Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠

That game is so much fun!!!!

Affective Forecasting Accuracy in Everyday Life - Affective Science Affective Science - People often predict how they might feel in the future, with varying degrees of accuracy. Such affective forecasts can centre around periods of time (e.g., tomorrow, next week)...

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library We present a novel analysis method to quantify task-related, anticipatory cardiac deceleration which takes tonic heart rate oscillations due to respiratory sinus arrhythmia into account. Our results ...

Our latest work on respiratory and non-respiratory contributions to the Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is out! 🫁🫀

As suspected, respiration accounts significantly to the ACD via respiratory HRV, but it seems that it does not fully explain it! [1/2]

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

In this week’s Consciousness Club we’re hosting @matanmazor.bsky.social who will be telling us about “Mind-body dualism as social signalling”

Wednesday 11th March 11am-1230pm UK time

All welcome! For more info and how to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

@samversc.bsky.social
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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]

S. Weinhardt
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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]

M. Aursand
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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]

love the expiry date, seems SO far into the future right now - congrats!

The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces and letters via sound

Preprint from Pawel J. Matusz, Lior Reich, Louise A. Stolz, Chrysa Retsa, David A. Tovar, Ella Striem-Amit, Elena Aggius-Vella, Amir Amedi, Micah M. Murray

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After a long morning on campus testing children for my PhD - now time to chill out and restring the Squier Strat mini.

Determined to learn how to play 'i think about you all the time' from the latest Deftones album

Perfect indoorsy weather for strumming ☺️

Task learning increases information redundancy of neural responses in macaque visual cortex How does the brain optimize sensory information for decision-making in new tasks? One hypothesis suggests that learning reduces redundancy in neural representations to improve efficiency, whereas anot...

New study finds learning makes neurons work better together, not independently. Tracking the visual cortex showed that as skills improve, neurons share more info, blending vision with expectation to build a flexible, inference-based model of the world.

#NeuroSkyence

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I love this very much.

Remembering is not a uniquely human thing

I kind of sympathised with Chalamet at first. Having been a pro opera singer, the form has struggled for ages. And yet...

When I heard La Bohême for the first time as a 15 year old, I was blown away. If he doesn't get it, well, it's his loss frankly

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

Pre-movement respiration–action coupling is specific to self-initiated action: Evidence for action alignment with ongoing breathing

Hiroshi Shibata, Hideki Ohira

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New on MPI TalkLing: “The Average Brain Doesn’t Exist”. Lilit Dulyan explains why the idea of a single “typical” brain misses what makes our brains uniquely variable, and how researchers still make sense of all that diversity. 👇
www.mpi-talkling.mpi.nl?p=2854&lang=en

Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one?

In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵

Excited to share that our MEG project is now out in Current Biology! We show how visual content codes relate to motor oscillations in telling time.

Huge thanks to Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok, Matt Davis and Clare Press (bsky links below).🧵

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Why conversation is more like a dance than an exchange of words www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...

Next session of #IRCA Aphantasia Online Talk #19 is next Tuesday the 10th March at 11am (CET/Paris), by Derek H. Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social (University of Queensland).
Title: The hopeless quest for a reliable objective metric of visual imagery.
More details here: jianghao-liu.github.io/irca/

So so excited to see them live in May

The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence

Ooh this looks interesting!

That looks so cool!!

This book should be essential reading for anyone who has anything to do with AI. Well researched, with proper reference to recent history, revealing the insane underlying philosophies that enthusiastic techies & EA advocates buy into in the name of techno optimism.

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
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That's just insane

So impressed that you took the time to do this! Thank you 🤩