social and the amazing bachelor students Kaja Kümpel and Madita Schindler, we investigated how trait social anxiety influences social attention in naturalistic situations 🌳🏡 doi.org/10.1080/1061...