Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 13d

We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)

1 6 3

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 15d

'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

1 13 35

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 20d

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

www.sciencedirect.com

2 28 87

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 14

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

10 12 46

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Mariana Babo-Rebelo @mbaborebelo.bsky.social · 23d

📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!

I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.

2 7 13

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you're contemplating new study to start,
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.

1 5 11

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

2 79 230

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Aug 26

Do you want to simulate EEG/MEG but don't know where to start? Don't start with ChatGPT, start with *pip install meegsim*.
We (me and @willenjoy.bsky.social) have just released v.0.0.2. Our toolbox generates EEG/MEG using template waveforms with ground truth source activity.
meegsim.readthedocs.io

3 15

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

In addition, data and code for our citation diversity statement can be found here: github.com/liobaenk/cit...

GitHub - liobaenk/citation-diversity-tracking: Post-processing and visualising output from cleanBib, a toolbox that utilises gender-api service

Post-processing and visualising output from cleanBib, a toolbox that utilises gender-api service - liobaenk/citation-diversity-tracking

github.com

2

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Huge thanks also to Thomas Loesche, @liobaenk.bsky.social, Vadim Nikulin, & Arno Villringer for your invaluable support along the way :).

1

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you want to dive deeper, you can find the extracted data and analyses scripts here:
osf.io/znrbm
github.com/PaulSteinfat...

Systematic review of methods for analyzing heartbeat-evoked responses

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

2 2

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

You can find an interactive version of our figures here: paulsteinfath.shinyapps.io/her-systemat...
Preselect data in the “Data” tab to answer your own research questions!

Methods in HEP research

paulsteinfath.shinyapps.io

1 2

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

(1) Large diversity in methods
(2) Lots of missing info
(3) Most studies underpowered

Check Box 1 in our preprint to see what we recommend!

1 1 1

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:

1 14 22

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 31

The respiratory phase causally modulates the readiness potential amplitude https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.666697v1

2 4

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 11

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

1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No

📊 Show results

2 4 6

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

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

3 12

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you found out a paper with striking results,
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.

1 2 4

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠

We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.

In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn

1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!

21 39

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky

N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...

dx.plos.org

1 31 82

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

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

2 13 47

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Jun 14

So: be careful out there! Analyzing HEPs is super easy if you have ECG+i/M/EEG recordings, but without proper controls, other signals can lead to spurious results.

2

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Jun 14

In subjects performing an auditory oddball task, we found pre-stimulus HEPs to be related to: P300 amplitudes and reaction time speed. However, the effect disappeared when applying pseudotrial and surrogate heartbeat controls, revealing that overlapping activity was driving the HEP effect.

1 2

Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Jun 14

Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real?
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jun 13

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paul Steinfath, Arno Villringer, et al:

Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

1 10 16

Reposted by Paul Steinfath

Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our study on heart-brain interactions during attention orienting is finally out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Open access preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #heart-brain #brain-body #EEG #CogSci #cardiac #neuroscience
🧵⬇️

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Periods of focused attention on incoming sensory stimuli are associated with longer cardiac cycles, measured as an increase in the interbeat interval (IBI). We found that the heartbeat-evoked potenti...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

1 7 18