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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I have visual exp. as well, so subjects are instructed to not blink during the anticipation phase in both somato and visual tasks. I don't remove blink trials, only correct the artifact. I told my speculative theory about those blinks but I can't say for sure "if they blink they are distracted"

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

[3/3] Blinking more in the pre-stim window -on the other hand- could correspond to times where they have excessive strain in the eyes: hence focusing less to the task & no successful target detection. This behavior also increases towards the end of the recording sessions.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

[2/3] For many subjects, it is very difficult to not blink during the pre-stimulus window (many of them tell me that post-exp.) When they detect the stimulus, anticipation is over and "they can blink now". But if they don't detect, they are usually still waiting for the target and not blinking.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

[1/3] Cool visualization! I never did a quantitative analysis on this in my somatosensory detection dataset, but while looking at the EEG/EOG signal in my trials, the post-stimulus (max. few hundred ms later) blink was quite common after detected trials. So I was thinking...:

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Interested in the influence of cardiac phase on visual & tactile perception and their neural correlates? Drop by my poster (#638) tomorrow (Friday) between 11:30-13:00 at #FENS2026 to see some fresh results from our collaborative study with @mpicbs.bsky.social 🫀🧠

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

[4/4] Finally, a big shout out to the editors of this book Lucia Melloni and Umberto Olcese & all authors of the many (40!) chapters of this resourceful book! 💫

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

[3/4] The writing process included a lot of meetings and discussions with my supervisor Prof. Melanie Wilke, especially regarding her seminal work on binocular rivalry and flash suppression studies with NHPs. I feel lucky to have learned so much from her!

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

[2/4] Our chapter "Seeing Beyond the Human: Challenges and Advances in Animal Studies of Visual Consciousness" in section 4, reviews the experimental approaches to study conscious perception in animals, and discusses what we can and cannot infer on their subjective (visual) experiences.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

[1/4] Super happy to have contributed to this marvellous book "The Scientific Study of Consciousness: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches", led and curated by Lucia Melloni and Umberto Olcese! All chapters are now available online: www.horizon-minds.com

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Such a pleasure to see the first results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, stemming from a wonderful collaboration between Dept Neurology @mpicbs.bsky.social & #MelanieWilke ‘s lab @uni-goettingen.de ! 💫 #MBBS2026 #MBB #neuroskyence #MindBrainBody #heartbrain #psychophysics #vision #somatosensation

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thank you very much for your kind words @michaelgaebler.com ! It was a great pleasure to be able to give back to the annual #MindBrainBody symposium which gave me one of the most special moments of my PhD career last year 😌🥂

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We reveal this by a novel method to estimate trial-averaged respiratory HRV (traditionally known as RSA) and respiratory phase-INdependent heart rate modulations simultaneously 📏 We show that these two components of ACD might differentially relate to visual perception 👀🧠 [2/2]

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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/...

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<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 ...

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

an interesting perspective to show that respiratory phase alignment is not just coincidental or due to the "rhythm" of repeated trials

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍 We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes. 👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc 🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

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Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey

You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Let me also do a round of hashtags to reach a few visual consciousness researchers that might be interested in our publication: #consciousness #vision #perception #binocularrivalry #neuroscience

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🎊 Final version is finally out on Consciousness and Cognition as open-access 🎊 doi.org/10.1016/j.co... As a lucky coincidence, this means I also get to celebrate my birthday with the first publication of my PhD 🙂

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thank you for the initiative, I'd love to be added as well! I'm a PhD student working on the interaction between interoceptive signals and sensory perception :)

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm extremely honoured to receive the Young Scientist Award at the MindBrainBody Symposium this year! 🎊 Big thanks to @mpicbs.bsky.social and everyone involved in the organization!! Already looking forward to share results from my upcoming experiments in the next edition of #MBBS #MBBS25

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[9/9]: Many thanks to everyone who made this work possible! 🧠 @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[8/9] Our preprint provides an analysis framework to separate internally generated switches in conscious content, from those that are induced exogenously. Such categorization is valuable to understand how our brains update conscious content, without AND under exogenous influence.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[7/9] Finally, we estimated that 24.4% of all perceptual switch events in Task 1 are induced by saccades, hence not spontaneous.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[6/9] Comparing PSLs from our implementation of Hesse & Tsao's paradigm (Task 1) against the continuous binocular rivalry task wherein both external factors are absent (Task 2), we estimated time windows that we can exclude if we want to discard "induced" switches.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[5/9] If the FPs jump at t=0 but the subject only fixates to the center (Task 3); there is a small change in perceptual switch latency (PSL) distributions. If the subject performs saccades while FPs remain stable (Task 4), distribution changes a lot. Saccades induce time-locked switches!

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[4/9] We implemented a two-factorial design to test the influence of the two external factors ("visual appearance of the new fixation points" and "requirement for a saccade to follow them") on the timing of perceptual switches.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[3/9] But can we use it to study the internally generated transitions between different conscious contents? The task requires "jumping fixation points" and "subsequent saccades to follow them". This made us wonder if some perceptual transitions (switches) are induced by these factors.

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[2/9] In this elegant paradigm; each rivaling stimulus has its own fixation point (FP) that "jumps" every few seconds, and subjects follow the FP of the perceived object with their eyes. The paradigm is utilized to show how the conscious and subconscious content is encoded together in macaque IT.

Figure 2 from Hesse & Tsao (2020): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58360

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📰 New Pre-Print 📰 [1/9] There is an increasing interest to study spontaneous transitions in the contents of visual consciousness. Here, we test the suitability of a novel no-report binocular rivalry paradigm, originally developed by Hesse & Tsao (2020), to study such transitions.

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