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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health

Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 13d

I attended a workshop with @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social last year and I cannot recommend it enough: if you want to feel more confident in your Git skills, check the openly available materials and - if you have the opportunity - join a workshop 🔥🙌

#OpenScience

Lennart Wittkuhn @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social · 13d

Feeling *gitty* about this fall with two exciting workshops on Version Control with Git for Scientists coming up @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @rtg2660.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de! ✨

Sounds interesting? Check out my website, where I share course materials: lennartwittkuhn.com 💫

#OpenScience #Git

Dr. Lennart Wittkuhn | Home

Research Data Scientist

lennartwittkuhn.com

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start?

🎮 Choose your character

👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin

🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social

Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 13d

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 14d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 13d

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 14d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states

Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

👥An amazing team effort by:
@fra-malandrone.bsky.social
@lucyroe.bsky.social
A. Ciston
@thefirstfloor.bsky.social
A. Villringer
S. Carletto
@michaelgaebler.com

#neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

Our studies confirmed AffectTracker is reliable, with high user experience and low interference. It opens new avenues for linking subjective experience to physiological dynamics. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub!
#OpenScience

GitHub - afourcade/AffectTracker: AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality - afourcade/AffectTracker

github.com

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢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.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 15d

🚀 Exciting news from our group!
Our latest article on AffectTracker is now out 🎉

An open-source tool for capturing continuous, real-time emotional experience during immersive VR 👓 with intuitive feedback options and useful for bridging subjective reports with physiological measures.

Links below 👇

Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢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.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 26d

A team effort from the pens of @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com ✍️

Many thanks also to the young reviewers who read our work and raised such amazing questions! 🌟

#neuroskyence #scicomm #interoception
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 26d

🧠🫀 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
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

www.frontiersin.org

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 19

The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: evidence from a large-scale consortium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670843v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 20

EEG-decodability of facial expressions and their stereoscopic depth cues in immersive virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670974v1

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Aug 5

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 14

Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

www.wuertual.org

XR-Meeting Würzburg

October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25

www.wuertual.org

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠 One week left to apply for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Highly recommended if you’re looking for 1) a stimulating environment to deepen theoretical insight in neuroscience and 2) genuine time to think, exchange ideas, and join in-depth discussions.
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social

Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 14

Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

www.wuertual.org

XR-Meeting Würzburg

October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25

www.wuertual.org

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 11

Does #interoception necessarily involve awareness of the inner bodily signals?

1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No

📊 Show results

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Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · Jul 7

📰🗞️📢 Science Streets received this wonderful funding from Daimler and Benz Foundation for Innovative Science Communication! We are beyond excited to receive the financial support to make Science Streets a reality! News will continue!

#scicomm #comics #neuroscience

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

www.nature.com

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 21

Congrats to our MBE colleague @agatapatyczek.bsky.social for this well-deserved award! ✨

We’re looking forward to seeing more of Science Streets in the wild soon! 📢

Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!

Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!

More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 21

That’s a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025!

@martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes 🫀🫁🧠

See you next year in Heidelberg!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hope you’re rested and ready to take the last day of #PuG2025 with our final MBE contribution: @martager.bsky.social presenting her PhD work on how cardio-respiratory fluctuations shape action initiation and sense of agency 🫀🫁🧠

🗓️ Sat, June 21 | 09:00-10:30
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 18

How do heartbeat and breathing shape our sense of control over our movements? 🫀🫁 @martager.bsky.social will explore how internal bodily rhythms guide voluntary action initiation and shape the resulting sense of agency.

📆 Sat, June 21 | 09:00-10:30
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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Jun 20

I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩
This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application.
Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 20

A big round of applause for all the presenters of today’s IGOR Symposium! 👏 what a great representation of open and reproducible science at #PuG2025 📢

And many thanks @ocklenburg.bsky.social and Christina Artemenko for organising!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies 👤🧠👓

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