Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
@nataliepeluso.com
PhD candidate studying perception of naturalistic facial expressions across lifespan | Former opera singer | Interested in multimodal communication (vocal/facial) & MSI, affective breathing, interoception 🫁🫀
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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
@nataliepeluso.com
· Jun 18
Do Naturalistic Emotional Facial Expressions Catch Our Eye Like Posed Ones?
We know that people tend to notice emotional faces—like smiling or angry expressions—more quickly than neutral ones. But most research showing this uses “posed” faces: actors in a lab deliberately sho...
link.growkudos.com
Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐
This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8
This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
Australian brussel sprouts are next level - vegetables here just never know when to stop 🤣
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Australian brussel sprouts are next level - vegetables here just never know when to stop 🤣
Ooh Tasmanian apples and elderflower make a yum spritz - feeling Christmassy now!
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ooh Tasmanian apples and elderflower make a yum spritz - feeling Christmassy now!
this seems problematic for claims of increased brain activation
fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
December 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
this seems problematic for claims of increased brain activation
This is indeed bizarre - using forks is super clever. The reflections on the tynes and the handles makes it tricky to judge whether they're lying concave/convex, so the purple towel seems both closer and further away! But once I saw it, it stuck.
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it?
(OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
(OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is indeed bizarre - using forks is super clever. The reflections on the tynes and the handles makes it tricky to judge whether they're lying concave/convex, so the purple towel seems both closer and further away! But once I saw it, it stuck.
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
Disruptions in This Sixth Sense May Drive Mental Illness
Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Using brain lesions and DNN models, this article suggests that human visual perception is modulated by language.
Combined evidence from artificial neural networks and human brain-lesion models reveals that language modulates vision in human perception - Nature Human Behaviour
Vision–language deep neural network models better explain human visual cortex activity than vision-only models. Damaging brain connections between visual and language areas reverses this pattern, suggesting that human visual perception is modulated by language.
www.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Using brain lesions and DNN models, this article suggests that human visual perception is modulated by language.
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
New preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
Auditory representations of words during silent visual reading
Silent visual reading is accompanied by the phenomenological experience of an inner voice. However, the temporal dynamics and functional role of the underlying neural representations remain unclear. H...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
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
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
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
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
Missing my Bluesky fam! I've been on the road driving the east coast of Australia the past few days on my way to Tasmania for Christmas.
I'm sitting in Lakes Entrance finishing an abstract over coffee before heading to Melbourne. More photos coming soon!
I'm sitting in Lakes Entrance finishing an abstract over coffee before heading to Melbourne. More photos coming soon!
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Missing my Bluesky fam! I've been on the road driving the east coast of Australia the past few days on my way to Tasmania for Christmas.
I'm sitting in Lakes Entrance finishing an abstract over coffee before heading to Melbourne. More photos coming soon!
I'm sitting in Lakes Entrance finishing an abstract over coffee before heading to Melbourne. More photos coming soon!
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
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/...
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding | PNAS
Internal bodily signals, notably the heartbeat, influence our perception of the external
world—but the nature of this influence remains unclear. Di...
www.pnas.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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/...
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
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 💪
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 💪
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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 💪
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 💪
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
This shall cleanse your timeline and defrost even the most cynical of Wednesdays! 😍
This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This shall cleanse your timeline and defrost even the most cynical of Wednesdays! 😍
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Excited to share a new article of mine on menopause, drawn from my on-going research in clinical psychology. I argue it’s a major developmental transition on par with puberty, shaped by culture as much as biology. Grateful for anyone who takes a look! www.zmescience.com/feature-post...
We've Been Getting Menopause Wrong. Science Shows It's a "Second Puberty" For the Brain
Menopause is a developmental and neurological transition that opens the door to new forms of insight, stability, and leadership.
www.zmescience.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Excited to share a new article of mine on menopause, drawn from my on-going research in clinical psychology. I argue it’s a major developmental transition on par with puberty, shaped by culture as much as biology. Grateful for anyone who takes a look! www.zmescience.com/feature-post...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
In an excerpt from his new book, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social details how meeting @davidpoeppel.bsky.social upended his understanding of speech processing in the brain and led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/language/wir...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/language/wir...
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Hickok provides a detailed overview of the research into the circuits that control speech and language. In this excerpt from Chapter 5, he shares how meeting his colleague David…
www.thetransmitter.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In an excerpt from his new book, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social details how meeting @davidpoeppel.bsky.social upended his understanding of speech processing in the brain and led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/language/wir...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/language/wir...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆
First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social
Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social
Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Prof. Mac Shine, 2025 Winner of the Early Career Investigator Award — OHBM Communications
Writer: Ashley Tyrer Editor: Audrey Luo, Alfie Wearn Video Editor: Xuqian Michelle Li
www.ohbm-com.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆
First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social
Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social
Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals
Abstract. Using the voice to produce sound is a widespread form of communication and plays an important role across diverse species and contexts. Variation
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Cardiac-vagal rhythm echoes on the heartbeat’s mechanosensory imprint in the brain - Communications Biology
Vagal-driven heart rhythm fluctuations modulate the heartbeat strength sensed in the head, linking cardiac rhythms to brain mechanosensation. These findings highlight vagal tone’s role in shaping brai...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Reposted by Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊
Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements".
with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht
www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...
with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht
www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements".
with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht
www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...
with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht
www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...