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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 22h

Builds on the ideas introduced by teammates in this Science Robotics perspective piece:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy

To prevent AI agents from making harmful decisions, they may need embodied, vulnerability-driven artificial empathy.

www.science.org

Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 22h

May our work benefit all (kinds of) beings.

Our new preprint argues that vulnerability and mortality are features, not bugs, for agents that adapt and provide care.

Now on Arxiv > CS.AI:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07117

With Christov-Moore, Juliani, Kiefer, Reggente, Rousse, Safron, Polani, and Damasio.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 11d

How so?

Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 14d

#neuroskyence #hyperscanning

Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 14d

Pre-print here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10650

Conventional hyperscanning metrics capture synchrony but miss network reconfiguration, limiting mechanistic insight. Our approach opens that door.

Full toolkit coming end of this year.

arxiv.org

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 14d

On a Geometry for Interbrain Networks

Discrete Ricci curvature + entropy can reveal phase transitions and information routing in social neural dynamics.

Accepted to the 4th NeurReps neurreps.bsky.social workshop at NeurIPS neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025.

With Noah Guzmán & mweber.bsky.social.

Small‑world network rewiring example (p from 0→1) and FRC curves; entropy and quantiles show a transition near p≈10⁻².

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Aug 8

Meet the committee here: www.philandneuro.com/steering-com...

This year at @ispsm.bsky.social, all three of us will be presenting!

I’m in the same block as David talking about hyperscanning, and Danielle will be closing a symposium on realism in neuro.

A great preview of what is to come!

STEERING COMMITTEE | SPAN

www.philandneuro.com

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thrilled to join the Steering Committee of the Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience ‪‪@socphilneuro.bsky.social

I’ll contribute to shaping next year's conference with a fantastic team led by Danielle J. Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social and David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Embodied Cognitive Science Unit @ecsu.bsky.social · Jul 18

ECSU's @nicohinrichs.bsky.social just posted an update on his paper on 'Geometric Hyperscanning of Affect under Active Inference' on Arxiv!

Make sure to check out his collabo. with @mahault.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Yuyue Jiang, Leonardo Christov-Moore, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social

Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599

#neuroskyence #hyperscanning

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Embodied Cognitive Science Unit @ecsu.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hello, world! At the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit @oistedu.bsky.social in gorgeous Okinawa, we explore life and mind in terms of agent-environment interactions and do so via haptics, hyperscanning, and artificial life.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jul 7

As someone who is already living their Monday morning: my head is slightly hurting at the mere thought of allocating this much analog patience space or so.

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Kathrin Kostorz @kathrinkostorz.bsky.social · Jun 23

Our latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠

Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback

Abstract. Social interaction is of fundamental importance to humans. Prior research has highlighted the link between interbrain synchrony and positive outcomes in human social interaction. Neurofeedba...

doi.org

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

Building on great work such as @konlehmann.bsky.social's Active Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience!

bsky.app/profile/konl...

Konrad Lehmann @konlehmann.bsky.social · Nov 18

"An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience" now officially published in Perspectives on Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social

Together with @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/1745...

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

@markthornton.bsky.social would you mind adding me? Thanks!

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

By embedding inter-brain networks in a geometric manifold, co-regulation is pinpointed at a granularity which IBS metrics smooth away.

Scaling from infant-caregiver to therapeutic alliance in interpersonal-psychiatry, we turn the dyad into the most meaningful unit of analysis.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

We treat affect as the expected free energy of self-relevant prediction errors, with a temporal aim that tiles past and future into a unified generative model.

Rupture --> repair --> reattunement appear as phase transitions and the FRc entropy acts as a surprisal gauge of them.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599

#neuroskyence #hyperscanning

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · May 5

Got to meet @davidchalmers.bsky.social and wonderful peers at the inaugural meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and Philosophy @socphilneuro.bsky.social at @washu.bsky.social

Go, MCCCs!

#SPAN2025

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Frances Jiang @jfrances.bsky.social · Mar 12

Please check out my first published paper!

A Theory of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias in Major Depression, by Yuyue Jiang, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology.

journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...

Frontiers | A theory of the neural mechanisms underlying negative cognitive bias in major depression

The widely acknowledged cognitive theory of depression, developed by Aaron Beck, focused on biased information processing that emphasizes the negative aspect...

journal.frontiersin.org

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · May 2

@jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social at @socphilneuro.bsky.social on the need of a psychopathological turn past the pre-paradigmatic heterogeneity of explanations of mental health disorders via a metatheoretic analysis towards a coherent and integrated framework built atop a taxonomic space of theories.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · May 1

Hats off for the lineup and orga. to the Chair of the Organising Commitee @okaydaniellle.bsky.social from @washu.bsky.social!

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · May 1

John Krakauer killing off Simulation Ideology for the 1st annual meeting of @socphilneuro.bsky.social!
@pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan?

Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today.

Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Apr 22

Got it! Looking forward to checking it out :)

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Apr 22

Doesn't seem to be working (?)

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