Science is a team effort 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We’re grateful that some of the core values of our group - collaboration, open science and peer support - have been recognized through a shortlist nomination for the Best Research Environment Award 2026 by @jungeakademie.bsky.social & @volkswagenstiftung.de 🚀 👇[1/2]

📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏

Your Input for AffectTracker 2D

Wanna know what your participants really feel when watching movies? Current affective science often relies on static summary ratings that miss the rich temporal dynamics of our emotions. To bridge th...

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🎉 Excited to share the fruits of an awesome collaboration with @aleksanpi! Check out our new preprint! Thread below 🧵👇

Aleksandra Piejka@aleksanpi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 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

Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows? BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 www.bbsig.de We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions #neuroskyence

Overview - Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)

Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) - reproducible, open-access pipelines for peripheral physiology analysis

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Marta Gerosa@martager.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Overwhelmed by the collegial support and positive feedback received for our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) 🥹 thanks to our amazing team making this possible! Want to try out our pipelines for ECG, PPG (and soon respiration)? 🔗 www.bbsig.de #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

@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

Another poster at the #MindBrainBody Symposium. We need your input!

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@toninfrc.bsky.social @fra-malandrone.bsky.social 📍C17 📆 Mar 10, 15:20 Help us help you capture the dynamics of affective experience in your next experiment! We're adapting our real-time continuous rating tool for valence and arousal to work from VR to 2D videos 📽️ Tell us what you need! 💬

Come check out our work at the #MindBrainBody Symposium!

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 5mo 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 🎚️

How the brain listens to the body matters. Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...

From Body to Brain and Back: Multimodal Evidence for Interoceptive Alterations in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

When the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, p...

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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 · 9mo 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.

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

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

@toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁 📣 Symposium 1.1 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15 📍Montréal D, 11th floor See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!

Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de

'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...

Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀 I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️ 👉 Share it widely with curious young minds Yay for #scicomm ✨

Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧠🫀 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]

📢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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📣 We're at the #MindBrainBody Symposium in Berlin, starting today! Looking forward to connect with everyone and share our latest research 🧠 Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌 #MBBS24 #neuroskyence

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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🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share! go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32

Title: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality P.361 (Session 1) @toninfrc.bsky.social In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!

We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments 💬 #PuG2024

🚀Happy our preprint is out!🧠🫀🥽Using immersive VR, we investigated how our emotional experience relates to the interaction between brain & heart activities tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦 1/7 ⬇️