Leon Kroczek
@leonkroczek.bsky.social
Social affective neuroscience in and outside Virtual Reality. PostDoc at Regensburg University. MPI CBS alumnus
In this opinion piece, we provide practical recommendations on the strengths and pitfalls of incorporating AI-based tools at each stage of the biopsychological research cycle from an open science perspective 📝 🔗Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... [2/4]
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Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]
Excited about our new preprint discussing how AI 🤖 may responsibly contribute to fair and open biopsychology🧠 Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thank you for this great team effort🙌 @igor-dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
IGOR DGPs@igor-dgps.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]
Submit here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... #VR #Neuroscience #Embodiment #Science #VRresearch
Frontiers | Virtual Bodies for Real Humans - Avatars, Sensations and Emotions
Our bodies are fundamental to how we experience and interact with the physical world, and they shape the way our minds develop. The human brain develops toge...
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More research is needed to show (1) what is happening at the neural level with these representations, (2) which other factors can affect action spaces, and (3) which circumstances can lead to a change in representational structure - if any.
We think that being in a specific environment may modulate action spaces of corresponding actions by increasing robustness of represented actions, but only if agents already are familiar with the actions.
We observed higher inter-individual consistency sorting kitchen actions while being situated in virtual kitchens - but not the other way around. Similar effects have been observed in ornithologists when sorting birds, compared to novices. However, no structural changes in action spaces.
Actions are thought to be represented in multi-dimensional action spaces. We asked participants to perform multi-arrangement tasks, sorting kitchen and workshop actions, while being situated in virtual kitchens and workshops.
New preprint! My first time using #virtualreality: we investigate how scene context / being in a (virtual) environment affects action representations. Together with @leonkroczek.bsky.social, Michael Roidl, and Angelika Lingnau @uniregensburg.bsky.social Read here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.
Here is a short piece in the Conversation about the Spoon Illusion: doi.org/10.64628/AA.... #psychscisky #neuroskyence but not-really #visionscience
Auditory illusions: new research discovers how our ears play tricks on us
Without visual clues, our ears mishear sounds produced in front of us. Knowing more about why this happens will give new insights into how the brain works.
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Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social
Social Context Matters for Turn‐Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children
Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...
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It was fun to join @acm-iva.bsky.social for a workshop this year! If you are interested in #AI embodied conversational agents and #emotions in #VR check out our paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Affective interactions with AI controlled conversational agents in Virtual Reality | Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
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📢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...
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Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…
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Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions! Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response! doi.org/10.1111/psyp... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...
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I've said it before, and I will say it again: It's astonishing how emotionally aversive revisions are, even in the best possible case (reviewers are positive and have very actionable remarks). Or at least that's how I work; if anybody has some good recommendations for coping, do let me know 😂
Our paper on persona effects in face-to-face social interactions between humans and #LLM-controlled virtual agents is now published in Computers in Human Behavior! 🗣️🤖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #VirtualReality #SocialInteraction #Human-AI #HCI #LLM
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Michael Gaebler@michaelgaebler.com · last yr.Join me! I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of **Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025** Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications www.wuertual.org
If you‘re working with XR in the context of research and happen to be at #PuG2025 – I suggest you drop by at my poster about our EDIA toolbox @ediatoolbox.bsky.social . Let’s chat, connect, collaborate. Not in the area? Check out the poster below and reach out digitally: edia-toolbox.github.io
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
I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩 This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application. Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!
Leon Kroczek@leonkroczek.bsky.social · last yr.Excited about all #PUG25 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social posts coming in! Check out our symposium "The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive #VirtualReality" 🗓️Friday 14:30-16:00 @sabrinagado.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Marius Rubo @martandreatta.bsky.social
New preprint! Here we investigate sustained threat responses elicited by social contexts in #VirtualReality looking at: 🧠🌊 Neural Oscillations 🔊Fear potentiated startle 💦 SCL 🗓️Self-report All measures show successful fear learning by social contexts ✅
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/sftu3
Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/sftu3
Excited about all #PUG25 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social posts coming in! Check out our symposium "The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive #VirtualReality" 🗓️Friday 14:30-16:00 @sabrinagado.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Marius Rubo @martandreatta.bsky.social
Our team is excited to be part of @pug2025.bsky.social by@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social and @dgps.bsky.social in Würzburg this week! Please reach out and approach us if you want to chat or meet! We look forward to an inspiring conference! ✨ News entry with list of our contributions: tud.link/39nus1
Last pre-PuG rehearsal with critical mock audience 😄 Now fully prepared for our symposium on Friday ⬇️ #PuG2025
IGOR DGPs@igor-dgps.bsky.social · last yr.🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium "Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research" 🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00 📍 0.004 @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]
We are excited to be headed to Würzburg for "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2025! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣 Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social
IGOR is going to #PuG2025 in Würzburg! 🧠 @pug2025.bsky.social We’re bringing open science to the spotlight with a series of events throughout the conference. Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved! 🧵 Check the thread below for all IGOR events. [1/6]
Speaking of modeling the variability in reactions -- new Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Reaction in Social Dyads (MARS) challenge. Human-human dyadic interaction audio-visual-EEG clips of 23 speakers and 137 listeners. Audio, face, and EEG behaviours, 20 to 35min sites.google.com/view/react2025
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According to the Stimulus Organism Response theory, for a given external stimulus, individuals may react differently according to their internal state and external contextual factors in a specific per...
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