Andrew Corcoran

'Why the polyvagal theory is untenable. An international expert evaluation of the polyvagal theory and commentary upon Porges, S.W. (2025). Polyvagal theory: current status, clinical applications, and future directions.'

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NYAS Publications From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework ...

Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development

From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Diagram showing four phases of methodological research (Theory, Exploration, Systematic Comparison, Evidence Synthesis) with an arrow indicating that preregistration usefulness increases from early to late phases. Each phase lists its aim, elements, outcome, and an example from factor retention research.

Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies?
This question has sparked a lot of debate.

▶️We* work through the why, when, and how
▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value

📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The Impact of Non-Neural Sources on Aperiodic EEG Activity

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

there's no 'deciding to act' in predictive coding (let alone self, consciousness, wisdom, etc etc)

Wow!! Kanzi ❤️

it's not about predictive coding

A copy of "The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing" by Jakob Howhy on a plain background. The cover features a simple one-line illustration of a profile of a character painting a line that stems from their foot.

Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Preprint altert 🚨

**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry !

Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach.

#neuroskyence

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...

Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

No evidence for the modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase
osf.io/preprints/ps...

FDA guidance on Bayesian clinical trials
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/15/f...

I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.

Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals - Nature Neuroscience Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping our understanding of the ev...

Infra-slow brain rhythms found in sleep in lizards, humans, rats and pigeons!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats @antbergel.bsky.social!

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨

Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache

Illustration: Ana Yael.

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as in autonomy is necessary but not sufficient for agency. see the paper I linked

with the free energy principle :)

Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action - Xabier E. Barandiaran, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Marieke Rohde, 2009 The concept of agency is of crucial importance in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and it is often used as an intuitive and rather uncontroversial...

lots of discussion of these concepts in enactivism, where (as I understand it) autonomy -- read as something like self-preservation or autopoiesis -- is a condition of agency
e.g., doi.org/10.1177/1059...

Infra-slow (<0.1 Hz) modulation of human brain pulsations in awake and sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.692942v1

Our group has been looking at beta bursts for the last 5 years, but we do it a little differently than most - we group into types them based on their waveforms. In this open access article we lay out why and what we think this might mean
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#neuroskyence

Modelling time-resolved electrophysiological data with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models Providing utility functions for fitting Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models (BGAMMs) to time-resolved data (e.g., M/EEG, pupillometry, mouse-tracking, etc) and identifying clusters.

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/
#rstats #brms #EEG

Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…

Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!

Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

I'm happy to share my debut as first-author with the recent publication of our article in #JNeurosci:

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️

New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.

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!

“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said.
Hold our EEGs!

@dreamteamicm.bsky.social is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne!

We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea!

@institutducerveau.bsky.social

When your heart isn’t in it anymore: cardiac correlates of task disengagement - Communications Biology Multimodal analysis of spontaneous attentional state dynamics during sustained task performance reveals distinctive profiles of brain–heart interaction in mind-wandering and mind-blanking.

nice... our preprint was recently published in Comms Bio, btw :)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...