🚨New preprint What happens to your 🫀 when a different sound or a silence is played when hearing your heartbeat ? It slows down! But why? This is what we investigated! Please read our new preprint to find out & this thread for discovering our key results👇. 1/8 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Heartbeat-locked auditory deviations slow down cardiac activity

Our responses to environmental inputs depend on the variations of our own physiological activity. However, the mechanisms by which the integration of sensory information with interoceptive signals sha...

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Our lab participates at @assc2026.bsky.social!

July 3 "Learning-like processes are revealed in low arousal by employing interoceptive stimulation" @parboulakis.bsky.social Conc Sess 19, 2PM "How to catch a blank mind? Neural similarities and differences between self- and probe-caught mind blanking" @agusaragon.bsky.social Conc Sess 27, 5PM

Blank, and you might miss it. Our chapter, “Spontaneous Thoughts and Experiences across Wakefulness and Sleep,” for the upcoming book The Scientific Study of Consciousness: Experimental & Theoretical Approaches, is now available at www.horizon-minds.com.

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I will be presenting two posters at #escan2026, with new results from @physiocognition.bsky.social * The novel Liege Mind-Blanking scale! 04/06/2026 12:00-02:00pm *Evidence for sentience processes in anesthesia through interoceptive stimulation! 06/06/2026 01:00-03:00pm Hit me up for apero!

🚨Preprint alert🚨. Ever wondered how often people blank? Then check our new paper “How often do we blank? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of mind blanking report rates during experience-sampling” (osf.io/preprints/ps...). A 🧵 thread ...

Notre article sur le vide mental a les honneurs du @lemonde.fr ! Merci @hnirom.bsky.social pour ce bel article ! www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Le « vide mental », intrigant état de notre vie intérieure que l’on sait désormais mesurer

Une nouvelle étude précise les contours comportementaux et physiologiques d’épisodes fugaces caractérisés par une apparente abolition de la conscience.

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Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n

I hope to have time soon to write a little thread on this, but for now here's the PsyArXiv link to a new preprint from our lab on the construct validity of probed mind-blanking reports. Chandni Lal will be presenting this work as a poster at the upcoming Psychonomics meeting.

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What Is a "Blank" Mind? Testing the Meaning and Construct Validity of Mind-Blanking Reports to Thought Probes: https://osf.io/ubwae

How I imagine it must be like to work in a small university town

🧪 Our new study on decoding #MindBlanking events started yesterday. The pilot was successful, and we now fine-tune the details. Led by @agusaragon.bsky.social, with the precious assistance of #NikosSimos and @b-marion.bsky.social

Our lab participated at the meeting of the #BelgianSocietyofNeuroscience last Monday, which was a blast. Thank you for bringing us to Leuven this year. W/ @parboulakis.bsky.social @agusaragon.bsky.social @b-marion.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social

🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...

Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences

Mind blanking (MB) is a mental state of seemingly no reportable thought content. The question of how we can entertain no thoughts while awake is challenging for the study of spontaneous thinking. By c...

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Our @agusaragon.bsky.social is a finalists at the #MindScienceFoundation Pitch Competition! And tonight she is also up for the audience choice award. Good luck, Agus! @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social

The @dreamteamicm.bsky.social has launched an online survey about the things you experience when you fall asleep! Everyone is different, so we need you to tell us! It will take only 20 minutes, but it will mean a lot to dream researchers like us! redcap.link/DriftingMinds Please, share! 🧠💤

🧠 New preprint! 🧠 As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on: Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep osf.io/preprints/ps... with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social A brief 🧵!

Mind-wandering is associated with late modulation of the heartbeat-evoked potential; mind-blanking is associated with greater decoupling of heart-brain phase coupling. New findings from our radically-revised study of spontaneous cognitive & physiological dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When your heart isn't in it anymore: Cardiac correlates of task disengagement

Neuroscience is beginning to uncover the role of interoceptive feedback in perception, learning, and decision-making; however, the relation between spontaneous visceral and cognitive dynamics has rece...

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One week ago, @parboulakis.bsky.social added three more letters to his title. His defense was a celebration that brought together beloved alumni, current collaborators, and eternal friends. Congratulations again, Boulakis Paris PhD!👏🎉🎯

Just passed my private defence. Time to celebrate by buying new kitchenware, the height of human experience

🚨Publication alert 🚨. Our Registered Report is finally out at Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread on how mind blanking frequency shifts across different arousal levels ...

🚨Publication alert 🚨 Our review article “Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking” is out on Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). A thread … 🧵

Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking

During wakefulness, the stream of thought is occasionally interrupted by moments when we cannot report any content, termed ‘mind-blanking’ (MB). As MB…

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