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Francesca Fardo

@francescafardo.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist • brain • spinal cord • pain and temperature perception Lab website: body-pain-perception-lab.github.io

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Read the full thread for details!
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Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain
Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.
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Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My brilliant student Matt Cormie became interested in the thermal grill, and designed a study to see if the TG can elicit primary/secondary hyperalgesia and/or brush allodynia. These could help us parse out the mechanisms involved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Thermal Grill Elicits Central Sensitization
The thermal grill, in which innocuous warm and cool stimuli are interlaced, can produce a paradoxical burning pain sensation—the thermal grill illusion (TGI). While the mechanisms underlying TGI remai...
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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain! Our new study reveals how perceptions of pain can emerge from the interplay between thermal sensations, expectations, and uncertainty. Check out our thread for all the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #psychology 🧪
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
📄 Our new preprint is out! In a new study of more than 250 individuals, we investigated the link between mental health and sensitivity to acute thermal pain 🌡️😣. Check out the thread below for surprising findings, as well as links to all study materials and code! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈 #psychology
A generated image, depicting a painting linking mental health and thermal pain, in an impressionist style.
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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 01/12/2023
Tonight is our joint ECG and Body-Pain-Perception Lab's Julefrokost! God Jul! Tak @francescafardo.bsky.social & @mgallen.bsky.social for hosting.
a silly gpt scene of a neurothemed lab julefrokost
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 14/11/2023
On our way to Aberdeen to share our latest research on interoception, pain, and thermosensation! 🧠📈 🧠🫀 @francescafardo.bsky.social
Our family photo at the Billind Airport
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/11/2023
@francescafardo.bsky.social and I are excited to head to Aberdeen tomorrow to hang out with Bert Timmermans and colleagues!
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Check out our 🔥 preprint on paradoxical heat! Big shoutout to @agmitchell.bsky.social and the team for the awesome work 👏
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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Just joined… Bluesky seems like the twittersphere from a decade ago…. & that’s not a bad thing…
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Anna J Finley, PhD @annajfinley.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
Introduction time! I am a social-affective neuroscientist & postdoc at UW-Madison working with the MIDUS Neuroscience team. I research the interrelations between cognition, emotion, social contexts, health, & well-being. Currently an NRSA F32 fellow examining the affective neuroscience of loneliness
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
My lab is in Budapest attending the EFIC congress this week. Check out our lineup of posters below! 🧠🥶🥵🔥
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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Hi there #PsychSciSky, #Neuroskyence, #Neuroimaging! My lab studies the computational and cognitive neuroscience of pain, with some intersections with interoception and metacognition thanks to our proximity to @mgallen.bsky.social. Excited to catch up with ex-twitter friends and make new ones here 🤗
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 16/09/2023
We enjoyed a lovely Saturday lunch here with Chris and Uta Frith, full of homemade cider, risotto, and scientific discussion. Aurora especially enjoyed her new story book! I’m told the Friths will be joining us on bsky very soon! #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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