Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi
@fiorelladpc.bsky.social
PhD, senior post-doc fellow @UniPadova | @PsicologiaAIP director's board | affective psychophysiologist & neuroscientist 🧠 | she/her
Our view is that studying interoception at rest may be missing the point entirely. Forthcoming work with @fiorelladpc.bsky.social calls it the "Quiescence Trap", like judging a car's aerodynamics while parked. We need to study bodily sensing during real physiological stress and symptom onset
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...
📢 New paper out on SciRep! Fear and surprise are among the most commonly confused facial expressions. We investigated why by combining expression recognition studies with high-resolution 3D motion capture. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
Preliminary evidence of kinematic overlap in posed, but not spontaneous, facial expressions of fear and surprise - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Preliminary evidence of kinematic overlap in posed, but not spontaneous, facial expressions of fear and surprise
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If you're attending #ESCAN2026, come join our symposium: From Body Representation to Self-Experience: Neural Mechanisms and Clinical Applications 📅 5 June 2026 🕔 5:00–6:30 PM 📍 Session S5-2 Hope to see you there!
ESCAN@escaneu.bsky.social · 4mo ago🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience
Proud and excited to teach in the new Short Specialization Degree NEUROCARE @unipd.bsky.social A meaningful project bringing together developmental neuroscience, clinical practice, and rehabilitation✨ thanks Giovanni Mento for having me on board! uel.unipd.it/master-e-cor...
NEUROCARE - Neuroscienze e neuropsicologia clinica e riabilitativa dell’età evolutiva | Unipd Executive Learning
Il Master Unipd NCE offre una formazione avanzata, teorica e pratica, sulla valutazione e il trattamento dei disturbi neuropsicologici nei bambini e negli adolescenti.
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🚨 NEW PAPER OUT on @acamh.bsky.social JCPP Led by Lisa Toffoli and Giovanni mento acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Exploring learning-based cognitive control in children with ADHD: intact in simple contexts, but challenged under higher cognitive demands. Have a read!!
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Learning-based cognitive control (CC), the ability to adapt control strategies based on contextual regularities, has been studied in typically developing (TD) children but remains underex.....
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Such an inspiring day with Prof. Freeston, I am truly grateful for the clever insights and valuable feedback I received today ✨stay tuned for the next updates about my research on #adolescent #interoception 🫀
🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪
Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology! www.nature.com/articles/s44... @micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org
Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes in a large scale psychophysical study - Communications Psychology
Bayesian psychophysical modelling of cardiac and respiratory interoception (N=241) showed no cross-domain associations in sensitivity, precision, or metacognition, indicating that interoceptive perfor...
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We are happy to announce that we will host the 2nd #TimingResearchForum @timingresforum.bsky.social Summer School "Sensing Time" at @unipd.bsky.social from 6-10 July 2026. Registration are open until March 15 2026! Clik the link for more information sites.google.com/view/sensing...
This is coming along very nicely. Fascinating hemispheric and areal differences in response to high and low frequency heart rate variability. My favorite brain region, at long last!
Happy to announce that my proposal on #adolescent #interoception and #digitalhealth has been shortlisted to enter stage 2 of the grant review process! 🫀🧠📱 Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻 @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social
MQ Mental Health Research@mqmentalhealth.bsky.social · 11mo ago📢Want to be an MQ Research Fellow? If you're an early career mental health researcher (3-7yrs post doc), based at a research institution anywhere in the world then we want to hear from you! Find out more and submit your expression of interest today: www.mqmentalhealth.org/our-work/res...
📢 New paper! Just published in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #Cortex 🧠 ⏱️This study compares the EEG signatures of explicit and implicit timing, revealing largely overlapping neural dynamics and a key role of expectation and motor preparation 🔓Open access 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.002
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.002
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📢 New paper alert! Just published in @therealspr.bsky.social #Psychophysiology! Led by Antonio Maffei this research shows that social proximity buffers stress-related startle inhibition 🔊, regulating threat vigilance during public speaking 👥🎤 Enjoy the read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Being close to others has a beneficial impact on stress-induced physiological reactivity. Tracking the modulation of the startle reflex during stress, we showed that the stress buffering selectively ...
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Paper submitted! A very special piece led by @fiorelladpc.bsky.social in which we finally write down what we really think is going on with interoception and emotion. Stay tuned!
🧠🫀 Glad to see my proposal on adolescents’ #interoception recognised with a #SealofExcellence This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my supervisory team @micahgallen.com Gioia Bottesi @skhalsa.bsky.social Let’s try again next year! 💪 link.europa.eu/tPVTWM
MSCA awards €404.3 million to postdoctoral researchers
1610 outstanding postdoctoral researchers were selected for funding among 17,066 applicants.
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Thrilled to share some news! 🎉📷 Don't miss my #poster tomorrow. I could not be at the conference for unforeseen circumstances but feel free to email me with all your questions! - via #Whova Event Platform @therealspr.bsky.social
Luigi (@luigi_micillo ) truly touched my🫀by citing me in his PhD thesis acknowledgments 🥹 From that conference to now, it’s been a wild journey — and this is just the beginning! Wishing him all the best, both as a researcher and the amazing person he is 🫶🏻 Let’s crush the PhD defense now!
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
✨ 🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Antonio Maffei, @fiorelladpc.bsky.social & Salvatore Frisina 🔗 Submit your video before October 1, 2025: sprweb.org/spr-video-cont fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Stress
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#MSCAPF call closed and number of applications is huuuge this year😱 I’m happy with my proposal and, as Sahib Khalsa said “every grant submission it’s worth celebrating the opportunity to articulate the best version of your science” marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/node/1463
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
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🧠🍎 New study alert! Among female university students, emotional reactivity and self-regulation (measured via heart rate variability, HRV) play a key role in shaping food choices. 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut... @frontiersmedia.bsky.social
Frontiers | Nutritional habits, inhibitory control, and emotional reactivity to healthy and unhealthy food cues in non-obese female students: insights from heart rate variability
BackgroundResearch shows that the nutritional habits of university students do not follow the national recommendations. While most studies have focused on th...
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
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More news on interoception and time perception!
Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi@fiorelladpc.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 Happy to share our latest paper on #Physiology&Behavior @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Together with Luigi Micillo, Nicola Cellini and Giovanna Mioni we explored the link between cardiac #interoception and time perception 🧵in the comments
🎉 Happy to share our latest paper on #Physiology&Behavior @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Together with Luigi Micillo, Nicola Cellini and Giovanna Mioni we explored the link between cardiac #interoception and time perception 🧵in the comments
In the heart of time: investigating the link between cardiac activity and interoception in explicit and implicit timing
Recent research suggests that our sense of time is influenced by interoceptive abilities. Efficient access to bodily signals, measured objectively (in…
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Excited to chair @micahgallen.com 's fantastic seminar this Wednesday, June 25th at DPG! 🧠🫀 Join us in 📍 Room 2C, PSICO2 building. Don’t miss it! 🚀 #UniversityOfPadova #DepartmentOfGeneralPsychology
