This Thursday at 3:30pm (📍HS 15) at #PuG2026 come hear about our six-week pilot study using autogenic training to teach people how to voluntarily control cardiac signals, based on Verschooren et al. (2026) 🫀 with @samversc.bsky.social @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com

📢 So beyond happy to say that I'll finally start my PhD at @neuromadlab.bsky.social led by @nbkroemer.bsky.social. 🤗 The doctoral position is with second cohort of @irtg2804.bsky.social (International Research Training Group 2804). Looking forward to this new phase and learning new things.

Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper. Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use? In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this. doi.org/10.1111/psyp... 1/

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

🚨New Publication!🚨 When doing research with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), it is important to consider one major potential confound: retinal phosphenes. They may affect your data significantly, which is what we discuss here! doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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

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!

biased because I just saw Diego Bohórquez give a very impressive talk but any of his work on gut-brain connections (e.g. www.science.org/doi/full/10....)

Been thinking for a few years about what I call the *replication ceiling*: the maximum replicability of an effect given constraints in data in which replication takes place (power, measurement error, sampling variability, etc). This leads to a maximum theoretical replicability which can be achieved.

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

Today, I teach the (graduate) kids about long-term memory. I'm bringing along my 3D print of HM's brain, made from post-mortem histology. #neuroscience

📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social): Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.

This is a very nice cross-species articulation of findings and challenges in body-brain and brain-body processing. Recommended reading for anyone interested in dipping their toes into this broad and rapidly developing area!

Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms www.psypost.org/scientists-d... Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅: x.com/OwenGregoria...

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

📢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.

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Passed with minor corrections! Thanks to my family for their support, to @drmlfil.bsky.social and @saraslt.bsky.social for their wonderful supervision, and to all the PPI contributors. Thanks to Dr Rebecca Brewer and Dr Helge Gillmeister for a great viva conversation! #interoception #autism #sleep

Long-term ECG data have great potential to expand research into diurnal variation of heart rate variability, beyond short-term measures of resting state. Data processing, however, is labor intensive. Led by Maximilian Schmaußer, we compared the performance of open-source tool boxes 1/2

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

🧠🫀 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]

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025

This is an incredible tool for visualizing real-time activity of internal organ system dynamics in zebra fish - I trust it’s only a matter of time until we see a suite of “functional body connectivity” papers during various interoceptive perturbations… #interoception

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

👉 In this trial (RT = 458 ms), how should we count fixations and compute total fixation duration on the target image? What’s the most correct way for these three cases? Curious how others handle this in their analyses! #EyeTracking #Methods #OpenScience #Psychology

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems. I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

Facing the Wall

📢 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

Title: "AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality" @toninfrc.bsky.social 📍 A04 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Discover AffectTracker – a versatile tool for continuous real-time tracking of affective states in iVR!

Title: "Differentiation of Neuropsychological Post-COVID Symptoms using Heart Rate Variability" Mia Neubauer 📍 A25 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Can HRV offer a window into post-COVID cognitive impairment and fatigue?

Title: "Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation" @martager.bsky.social 📍 B23 📆 Monday, March 10th, 19:30-20:15 Does syncing with our heartbeat influence our sense of control over actions and their outcomes?

How to manage working - running experiments, writing paper and PhD applications of parallely?? Any suggestions

Interoception feed can now recognize emoji's🧠🫀 and 🧠🫁 bsky.app/profile/did:... You can use any of the these terms to make your posts appear in feed: interoception, brain body, brain heart, brain-body, brain-heart

What does Raven's SPM even measure? Would you expect any difference in SPM scores between groups with good socio-economic status v/s poor socio-economic status or with exposure to good schools? #psychology #statistics

A lack of motivational drive is common in depression. Can we use vagus nerve stimulation to boost invigoration in patients with MDD? Our new preprint shows tVNS-induced gains in Session 1 that are largely maintained. Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social #neuroscience 🩺 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

On Aphantasia, Imagery, and Embodiment: New paper out this week in Nature Reviews Psychology, with Emiko Muraki and Laura Speed: rdcu.be/dj7UQ

I need to make an interactive/ animated video explaining some concept. Does anyone know open-source tools/softwares to make TED style with videos with voiceover. Any help is appreciated :) #psychology #neuroscience open science #academic

How do you switch from external to internal worlds? Hippocampus anyone?? doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

Most underrated link to understand and teach statistics and perception. I've used this many times as a student and still come back to it for e.g. while doing visual angle computation elvers.us #CogSci Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience

The MIT Press announces the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, a paradigm shift in open access reference works #Neuroscience #Psycholinguistics #Psychology

This just blew my mind 🤯 : "The sea floor near Australia’s Casey station in Antarctica has been found to have levels of pollution comparable to those in Rio de Janeiro’s harbour." (!!) www.scientificamerican.com/article/anta... 🌍🧪

interesting mechanisms for integration of bodily rhythms and cognitive processing of interoceptive signals www.nature.com/articles/s41... #interoception