Mind-Body-Emotion Group

Summary slide

Interaction effects of placebo and non-placebo

Opioid placebo effects

Placebo effect on migraine

Real-world relevance of #brain-body interactions:

How to harness treatment expectations and endogenous „drugs“?

Clear and powerful keynote by @ulrikebingel.bsky.social at the #MindBrainBody Symposium.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Very excited to present my poster on the transition dynamics of attention later today at #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB And even more excited to see my students presents theirs, addressing different questions raised by this framework (see below) :)

Methods of literature analysis

Growth of interoception papers

Sixun Hou (Cambridge) presenting a data-driven literature analysis of #interoception & related concepts finding „exponential growth“ & a focus on the heart 😊

Good discussion about whether interoception is necessarily conscious & how to split the term up (carving nature at novel joints?)

#MBBS2026

Jellina‘s method slide

HR/V results

HEP results

Link to psychology

Also @jellinap.bsky.social , #MindBrainBody , Young Scientist Awardee 2023, presents her stunning work on #brain-#heart coupling across the menstrual cycle analysing resting heart rate variability and heartbeat-evoked potentials - with links to premenstrual #feelings.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Two past Young Scientist Award winners are presenting today at #MindBrainBody Symposium: @ege-kingir.bsky.social on cardiac dynamics in visual and somatosensory perception & @jellinap.bsky.social on neural-cardiac processing across the menstrual cycle 🫀🧠

Consider appplying in next years!

#MBBS2026

Fresh results slide

Results slides

Results slides at MBBS

Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Absolutely beautiful and comprehensive #keynote by #SonjaKotz on #time and #rhythm processing from a #comparative and #translational #MindBrainBody perspective @ MBB Symposium in Berlin! ✨

band-lab.com
@maastrichtu.bsky.social

#MBBS2026

Did you miss Mascha’s poster on how vascular signals contribute to active visual perception, using pulse transit time from ECG+PPG? Don’t worry, we have you covered! 👀🫀🧠

👉 Here is the poster PDF: www.cbs.mpg.de/2435868/b12_...

#MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

Photo with speaker and slide at the MBB Symposium

Discussion slide at the MBB Symposium

Beautiful study and results by @marieloescher.bsky.social on the behavioral relevance of the gastric (and cardiac and respiratory) rhythm.

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#MindBrainBody #MBB2026

Slides of the talk with samples and the task

Slide with the results across the 4 samples

Slide with discussions about the brain gut results

Slide with results about pre and post-stimulus oscillations

So many inspiring talks (here by @saramehrhof.bsky.social, Sameer Alladin, @studenova.bsky.social) and discussions on the first day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026!

#MBB2026

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen

Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

@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

M. Aursand
📍C18
📆 Mar 10, 15:20

Finally, we introduce the interoceptive flexibility task, capturing dynamical transitions toward interoceptive attention. It is well-established that "regular" attentional transitions carry a performance cost, but this remains open for interoceptive flexibility [3/3]

S. Weinhardt
📍C13
📆 Mar 10, 15:20

Following this, we investigate how attentional transitions are shaped by bodily rhythms 🧠🫀🫁 Using behaviour, pupillometry, ECG, and respiration, we uncover the interoceptive and neuromodulatory influences that push and pull attention within this state space [2/3]

@samversc.bsky.social
📍D13
📆 Mar 10, 16:20

Our attention focus regularly shifts between different states: external vs. internal, on- vs. off-task. We integrate them in a novel state space and show distinct dynamical transitions to off-task attention during external vs. internal attention task [1/3]

@alexandroskas.bsky.social
📍D36
📆Mar 10, 16:20

What can gaze behavior reveal about eyewitness identification? 👀👓 We use eye-tracking in interactive 3D lineups to examine how people visually inspect faces during suspect selection, with the goal of improving forensic identification procedures.

@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 🎚️

@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! 💬

M. Dagen
📍B12
📆 Mar 9, 19:45

Perceptual accuracy varies across cardiac & respiratory phases - but is this adaptive? Using pulse transit time (ECG -> PPG) as a non-invasive proxy for beat-to-beat blood pressure changes, we probe vascular contributions to active visual perception 🫀🖐️👀

@agatapatyczek.bsky.social
📍A26
📆 Mar 9, 18:45

Is autonomic aging simply a story of progressive decline? 📉 We find a more complex picture: while age-related group patterns are evident, longitudinal individual trajectories vary a lot. Next step: is the locus coeruleus linked to these differences? 🔵🧠

@el-rei.bsky.social
📍A25
📆 Mar 9, 18:45

We conducted a literature-derived definition of the central autonomic network and show that its cortical component forms a coherent, replicable, and functionally segregated network. Want to learn more about this elusive network? Swing by poster A25! 🧠

@flxklotz.bsky.social
📍A20
📆 Mar 9, 18:45

Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️
Meet 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.

👉 More info @ediatoolbox.bsky.social

Hello sunny Berlin 👋☀️
The #MindBrainBody Symposium kicks off today and we’re excited to dive into three days of engaging discussion and new ideas!

Our MBE group is bringing several posters & talks this year: come find us and chat about our research! 💬

See below to know where to spot us 📌
#MBBS26

The #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 will start tomorrow.

The program is now online: mindbrainbody.de

Safe travels everybody and very much looking forward to seeing you there ✈️🌍🚞🥾

#MBB2026 #MBB

How do you prefer to call it?

1️⃣ Biopsychology
2️⃣ Biological psychology

📊 Show results

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

A couple of more hours to submit your work and register to attend!

Deadline: today (Jan 8, 2026) anywhere on earth.

🌏 🌎 🌍

Do it here: survey.academiccloud.de/f/464284?lan...

#interoception #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

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! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

MBB Symposium

Details: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...