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Paul Steinfath

@paulsteinfath.bsky.social

PhD student at MPI-CBS. I like brain-body interactions and plants.

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Paul Steinfath@paulsteinfath.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨! We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Heartbeat-evoked responses (HER) are a widely used marker for interoception. However, our systematic review revealed considerable methodological variability and a lack of reporting standards, likely ...

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Paul Steinfath@paulsteinfath.bsky.social · last yr.

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

Alina Studenova@studenova.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Methods research is cool🤩. This work suggests that hexadirectional modulation in fMRI is not a specific signature of grid-cell activity and may arise from alternative mechanisms (variance, nonlinearities, analysis). We need more validation of existing methods, especially for non-invasive recordings.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Can grid cells produce hexadirectional signals? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709667v1

Nadine Herzog@ndherzog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here we gooo! Will fMRI become obsolete for measuring striatal reward signals? Probably not anytime soon… Still, in our latest paper, we use AI to take a step toward decoding striatal reward signals from EEG — maybe nudging the fMRI monopoly just a little :) direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

From surface to depth: Using deep learning to predict striatal fMRI reward signaling from EEG

Abstract. Reward processing is critical for motivation, learning, and decision making. It involves a network centered on the fronto-striatal circuit, with the ventral striatum (VS) playing a pivotal r...

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Nadine Herzog@ndherzog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Woop woop 🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted in Imaging Neuroscience! Can ventral striatal reward signals — originating from deep within the brain — be reconstructed from scalp EEG? We tried to answer this question using deep learning. More soon 👀 Stay tuned.

Jens-Bastian Eppler @ Real Scientists DE@realscientists.de · 8mo ago

Heute noch Thema Vereinbarkeit (Familie & Beruf). Das ist mir auch deshalb wichtig, weil ich selbst als Doktorandin so gut wie keine Professorinnen mit Kind(ern) als Vorbild hatte, mir das aber gewünscht hätte. Meine Karriere sieht auf dem Papier jetzt wie ein "Vorzeigemodell" für Vereinbarkeit aus.

Alina Studenova@studenova.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If the brain operates in a critical regime, it's said to be beneficial for information manipulation. In this paper, criticality of motor cortex of Parkinson’s disease patients was compared with controls. So patients' brain is closer to (not farther from) the critical point, regardless of the meds.🆒🆒

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Emergent critical oscillations in motor cortex of Parkinson's patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698590v1

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉 Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

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Richard Gao@rdgao.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences@mpicbs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Noise as a Signal – Moritz Gerster, Vadim Nikulin & Arno Villringer analysed data from 119 patients & discovered a new electrical signature of #Parkinson’s Disease, now published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social: www.cbs.mpg.de/2412209/2025... #parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy

Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease

Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease

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Moritz Gerster@moritz-gerster.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social! 📖 Read the open-access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility

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Moritz Gerster@moritz-gerster.bsky.social · last yr.

How does subthalamic activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms? In a truly collaborative effort across #DBS centers, we aggregated a diverse dataset of invasive recordings from 119 patients. Full article: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Main findings 🧵⬇️

Nikolai Kapralov@willenjoy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As part of the Toolbox Bouquet, @studenova.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on simulations of M/EEG activity and connectivity with the MEEGsim toolbox! You’re very welcome to join us on Oct 30th between 2 and 5pm 😉 More details will follow soon 🔜

CuttingEEG@cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#PracticalMEEG2025 is coming up soon |Oct 28–30| and we’re full! But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis. 💐Free but mandatory registration 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ole Jensen@olejensen.bsky.social · last yr.

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

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Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last yr.

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

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Alina Studenova@studenova.bsky.social · last yr.

If you're contemplating new study to start, Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart, And you search for clear analytical steps, That give you a good estimation of HEPs. This review uncovered how most people act, When they heart reaction from data extract.