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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 1d

Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...

Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health

Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...

www.psypost.org

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 15d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16d

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society

socialaffectiveneuro.org

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16d

📢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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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 17d

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

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Peter R @petermryan.bsky.social · 19d

Passed with minor corrections! Thanks to my family for their support, to @drmlfil.bsky.social and @saraslt.bsky.social for their wonderful supervision, and to all the PPI contributors. Thanks to Dr Rebecca Brewer and Dr Helge Gillmeister for a great viva conversation! #interoception #autism #sleep

Diagram with handwritten notes relating to sleep, interoception and thermoregulation.

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Julian Koenig @koeniglab.bsky.social · 24d

Long-term ECG data have great potential to expand research into diurnal variation of heart rate variability, beyond short-term measures of resting state. Data processing, however, is labor intensive. Led by Maximilian Schmaußer, we compared the performance of open-source tool boxes 1/2

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Niket @niketag.bsky.social · 22d

Very interested, emailing :)

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 27d

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

www.thetransmitter.org

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28d

🧠🫀 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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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 29d

Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is an incredible tool for visualizing real-time activity of internal organ system dynamics in zebra fish - I trust it’s only a matter of time until we see a suite of “functional body connectivity” papers during various interoceptive perturbations… #interoception

Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · Sep 8

Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Sep 7

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Niket @niketag.bsky.social · Sep 1

👉 In this trial (RT = 458 ms), how should we count fixations and compute total fixation duration on the target image?

What’s the most correct way for these three cases? Curious how others handle this in their analyses!

#EyeTracking #Methods #OpenScience #Psychology

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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?

In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Jun 1

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems.
I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

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Allison 美林 Chin @allisonchinart.bsky.social · May 20

Facing the Wall

Painting of a scuba diver before a huge wall of fish

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EDIA @ediatoolbox.bsky.social · May 20

📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.

✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io

#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Title: "AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality"
@toninfrc.bsky.social

📍 A04
📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30

Discover AffectTracker – a versatile tool for continuous real-time tracking of affective states in iVR!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Title: "Differentiation of Neuropsychological Post-COVID Symptoms using Heart Rate Variability"
Mia Neubauer

📍 A25
📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30

Can HRV offer a window into post-COVID cognitive impairment and fatigue?

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Title: "Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation"
@martager.bsky.social

📍 B23
📆 Monday, March 10th, 19:30-20:15

Does syncing with our heartbeat influence our sense of control over actions and their outcomes?

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Niket @niketag.bsky.social · Oct 12

velocity, acceleration should be interesting to discuss, but how in context of cognitive science. It mostly relies on
v = u + at
v^2 - v^2 = 2as
s = ut + 1/2 a(t^2)

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