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Kelsey Perrykkad

@kperrykkad.bsky.social

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(she/her) Cognitive Scientist, Postdoc at Monash Centre for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health. Interested in sense of self | matrescence | autism | active inference

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · May 9

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰
Check it out: rdcu.be/dHja6
#psysky #psychology #reprosky #🧠

Graphical abstract for the paper. The top panel shows findings that compared to never been pregnant peers, women pregnant for the first time show more body estrangement, more often feel out of control, more body visibility, greater attractiveness, femininity, pride, confidence and poorer learning. The bottom half of the figure depicts changes by trimester such that the first trimester is associated with a dip in sense of self, the second trimester shows consolidation so that the self is stronger in pregnant women than non pregnant peers and a relative return to baseline by the third trimester.

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · Dec 29

While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · Dec 29

This work follows from our earlier analysis of embodied active inference & the role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in prenatal development

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · Dec 29

'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)

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Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development

The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 30

Welcome to Bluesky!

Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 26

#ACNS2024

Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 26

So proud of our student, Nav, who successfully presented at a conference for the first time today!

Sharna Jamadar @sharnajamadar.bsky.social · Nov 26

Navyaan Siddiqui presenting our latest #ParentalBrain research @acnsau.bsky.social. This was Nav’s first conference presentation and he smashed it 🤩

- with @kperrykkad.bsky.social @trevorchong.bsky.social #MonashPsych #MonashBiomedicalImaging

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 22

I’d love to be added, thanks for creating the list, Micah!

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acnsau.bsky.social @acnsau.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello world! Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is on bsky! #ACNSnews

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · Nov 19

Please add alt text to your images on this platform!

Hunter D Phoenix 🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hunterdphoenix.bsky.social · Nov 18

I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here.

For those of you who forget:
Did you know there’s a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it won’t let you post image without Alt-text.

Thanks 🙏😎

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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is now on Bluesky: @acnsau.bsky.social. And just in time for our annual conference in Newcastle next week! #neuroskyence

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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · Nov 18

A theory for understanding the origins of basic sensorimotor agency (how we learn to interact with the world) based on heart-brain interactions in utero. With @corcorana.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’d like to be added please! I do mostly behavioural cognitive science but like to do neuroimaging when I can!

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Nov 16

Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one!

Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’d love to be on the list, but can’t make it to the conference this year - can’t wait to see all the updates here 🤩

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 17

What a great idea! Would love to be on the list.

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · May 29

Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development - new preprint on the implications of rhythmic visceral dynamics for the development of self, agency, & diversity, by @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social osf.io/nvj45

Image depicts physiological and environmental signals experienced by a foetus within the womb of a woman sitting at a park bench

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · May 9

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰
Check it out: rdcu.be/dHja6
#psysky #psychology #reprosky #🧠

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Dec 21

#psychscisky

Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Dec 21

Our new systematic review is out now! Agency In schizophrenia and autism - check it out: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Agency in schizophrenia and autism: a systematic review

Previous research suggests that altered experiences of agency are an underlying vulnerability in both schizophrenia and autism. Here, we explore agency as a potential transdiagnostic factor by conduct...

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 29

Aww thanks @quining.bsky.social - interested parties can check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · Nov 3

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach -- Lovely first paper from M3CS's Tom Darling

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach - Synthese

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional state that is adaptive an...

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 2

Yes absolutely!! It is really hard to find good, readily available images of pregnant women (stereotypes abound) but I take the point and you’re totally right!

Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 2

#neuroskyence #psychology #PsychSciSky #ReproSky (I promise I’ll get the hang of this platform one day…)

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 2

I have been alerted that the link in this bsky post isn’t functioning! See the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · Nov 2

Special shout out to my star PhD student @rebeccanineill.bsky.social - this paper will likely be her first academic publication!