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Belkis Ezgi Arikan

@belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social
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psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist / @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social pain, expectation effects (placebo, nocebo), sense of agency, action-perception coupling, time perception

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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looking forward to starting my project and working with this great team 😊 The project will investigate how action-induced touch shapes how we perceive and respond to threats with potential implications for understanding anxiety and related conditions 🫴🧠👁
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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are currently looking for support with our experimental studies in Essen, particularly with MRI measurements 🧲🧠 but also general research assistant tasks. Feel free to forward this ad to interested parties ❤️
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Hannah McDermott @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨New paper alert 🚨 Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠 @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik elifesciences.org/articles/103...
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Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning
Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across tria...
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!
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Klinik für Neurologie Essen @neurologieessen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NEUE SCHMERZSTUDIE COLANA gestartet Wir suchen gesunde Versuchspersonen im Alter von 18-65 Jahren. Weitere Informationen zu den Teilnahmekriterien teilen wir in einem persönlichen Gespräch mit. 👇 In den Bildern erfahren Sie mehr über diese Studie! 1/2
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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
⭐ GIVEAWAY! ⭐ We are giving away 3 signed copies of the non-fiction book from our CRC! 📚 In „Dein Körper glaubt dir alles – Wie der #Placebo-Effekt die Gesundheit stärkt“, Prof. Ulrike Bingel and Prof. Sven Benson explain how patients can use the power of #expectations to improve their health. 💪
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Preprint alert! In our latest study, we show that affective context can shape how we feel touch during movement. In a virtual reality environment, participants moved their hands to avoid spiders or approach rabbits by extending or flexing their arms while we measured tactile sensitivity.
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🚨New publication out in IEEE Transactions on Haptics! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40633048/
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Reliability of tactile perception and suppression measurements - PubMed
Tactile signals arising on one's own body allow estimation of one's sensory state and foster interactions with the environment. However, tactile perception can be influenced by various factors. For in...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier. Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!
Screenshot of the original tweet announcing our move, with 5K likes and 2M views.
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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New article out at Science Advances! Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
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The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Delighted to see ‘A Trick of the Mind’ reviewed in @theguardian.com as Book of the Day! 🧠 🍎 Also in the print edition tomorrow 🗞️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
very inspiring talk from Ulrike Bingel @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social on the neurobiological mechanisms of treatment expectations and the importance of addressing interindividual variability
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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Follow all members of the CRC at once using our starter pack! 🤩 go.bsky.app/TgjkCXL
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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Today was a great start to #SIPSplacebo2025 on Krakow! The conference began with some pre-conference activities like an ECR summer school organized and hosted by us! ✨ @liviaasan.bsky.social @vivienjanowicz.bsky.social @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social @winstontan.bsky.social and many more!
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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
✨ Best team ever!!! ✨ The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐ Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 08/05/2025
The nocebo effect appears to work more strongly and more persistently than the placebo effect when it comes to pain, a new study has found. 🧪 Ft. @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/when-it-come...
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When It Comes To Pain, The Nocebo Effect Beats The Placebo Effect
The nocebo effect is stronger and longer lasting than its more positive counterpart.
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
very happy to see this out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Despite small delays, we feel our actions and their effects happen at the same time due to our brain's ability to adapt and recalibrate.
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Recalibration of perceived agency transfers across modalities | Royal Society Open Science
We experience our actions and their sensory consequences as synchronous despite small sensorimotor delays. This is attained by an adaptation process in which the sensorimotor system recalibrates tempo...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A. Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference. sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...
Mark your calendars for our next online tandem talks in 2025:

Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence

APRIL 25 at 10Am ET

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University, University of California, San Diego)

Berna Devezer (University of Idaho)

Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Looking forward to discussing my work on the spatial specificity (or lack thereof) of self-generated touch at #teap2025! Poster 5705 🤓🫴
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Belkis Ezgi Arikan @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
gofund.me/462cbba4 please help share and contribute if possible.
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Donate to Sara's Brain Cancer Treatments, organized by Guido Maiello
Dear Family and Friends, Old and New, We are the family of Sara Joy Hawkins, and this… Guido Maiello needs your support for Sara's Brain Cancer Treatments
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Rochelle Ackerley @rochelleackerley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#IASAT25 is happening! The 5th meeting of the International Association for the Study of #Affective #Touch will be held in Jena, Germany 9-11 June 2025. Submit your proposals for symposia and abstracts for open talks/poster here iasat2025.uni-jena.de deadline mid-December
iasat2025.uni-jena.de
Warm regards, Ilona Croy & Annett Schirmer
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information
A timing-based code for semantic knowledge in humans complements the established role of firing rates in neural coding.
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