Marie Loescher

Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding | PNAS Internal bodily signals, notably the heartbeat, influence our perception of the external world—but the nature of this influence remains unclear. Di...

My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all.

Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

03.12.2025 09:35 — 👍 75    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1

Stylized logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!

01.12.2025 07:28 — 👍 35    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 3

Imagined movement increases the segregation of brain-heart networks Understanding the mechanisms of motor imagery, the mental simulation of movement without execution, is key for the development of neurotechnologies. For instance, for detecting covert motor intent in ...

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

04.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence

13.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 60    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 0

Bravooo Tahnée! So excited for you!

17.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After initially being place on the reserve list, my Academy Research Fellowship has now received a positive result from the Research Council of Finland 🥳 Next year I will be starting my own team where we will work on identifying new interoception-based treatment targets for mental health disorders!

17.11.2025 07:16 — 👍 52    🔁 4    💬 10    📌 0

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

30.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 100    🔁 37    💬 7    📌 4

Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation | Degrowth Journal

"Calls for transforming academia have multiplied over the past decade. These include demands for a change in how the university responds to the climate crisis, how it engages with its colonial past &present &how it is governed [with]calls for truly democratic governance" @ferracimo.bsky.social et al

16.07.2025 10:35 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Loved presenting our Brain-Body tutorial🫀🫁🧠 at #ASSC28, great initiative & brilliant talk from @brainandstomach.bsky.social & awesome talks as always from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social & @marieloescher.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the conference!

06.07.2025 13:45 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1

28.06.2025 00:15 — 👍 15    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0