What do people actually mean when they say cells *communicate*? That question drove my PhD. The preprint with the main findings is now live: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30461/ 1/

You still have time to visit @c-abele.bsky.social poster on the opposing effects of loneliness and interoception on cardiac reactivity to interpersonal distance during a #VR stop-distance task ✋🫀🕶️ #PuG2026

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Do interoceptive body trust and loneliness shape our cardiac orienting responses to interpersonal proximity in naturalistic settings using immersive #VR? Stop by poster 440 by @c-abele.bsky.social to find out more! 🕐 Fri, June 5th | 10:00-12:00 (Poster session 2) 📍 Neue Aula #PuG2026 [6/6]

Do interoceptive body trust and loneliness shape our cardiac orienting responses to interpersonal proximity in naturalistic settings using immersive #VR? Stop by poster 440 by @c-abele.bsky.social to find out more! 🕐 Fri, June 5th | 10:00-12:00 (Poster session 2) 📍 Neue Aula #PuG2026 [6/6]

🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

Morning #PuG2026 crowd! Mark your calendars for one of the first Mind-Body-Emotion talks by @martager.bsky.social today at 15:30

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Can we learn to voluntarily control our bodily states? 🫀@martager.bsky.social will present a pilot study using autogenic training to assess how people can successfully learn to directly decrease heart rate through the lens of ideomotor theory. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 15 #PuG2026 [3/6]

Morning #PuG2026 crowd! Mark your calendars for one of the first Mind-Body-Emotion talks by @aleksanpi.bsky.social today at 15:30!

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How would you react to a virtual agent approaching you? 🏃🕶️ @aleksanpi.bsky.social will present a #VR pilot study assessing interpersonal proximity in virtual and real contexts, loneliness and and their physiological correlates. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 08 #PuG2026 [2/6]

Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]

🚀 New preprint out! With @toninfrc.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com & Ł. Okruszek: "Lost in Emotional Space". We introduce emotional bandwidth, a new way to measure how people navigate their emotional landscape in daily life, and link it to depression and loneliness using experience sampling 🧵 1/5

Also, if in Berlin and interested in open science and physiological data, this one is definitely for you 🫀

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@martager.bsky.social 📍Special Talk 📆 Mar 11, 13:00 To conclude, meet the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG): a collaborative initiative to benchmark & standardize peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, RESP) preprocessing and analysis. Check our pipelines from v0.0.1! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 bbsig.de

Hello sunny Berlin 👋☀️ The #MindBrainBody Symposium kicks off today and we’re excited to dive into three days of engaging discussion and new ideas! Our MBE group is bringing several posters & talks this year: come find us and chat about our research! 💬 See below to know where to spot us 📌 #MBBS26

If you’re in Berlin today, come say hi and learn why more is not always better when it comes to emotions!

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@aleksanpi.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social 📍D31 📆Mar 10, 16:20 What if mental health depends not only on emotional intensity, but on how many emotional configurations we experience daily? We introduce emotional bandwidth: the breadth of emotional state space, linked to depression and loneliness 🎚️

Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience? Spoiler: that’s completely normal! Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity. 🧩 Reusable modules 📊 Data sync 🕶️ Multi-headset support And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!

EDIA@ediatoolbox.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Deadlines are there to be made. EDIA XR Toolbox for research is now publicly available online. Check out edia-toolbox.github.io for more details. Minor updates are to be expected in coming weeks. We are excited and planning an online zoom session for interested parties soon.

In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health' by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

🧠🫀 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 [1/2]

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...

frontiersin.org

Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do

Maia Kobabe@redgoldsparks.bsky.social · last yr.

The Sameer Project is a donations-based aid initiative in Gaza led by Palestinians. Their multiple campaigns serve families across Gaza with medical supplies, food, tents, and other necessities. linktr.ee/thesameerproject.

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

nature.com

I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social! Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations! More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!

That’s a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025! @martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes 🫀🫁🧠 See you next year in Heidelberg!

Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies 👤🧠👓

@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, don’t miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧

Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈@agatapatyczek.bsky.social · last yr.

If you're in Leipzig tonight, come visit us at Long Night of Science! Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!

Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability 🧠 Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/

Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR 👁️🕵️‍♀️ 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor) #PuG2025

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Can VR boost eyewitness accuracy? 👁️🕵️‍♂️ @alexandroskas.bsky.social will present the 3D Interactive Lineup (3DIL) — a new approach using VR to improve identification accuracy vs. traditional monoscopic 2D & 2.5D lineups. Poster B221 📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍 2.XXX Z6

Don’t miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.social’s poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease 🧠👓 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️@flxklotz.bsky.social will present EDIA, an open-source tool for building and conducting VR experiments in Unity, featuring a real-world example evaluating eye tracking performance across 5 VR headsets. Poster B208 📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍 2.XXX Z6

Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing. My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it! @martager.bsky.social @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.

We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social

This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part 🌍

Attending #PuG2025 in Würzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social 🔍 More details soon!

bioDGPS and DGPA@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · last yr.

Das detaillierte Programm der Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social ist jetzt online und hier zu sehen: www.pug2025.org/de/programm

We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency

Tools and Software

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