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...
25.09.2025 07:43 β π 49 π 20 π¬ 0 π 1
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...
π’Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! π²πΉοΈπ
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.
23.09.2025 10:20 β π 41 π 14 π¬ 2 π 2
The Bodyβs 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...
π§ π« New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:
Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer π₯ & the brain as the singer π€ keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8β15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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12.09.2025 08:20 β π 15 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do
04.08.2025 09:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
07.07.2025 19:58 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 1 π 3
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 𦡠off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
21.06.2025 11:21 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 0 π 2
Thatβs 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 π«π«π§
See you next year in Heidelberg!
21.06.2025 09:24 β π 26 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
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 π€π§ π
20.06.2025 15:45 β π 19 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, donβt miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals π«π«π§
20.06.2025 12:34 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability π§
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
20.06.2025 09:41 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR ποΈπ΅οΈββοΈ
ποΈ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
π2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
20.06.2025 06:30 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Donβt miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.socialβs poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease π§ π
ποΈ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
π2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
20.06.2025 06:28 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
12.06.2025 16:39 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social
03.06.2025 13:55 β π 18 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part π
03.06.2025 08:56 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0
Attending #PuG2025 in WΓΌrzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social π
More details soon!
22.05.2025 21:15 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Tools and Software
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
30.01.2025 06:25 β π 37 π 16 π¬ 1 π 2
We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments π¬ #PuG2024
28.05.2024 10:23 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 1 π 3
Check out my longer posts on Substack (mostly detailed tutorials about data science and LLMs). mikexcohen.substack.com
Explore my video-based courses and books β sincxpress.com
Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain
Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022
Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
HUGERA is an ERC-funded Project that brings together philosophers, social scientists, and geneticists to study and foster an ethically sound science of human variation. To know more, please visit hugera.org
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in motivation, cognitive control, decision making, learning and inference and neuromodulation by dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline.
she/her pronounced Ya'elle, not like the university. Comp cog neuro, feminist, activist, mom. Stop the war NOW. End the occupation. Equality will bring security.
PhD candidate at Princeton Psych. Studying mental health, technology, reinforcement learning, language. He/they π³οΈβππ·π΄
Philosopher/cognitive scientist. PhD Fellow @ Bochum/Lisbon, Resident Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition. Learning, decision-making, and control in biological and artificial agents.
Co-founder @nonneuralcognition.bsky.social
Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
Facilitating global collaboration in the computational sciences.
neuromatch.io
Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg.
http://schucklab.gitlab.io/
π¨πΏ postdoctoral scientist at Schuck Lab in Berlin | studying brain, uncertainty and learning | past π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ @Caltech and @UniofOxford | π§π΄ββ€οΈ |
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, PI of Mental Health Neuroscience Lab, science writer βοΈπ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446402/the-balanced-brain-by-nord-camilla/9780241545799
Lab led by Julia Sacher at MPI CBS in Leipzig, Germany !
- studying sex hormones, emotional well-being & cognitive health across the lifespan
https://www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/neurology/cognitive-neuroendocrinology
Professor, LAB lab, University of Oslo π³π΄
Pleasure, pain, opioids.
Affective Brains.
President @S4SNeuro.bsky.social.
Twin mum.
www.affectivebrains.com
self-touch, emotions & interoception
language in psychosis & BPD
@mpicbs.bsky.social & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
MD & PhD canditate | former fulbright @vanderbilt
she/her
We investigate the interplay of bodily rhythms, brain activity, and behaviour in health and disease. Located at the University of MΓΌnster. PI: Daniel Kluger.
phenomenal experience, altered states, interoception-exteroception, VR
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | PhD
Philosopher of science working on concepts, experiments, multiscale modeling and societal issues in neuroscience and climate research.
Currently assistant prof @ Bielefeld University, Germany
website: philipp-haueis.de
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - on leave as a Simons Pivot Fellow. Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Clinical and Affective Neuroscientist at UCL. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
