Dominika Radziun

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690447v1

How do thermosensory signals contribute to bodily self-awareness?
Our review on this topic with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social has just been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!
Grateful for the collaborations, the shared curiosity, and the scientific community pushing this conversation forward.

Amazing work, big congratulations @gerardosalvato.bsky.social and @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social!

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves As winter closes in, you might start to notice your fingers and toes freezing when you go outside, or your face flushing hot when you go into a heated building.

Thermal signals from the skin play a key role in bodily self-awareness, with warm touch enhancing our sense of body ownership and supporting emotional well-being. doi.org/hbdkj6

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis

@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Novel method for rubber hand illusion strength measurement based on inverse multidimensional scaling - Behavior Research Methods In the present study, we developed a novel self-report measurement method for the rubber hand illusion (RHI) strength based on inverse multidimensional scaling (MDS). In the preregistered study consis...

Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.

Linking White-Matter Development to Clinical Variation in Autism: Longitudinal Normative Modelling of FA in the EU-AIMS LEAP Cohort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690402v1

Scientific Reports

Adults can better access their early memories after embodying a childlike version of their own face, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4ohDtx4 🧪

Home - ESCAN 2026 ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu

Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.

More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - Neuroscience News A new study shows that humans possess a form of “remote touch,” allowing them to detect hidden objects in sand before making direct contact.

Our new study on remote touch .....✋
Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - neurosciencenews.com/remote-touch... @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone ✋
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The spatial reach of affective touch: a new perspective on social peripersonal space: https://osf.io/etvb6

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.

Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain

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This, this and this again again and again

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals Abstract. Blindness has been shown to induce changes in the structural and functional organization of the brain. However, few studies have investigated the

Excited to see this article out! Congratulations to Maria Czarnecka, @lenastroh.bsky.social, and the whole author team for this great piece of work!

Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals Abstract. Blindness has been shown to induce changes in the structural and functional organization of the brain. However, few studies have investigated the

Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @olicolli.bsky.social @lenastroh.bsky.social et al.

YouTube video by BrainPrize The Neuroscience of Brain Cancers

Neurons help gliomas grow. Discover how in the first #BrainPrize2025 webinar with @michellemonje.bsky.social and Frank Winkler - pioneering insights reshaping brain cancer research.

#braincancer #neuroscience #webinar

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Russian Unreality and American Weakness Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
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A dynamic causal inference framework for perception-action loops https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688198v1

Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...

Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published!

We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.

You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X

Musicians possess a superior internal map of their body in space A new study suggests that learning an instrument does more than teach melody. Researchers found that musicians have a superior ability to maintain their physical orientation and balance, even without visual cues.

Musicians possess a superior internal map of their body in space

📣We are excited to welcome @rssmith.bsky.social for our next CCP Speaker Series talk! Join us TODAY, November 21st, at 1pm EDT

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How can a simple game reveal the hidden computations behind empathy and social understanding?

Joe Barnby goes ‘Inside Discovery’ to discuss how deeply human questions can be explored through elegant, technical science.
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Felt Presence and Psychosis Risk in the General Population Abstract. Objective: Felt presence (FP) is the experience that another entity is present in one’s proximal environment, despite no sensory evidence. Occurrence of FP is linked to psychosis risk, but q...

@parkbmb.bsky.social Our paper 'Felt Presence and Psychosis Risk in the General Population' is available, open-access in Psychopathology! In this survey, distress during FP predicted high psychosis-risk, resilience was linked with FP frequency & vividness. Read more: karger.com/psp/article/...

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

Feedback is a skill we can learn and practice, just like science itself. Join us for an interactive workshop on giving/receiving feedback in academic life.

Thu 20 Nov 2025, 10:00–12:00
📍 Trigon, Red Room
More info & registration: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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