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Excited to present my research on infant interoception next Tuesday 👶🫀🧠
Many thanks for the invitation @cfmhlab.bsky.social!
Guests are welcome to join via Zoom (see original post).

Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.

- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person

Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1

The Body’s 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...

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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Also a big thanks to the reviewers of my thesis Natalie Sebanz and @drmlfil.bsky.social for their insightful feedback and to @katerinafoto.bsky.social and @mtsakiris.bsky.social for hosting me in the final stretch of my PhD.

Very happy to share that today I had the graduation ceremony for my PhD, which I defended back in April. A big thanks to all the people who have made this possible, in particular @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social for being the best supervisor one could have hoped for!

Den eigenen Körper wahrnehmen – schon Babys spüren Herzschlag und Atmung Körpersignale spielen bereits im Säuglingsalter eine Rolle in der Entwicklung

Körpersignale spielen bereits im Säuglingsalter eine Rolle in der Entwicklung 👶
Bislang ist kaum erforscht, ob & wie Babys ihre eigenen Körpersignale wahrnehmen können. Eine Studie der Wiener Kinderstudien der Uni Wien zeigt erstmals, dass bereits 3 Monate alte Babys ihren Herzschlag wahrnehmen. 💓 ⤵️

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context?

We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life Infants are sensitive to their own respiration and heartbeat already in the first two years of life.

Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social

(PDF) Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy: lessons from the adult literature PDF | Models of interoception, the processing of internal bodily signals, highlight infancy as a key period for interoceptive learning. Given the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy is hard in adults, let alone in infants! Such fun turning my brain to this alongside the wonderful Rosie Donaghy, Matteo Lisi and Jeanne Shinskey. Our musings on possible ways forward now accepted in psychophysiology: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Graph with data from a preferential looking task in children aged 5-13 years. Time is on the x-axis and a measure of behavioural disgust approach/avoidance is on the y-axis. Three lines are shown: the first presentation of a stimulus (light green), and its two repetitions (increasingly darker green). The data shows that children initially looked more at disgusting stimuli, but from about 1 second into a trial they showed a bias towards neutral stimuli. This suggests they preferred to avoid looking at disgusting stimuli in exactly the same pattern that adults show.

Graph showing electrogastrography results, with frequency on the x-acis (1-10 cycles per minute) and relative power (max-scaled within individuals) on the y-axis. A pink line indicates results when children (aged 5-13 years) looked at neutral stimuli, and it shows the expected peak in normogastric power at 3 cycles per minute. A green line shows the same but while children were looking at disgusting stimuli (bodily effluvia), and it almost exactly matches the pink line. These results suggest there was no proto-nausea (i.e. no gastric disgust signature) in the tested children (N=44).

Children are disgusting, it's a known fact. But why?! Adults show proto-nausea: a gastric response to grossness. We found this to be absent in 5-13 year-olds! However, children DID show the exact same behavioural avoidance as adults.

Alladin & Berry et al. (2024), doi: doi.org/10.1177/2398... (1/3)

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵

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📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!

📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de

Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social

#interoception

Peak alpha frequency is linked to visual temporal attention in 6-month-olds - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Peak alpha frequency is linked to visual temporal attention in 6-month-olds

New insights from our longitudinal project on infant neural oscillations: Peak alpha frequency is linked to visual temporal attention in 6-month-olds 🧠👶
@univie.ac.at @kinderstudien.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
Led by the amazing Martina Arioli & Alicja Brzozowska
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

great list, would be awesome to be added!

Dear all

I'm hiring a PhD candidate (3 years) to work in Active Sensing, EEG & Interoception! 🧠🫀🫁

This is a great opportunity: beautiful campus, novel research. In collab. with the Max Planck Inst. -> @mgblr.bsky.social

Deadline: 22/11/24
+info: alexgalvezpol.com/joinlab/
PleaseRT

If you have found value in the large-scale studies we carried out through global collaborations in recent years, we will soon share something on a whole new level.

A true testament of dedication to scientific rigor from everyone involved - authors, editor, peer reviewers - for the good of society.