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Aleksandra Piejka

@aleksanpi.bsky.social
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PhD in Psychology | Visiting researcher @ Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social at MPI CBS @mpicbs.bsky.social | social determinants of health, psychophysiology, affective science (she/her)

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Wiktor Rorot @wikror.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What do people actually mean when they say cells *communicate*? That question drove my PhD. The preprint with the main findings is now live: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30461/ 1/
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You still have time to visit @c-abele.bsky.social poster on the opposing effects of loneliness and interoception on cardiac reactivity to interpersonal distance during a #VR stop-distance task ✋🫀🕶️ #PuG2026
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Do interoceptive body trust and loneliness shape our cardiac orienting responses to interpersonal proximity in naturalistic settings using immersive #VR? Stop by poster 440 by @c-abele.bsky.social to find out more! 🕐 Fri, June 5th | 10:00-12:00 (Poster session 2) 📍 Neue Aula #PuG2026 [6/6]
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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Morning #PuG2026 crowd! Mark your calendars for one of the first Mind-Body-Emotion talks by @martager.bsky.social today at 15:30
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Morning #PuG2026 crowd! Mark your calendars for one of the first Mind-Body-Emotion talks by @aleksanpi.bsky.social today at 15:30!
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]
Schematic summary of cardio-respiratory effects on voluntary action initiation and SoA
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Aleksandra Piejka @aleksanpi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚀 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
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Aleksandra Piejka @aleksanpi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Also, if in Berlin and interested in open science and physiological data, this one is definitely for you 🫀
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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
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Aleksandra Piejka @aleksanpi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If you’re in Berlin today, come say hi and learn why more is not always better when it comes to emotions!
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Alexandros Kastrinogiannis @alexandroskas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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!
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 25/09/2025
In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📢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.
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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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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🧠🫀 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]
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate
Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...
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Aleksandra Piejka @aleksanpi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology
Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...
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Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social! Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations! More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
That’s a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025! @martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes 🫀🫁🧠 See you next year in Heidelberg!
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies 👤🧠👓
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, don’t miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧
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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability 🧠 Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR 👁️🕵️‍♀️ 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor) #PuG2025
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Don’t miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.social’s poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease 🧠👓 🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 12/06/2025
Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing. My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it! @martager.bsky.social @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part 🌍
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Attending #PuG2025 in Würzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social 🔍 More details soon!
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments 💬 #PuG2024
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