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Thrilled to share some news! 🎉📷 Don't miss my #poster tomorrow. I could not be at the conference for unforeseen circumstances but feel free to email me with all your questions! - via #Whova Event Platform
@therealspr.bsky.social

“Added value” 🙄

Luigi (@luigi_micillo ) truly touched my🫀by citing me in his PhD thesis acknowledgments 🥹 From that conference to now, it’s been a wild journey — and this is just the beginning! Wishing him all the best, both as a researcher and the amazing person he is 🫶🏻 Let’s crush the PhD defense now!

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Stress 1 min 29 sec video

✨ 🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Antonio Maffei, @fiorelladpc.bsky.social & Salvatore Frisina

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I’m really grateful to my supervisory team @skhalsa.bsky.social @micahgallen.com & Gioia Bottesi for the precious support throughout and for helping me refine my insights for the proposal, let’s keep fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
#MSCAActions

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

#MSCAPF call closed and number of applications is huuuge this year😱
I’m happy with my proposal and, as ⁦‪Sahib Khalsa‬⁩ said “every grant submission it’s worth celebrating the opportunity to articulate the best version of your science”

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/node/1463

Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors for their brilliant contributions to this work 🙌👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
@francafranchini.bsky.social Giulia Buodo & Carmen Belacchi

Take-home message: promoting self-regulation capacity + active lifestyles may help students resist unhealthy temptations and maintain balanced nutrition.

But here’s the twist: higher HRV and regular physical activity were linked to less junk food and more fruit/veg intake 🌿✨

Unhealthy foods triggered stronger pleasantness, arousal, and craving compared to healthy options 🍔🍩 > 🥦🐟

Frontiers | Nutritional habits, inhibitory control, and emotional reactivity to healthy and unhealthy food cues in non-obese female students: insights from heart rate variability BackgroundResearch shows that the nutritional habits of university students do not follow the national recommendations. While most studies have focused on th...

🧠🍎 New study alert!
Among female university students, emotional reactivity and self-regulation (measured via heart rate variability, HRV) play a key role in shaping food choices.

👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
@frontiersmedia.bsky.social

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

More news on interoception and time perception!

🧵5/5 These findings highlight the distinct roles of cardiac interoception and activity in explicit and implicit timing, emphasizing their nuanced contributions to time perception.

🧵4/n Better interoceptive accuracy sped up responses in the implicit foreperiod task. Higher interoceptive confidence led to worse performance in time bisection. Cardiac vagal tone influenced self-paced tapping in explicit timing tasks.

🧵3/n In Study 1, participants (N = 31, M = 23.1 years, SD = 3.23) completed an implicit timing task (foreperiod) and an explicit timing task (time bisection). In Study 2, participants (N = 51, M = 22.6 years, SD = 1.52) performed an explicit timing task (self-paced finger-tapping).

🧵2/n Interoceptive accuracy was assessed using a HCT. Interoceptive sensibility was measured using the Body Perception Questionnaire and subjective confidence ratings (0–9 scale) provided during the HCT. Resting HRV served as an index of cardiac vagal control.

🧵1/n We examined how cardiac and interoceptive signals shape time perception. Implicit and explicit timing were tested via foreperiod, bisection, and tapping tasks.

In the heart of time: investigating the link between cardiac activity and interoception in explicit and implicit timing Recent research suggests that our sense of time is influenced by interoceptive abilities. Efficient access to bodily signals, measured objectively (in…

🎉 Happy to share our latest paper on #Physiology&Behavior @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Together with Luigi Micillo, Nicola Cellini and Giovanna Mioni we explored the link between cardiac #interoception and time perception
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Excited to chair @micahgallen.com 's fantastic seminar this Wednesday, June 25th at DPG! 🧠🫀 Join us in 📍 Room 2C, PSICO2 building. Don’t miss it! 🚀
#UniversityOfPadova #DepartmentOfGeneralPsychology

Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots Large language models like ChatGPT can lie to elicit approval from users. This phenomenon, called sycophancy, can be detected in state-of-the-art models.

Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots - NN/g
Def worth a read #AI #chatGPT #sycophancy #generativeAI

www.nngroup.com/articles/syc...

Who says department retreats can't be fun? 😄Here's a glimpse of our latest retreat—full of laughter, learning, and meaningful connections. #TeamBuilding #GrowthMoments #dpgunipd Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova

🙏 A huge thank you to the amazing research team supporting me throughout this journey: Giovanni Mento, Nicola Cellini, Antonio Maffei, Gioia Bottesi, @micahgallen.com

🎉 Thrilled to give the very first talk on my latest line of research at Prof. Paola Sessa's Lab Meeting today! 🧠✨ A precious opportunity to get feedback 💬 on the project I’m developing for my forthcoming #MSCA application 🚀

Frontiers | Web-based assessment of dual-task costs at different ages: an analysis across cognitive domains IntroductionUnderstanding the trajectories of cognitive aging provides important insights that might also be potentially useful for the early detection of co...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Thrilled to share ANOTHER PAPER OUT in @frontiersin.bsky.social with Vincenzo Livoti, Giulio Contemori, Silvia Saccani & Mario Bonato! 💥🧠
Check it out here 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#Psychology #Research #CognitiveScience #AcademicTwitter 📚✨

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT x2! 🚨
#NeuroDev latest manuscript "Adapting cognitive control to local–global implicit temporal predictability: A lifespan investigation from 5 to 88 years old" is just published on
#APA_journals #PsychologyAndAging

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Attentional load impacts multisensory integration, without leading to spatial processing asymmetries - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Attentional load impacts multisensory integration, without leading to spatial processing asymmetries

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
"Attentional load impacts multisensory integration, without leading to spatial processing asymmetries" just published on #ScientificReports @natureportfolio.nature.com
w/ Maria Silvia Saccani, Giulio Contemori & Mario Bonato
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🍬

We found that:
1️⃣ Motivational contexts shape adaptive cognitive control in 4–7 y/o children
2️⃣ CC adaptation profiles predict everyday behavioral difficulties (parent-reported)

#NeuroDev
#DevelopmentalPsychology

5/5 A huge thanks to my co-authors and to all the participants. Special credits go to Marco Destro for his assistance in recruiting participants and connecting the team with local organizations based in Padua.