Thanks, @cos.io, for all these years of providing storage and hosting data/projects 🫡

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 17h ago

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

¡¡ IMPORTANTE !! Ruego difundáis este artículo de @el_pais sobre el incumplimiento de la estabilización de lxs investigadorxs Ramón y Cajal. En él denuncio mi situación en @UPFBarcelona @LaiadeNadalUPF elpais.com/educacion/20... #rycenlucha

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

Excited to announce "The Body in Dialogue" workshop @institutducerveau.bsky.social! 4 sessions on how the brain talks to the body across the animal kingdom: My session features Ana Domingos, @karalmarshall.bsky.social, Denis Burdakov & Michael Krashes. More announcements coming soon, stay tuned!

A few recent noteworthy papers on human respiratory #interoception showing: 1) exhalation's impacts on risky decision making. Kudos to the team led by Soyoung Park! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior

Huang et al. show that prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by enhancing reward sensitivity and cardiac parasympathetic activity. Individuals with greater parasympathetic upregulation exhibi...

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This is an amazing work, congrats Leah and the whole team! A milestone for Interoception & mental health

Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm not a big football fan, but the behaviour of the Argentine national team yesterday was disgusting. I just hope that kids who look up to those players don't grow up thinking that's how sportsmanship should look.

Many thanks to @danlikesbrains.bsky.social for the invitation and warm welcome in Münster! It was a pleasure to share our work, discuss exciting research, and meet such a wonderful team in a beautiful setting.

Rhythms of interaction – the timescales of social coordination and why they matter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fantastic opportunity in a great place with superb supervisors; check below 👇

Dr Lena Matyjek@lmatyjek.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re looking for a motivated PhD candidate (Spanish nationality) to apply for funding and join a project on inter-brain synchrony in #autism at @upf.edu Barcelona🧠 Deadline coming up soon! W/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social Please see the flyer for details and send your CV + motivation letter asap!

Why do we like what we see? We argue that visual liking is a context- and goal-sensitive process of sensory valuation: the brain assigns hedonic value to what we see by integrating visual features with meaning, expectations, bodily state, task demands, and reward. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Actors' Facial Movement Magnitude and Cardiac Dynamics Predict Observers' Emotion Believability Ratings

In non-verbal communication, observers infer emotions from visible facial movements, yet emotional experiences are described in internal bodily terms (e.g., "my heart skipped a beat"). This contrast h...

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My university's coverage of the collaboration I did to shed light "on how political emotions (anger, anxiety, hope) create distinct bodily maps" 🧠🗳️ With @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @mtsakiris.bsky.social (thanks team!)

Universitat de les Illes Balears - UIB@uib.cat · last mo.

#RecercaUIB | 💭 Un estudi amb la participació de la #UIB mostra que les emocions polítiques no només es pensen o s’expressen, sinó que també es viuen físicament en el cos. #emBODY #PsicologiaUIB #FonsFEDER 🔗 Llegeix la notícia! diari.uib.cat/w/un-estudi-...

From primates and birds to fish and insects, animals share visual preferences 🧠🦋 We all gravitate toward curvature, biological motion, and specific colors. These aren't just aesthetic choices, they help us find food, friends & safe spaces see below new work by Marcos Nadal

Marcos Nadal@mnadal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Humans and other animals, including other primates, birds, fish, and insects, share flexible preferences for curvature, visual structure, biological motion, and color. They help orient behavior toward relevant aspects of the world: food sources, social partners, and places. doi.org/10.1016/J.CO...

New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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The 2nd seminar of the Interoception Circle is next Wed. 12-13:00 (CET) "Interoceptive plasticity: Alterations to breath-hold sensations and affective afforndaces in freediving" Link and abstract here: ace2lab.com/2581-2/

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

This new publication looks really interesting doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Heart rate synchrony as a marker of real-world social engagement

Abstract. Human social behavior unfolds in complex real-world environments influenced by social and environmental factors, yet reliable markers of social e

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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

Some new work on AI & science: A reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral science Thanks to @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social for spearheading. As LLMs become more common in research, transparency is essential. We developed a reporting checklist for reporting how LLMs were used - please share! 1/4

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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Very excited for my paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social on spontaneous emergence of #Interpersonal #Physiological #Synchrony (IPS). We show that, even without a structured task, your autonomic bodily signals synchronize with another person just by looking at them! doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵 1/6

NYAS Publications

Dyads merely looking at each other synchronize autonomic physiology, including heart rate, pupil diameter, breathing rate, and skin conductance. Synchrony in some of these measures co-occurs with syn...

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Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information www.science.org/content/arti...

Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information

Frequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments

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Our 4yo intern visiting the lab and making the tough questions: How does it work? But how? And why?

Finally out: my review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social covering how my lab and others have been ‘Looking into working memory through micro eye movements’ over the years. What does the microsaccade bias buy us? A lot I argue. Go see for yourself at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Francesco Antonio Mallus, Thomas Wolfers, et al: From early to contemporary normative modeling: Mapping individual differences in neurophysiological signals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://bit.ly/49YfgaE

The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world

The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) seeks to uncover general principles of brain function through an ecological perspective: studying perception, cognition, and action in the c...

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In Physics of Life Reviews: Brain-body interaction has revealed a role for interoception in cognitive functioning. I propose a roadmap on how to implement this knowledge into concrete engineering design for biology-inspired AI to, ultimately, reaching near-conscious machines doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature Neuroscience

Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...

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Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...