Kelsey Perrykkad

While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity

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This work follows from our earlier analysis of embodied active inference & the role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in prenatal development

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Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …

'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)

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A theory for understanding the origins of basic sensorimotor agency (how we learn to interact with the world) based on heart-brain interactions in utero. With @corcorana.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social

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Image depicts physiological and environmental signals experienced by a foetus within the womb of a woman sitting at a park bench

Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development - new preprint on the implications of rhythmic visceral dynamics for the development of self, agency, & diversity, by @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social osf.io/nvj45

Graphical abstract for the paper. The top panel shows findings that compared to never been pregnant peers, women pregnant for the first time show more body estrangement, more often feel out of control, more body visibility, greater attractiveness, femininity, pride, confidence and poorer learning. The bottom half of the figure depicts changes by trimester such that the first trimester is associated with a dip in sense of self, the second trimester shows consolidation so that the self is stronger in pregnant women than non pregnant peers and a relative return to baseline by the third trimester.

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰
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Agency in schizophrenia and autism: a systematic review Previous research suggests that altered experiences of agency are an underlying vulnerability in both schizophrenia and autism. Here, we explore agency as a potential transdiagnostic factor by conduct...

Our new systematic review is out now! Agency In schizophrenia and autism - check it out: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach - Synthese I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional state that is adaptive an...

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach -- Lovely first paper from M3CS's Tom Darling

Yes absolutely!! It is really hard to find good, readily available images of pregnant women (stereotypes abound) but I take the point and you’re totally right!

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I have been alerted that the link in this bsky post isn’t functioning! See the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Special shout out to my star PhD student @rebeccanineill.bsky.social - this paper will likely be her first academic publication!

We hope this research sparks new interest in cognitive processes during matrescence, and relations to mental health in personally transformative periods. The vast majority of women are pregnant at some point in their lives, and yet we still know very little about this process!

conceptual figure showing weaker sense of self relative to non-pregnant baseline in the first trimester (text saying increased self-reported sense of negative agency and learning deficit with high bayes factors) middle column shows stronger sense of self than baseline in the second trimester (text saying increased self-efficacy, increased body agency - attractiveness, femininity, pride, competence, confidence and recovery of learning to baseline with bayes factors) and final column showing third trimester close to control line with learning deficit returning.

Our exploratory findings regarding trimesters showed that the biggest disruption to the sense of self was seen in the 1st tri, which was recovered to a stronger sense of self than controls in the 2nd tri, and returned to a relative pregnancy baseline by the 3rd tri.

Illustration of flat-bellied woman and pregnant woman stand back to back, with text by the pregnant woman saying "More body estrangement More often feel out of control More body visibility Greater sense of attractiveness femininity, pride, confidence Poorer learning Perrykkad, O'Neill, Jamadar (2023)"

Using self-report and tasks we found that overall, compared to women who had never been pregnant (n=102:100), pregnant women reported higher body estrangement, increased body visibility, more often felt out of control, and had poorer performance on a learning task.

Illustration of the progression of pregnancy

Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

Depersonalization affects self-prioritization of bodily, but not abstract self-related information

Our new study out in Journal of Experimental Psychology

Together with Anna Ciaunica , @lukemcellin.bsky.social & @hohwy.bsky.social

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