Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

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.

Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere stroke. Lesion mapping reveals damage to parietal regions and interhemispheric disconnections 👉 buff.ly/cEGwaft

The sense of ownership and agency stem from proprioception, the sensory root of self-awareness. In a group of 46 right-brain-damaged patients, the disruption of a bilateral parietal network underlies proprioceptive deficits leading to ownership disorders and anosognosia for hemiplegia.

Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings | Nature Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025 🗣️Presenting Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University) #body #bodyrepresentation #computationalneurosciences

Day 1 of #EUCAS2025 is a wrap! We kicked off with our grant-writing pre-event, thanks to our amazing speakers: @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, Francesca Lionetti, Luca Rinaldi & @gerardosalvato.bsky.social for sharing insights. We closed the day, spirits in hand at the welcome reception. On to Day 2!

@davidecrepaldi.bsky.social at @eucas2025.bsky.social pre-conference event “Submit a grant: from funding opportunities to writing a project”

A comment on our recent study published in Nature Communications. Front Matter Discovery article just published in Temperature #temperature #termoception #bodyownership www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beautifully done! I’m reading it with great curiosity. Super @mattlongo.bsky.social! ✋🤙🫱

Very cool study!

📱🌡️👶 Even brief parental distractions (digital and non-digital) can distress infants. Using thermal imaging, we found unique stress responses when moms used smartphones instead of paper. Distraction matters, and the type of distraction might matter more. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper alert! In this chapter, part of a volume led by the late Bud Craig’s colleagues Alan Simmons, Marc Wittmann, and Irina Strigo, we opine on the role of the insula in interoception and body image processing in anorexia nervosa and other health conditions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40178772/

👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

Two days left to submit your abstract! (new deadline March 14th). Hope to see you all in Utrecht 🤚🧠

Open Access UCL Research: The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Brilliant talk by @stephforkel.bsky.social about the human disconnectome at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025 🧠

The symposium “Metacognition and social cognition: common ground or false equivalence?” organised by @smfleming.bsky.social is about to start! With @mkwittmann.bsky.social @vhsouthgate.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social #EWCN2025

A fantastic keynote lecture by Alfonso Caramazza at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025

🧵1/5 🌡️ #Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body #ownership🖐️, yet their role remains highly debated. In our new study, we test this assumption within the framework of pathological body ownership after right-brain #stroke🧠

I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU

I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo

Today, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration #Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using transposed Independent Vector Analysis in 212 individuals, we found that higher GM–WM concentration in a fronto-insular brain network correlates with higher #anger expression and lower anger control. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 Join the next #BRNet Seminar: 💭 Body and Self: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Neuroscience with @anatajadura.bsky.social & Adrian Alsmith. 📅 Jan 17, 2025 📍 Online 🎟️ Reserve your spot today: shorturl.at/nl3Ur #Body #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Research

We tested the relationship between 🫀 awareness and balance in 70 healthy individuals. We found that people with ⬆️ 🫀awareness were more stable during balance uncertainty 🤹 #interoception #balance www.nature.com/articles/s41...