James Kilner

James Kilner

@jameskilner.bsky.social

Professor of Neuroscience at UCL, London. My research is focussed on Interoception, Predictive coding, Social Cognition and social interactions and Movement Disorders

1,858 Followers 508 Following 52 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling'

by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Principles for proper peer review

Or worse: Here's what I would do if I had this data. I refer to points #4 and #5 in Principles for Proper Peer Review:
4. Don’t write the paper for the authors
5. Respect the authors’ time and effort
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

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The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model.

Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

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

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A figure shwoing boxplots.

Happy to see this collaboration out - fun project led by Lorena Desdentado, Olga Pollatos, and colleagues using our heart rate discrimination task. "Cardiac interoception in action: Modulation after a stress induction with a speech task" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence

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Lauren Laverne - Jamz Supernova sits in - BBC Sounds Jamz brings a great selection of tunes to kick-start your weekend.

My wife, artist Tamar Payne, was on BBC6 music's Desert Island Disco today talking about her forthcoming residency in the Arctic. It is here from 2:06:32. You can follow her work on insta here www.instagram.com/tamarpaynest... and also her website www.tamarpayne.com

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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 ... by Paul Grossman, Gareth L. Ackland, Andrew M. Allen, Gary G. Berntson, Lindsea C. Booth, Gordon M. Burghardt, Julie Buron, Vladimir Dinets, J. Sean Doody, Mathias Dutschmann, David G.S. Farmer, James...

Pleased to share this newly co-authored expert opinion on the Polyvagal Theory (PVT): www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/why...

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Excellent background to current UK R&D funding turbulence.

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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...

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main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

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Interoception in Autism, Pitfalls, and Promise: A Participatory Research Perspective - Eleanor R. Palser, Wenn B. Lawson, Emma Goodall, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2026 Bodily autonomy is essential to Autistic well-being. Interoception supports bodily autonomy through guiding behavior in support of homeostasis. Promoting adapti...

It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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@alexgalvezpol.bsky.social you might be interested in this

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Super interesting study on heart rate synchrony in a real world setting.

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New theoretical paper that provides an explanation for the seemingly paradoxical modulation of perception and action with cardiac and respiratory cycles #interoception

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Yes I think this is really interesting. Would be interesting to see if people can perceive this in speech

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How was it?

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I think they change the setlist a bit night to night. So I would be surprised if it was the same on Tuesday. It was totally amazing and you will not be dissappointed

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I went on Saturday! it is amazing

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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

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I was lucky enough to see Radiohead in concert at the weekend. Absolutely amazing - hopefully someday I will get to study these types of social situations.

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Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

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Always happy to give a date-lite theoretically heavy 45 minute talk :)

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This looks incredibly interesting

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Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Why modern life has us turning to ambient music - BBC Sounds Dani Thomas explores the genre's surge in popularity

I did a small thing for the BBC on the remarkable increase in people listening to ambient music.

Here

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and here

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The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self

We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

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I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

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Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

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