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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

Happening now at #PuG2026: our workshop "Using Virtual Reality (VR) – A practical Workshop on using the Open VR package EDIA" co-organized by @flxklotz.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social Check out @ediatoolbox.bsky.social 📣 #PuG2026 #VR #EDIA #neuroskyence

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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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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can we conceptualise brain-body coupling as nested brain-body states that unfold at different timescales? ⌛@michaelgaebler.com will present empirical evidence for this framework (Villringer et al., 2025) at the micro-, meso-, and macro-scale. 🕐 Fri, June 5th | 16:00-17:30 📍 HS 10 #PuG2026 [5/6]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can we decode emotional facial expressions from neural signals in immersive 3D setups? 😨😀😠 Dive into this question with @flxklotz.bsky.social, using a combination of #EEG, immersive virtual reality #VR and eye tracking. 🕐 Fri, June 5th | 14:00-15:30 📍 HS 01 #PuG2026 [4/6]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can we learn to voluntarily control our bodily states? 🫀@martager.bsky.social will present a pilot study using autogenic training to assess how people can successfully learn to directly decrease heart rate through the lens of ideomotor theory. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 15 #PuG2026 [3/6]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How would you react to a virtual agent approaching you? 🏃🕶️ @aleksanpi.bsky.social will present a #VR pilot study assessing interpersonal proximity in virtual and real contexts, loneliness and and their physiological correlates. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 08 #PuG2026 [2/6]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We are excited to be headed to Heidelberg for the annual bioDGPs/DGPA conference "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2026! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣 Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇 🧵[1/6]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Science is a team effort 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We’re grateful that some of the core values of our group - collaboration, open science and peer support - have been recognized through a shortlist nomination for the Best Research Environment Award 2026 by @jungeakademie.bsky.social & @volkswagenstiftung.de 🚀 👇[1/2]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody 📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@martager.bsky.social 📍Special Talk 📆 Mar 11, 13:00 To conclude, meet the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG): a collaborative initiative to benchmark & standardize peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, RESP) preprocessing and analysis. Check our pipelines from v0.0.1! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 bbsig.de

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

M. Aursand 📍C18 📆 Mar 10, 15:20 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]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

S. Weinhardt 📍C13 📆 Mar 10, 15:20 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]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@samversc.bsky.social 📍D13 📆 Mar 10, 16:20 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]

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@alexandroskas.bsky.social 📍D36 📆Mar 10, 16:20 What can gaze behavior reveal about eyewitness identification? 👀👓 We use eye-tracking in interactive 3D lineups to examine how people visually inspect faces during suspect selection, with the goal of improving forensic identification procedures.

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@aleksanpi.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social 📍D31 📆Mar 10, 16:20 What if mental health depends not only on emotional intensity, but on how many emotional configurations we experience daily? We introduce emotional bandwidth: the breadth of emotional state space, linked to depression and loneliness 🎚️

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@toninfrc.bsky.social @fra-malandrone.bsky.social 📍C17 📆 Mar 10, 15:20 Help us help you capture the dynamics of affective experience in your next experiment! We're adapting our real-time continuous rating tool for valence and arousal to work from VR to 2D videos 📽️ Tell us what you need! 💬

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

M. Dagen 📍B12 📆 Mar 9, 19:45 Perceptual accuracy varies across cardiac & respiratory phases - but is this adaptive? Using pulse transit time (ECG -> PPG) as a non-invasive proxy for beat-to-beat blood pressure changes, we probe vascular contributions to active visual perception 🫀🖐️👀

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@agatapatyczek.bsky.social 📍A26 📆 Mar 9, 18:45 Is autonomic aging simply a story of progressive decline? 📉 We find a more complex picture: while age-related group patterns are evident, longitudinal individual trajectories vary a lot. Next step: is the locus coeruleus linked to these differences? 🔵🧠

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@el-rei.bsky.social 📍A25 📆 Mar 9, 18:45 We conducted a literature-derived definition of the central autonomic network and show that its cortical component forms a coherent, replicable, and functionally segregated network. Want to learn more about this elusive network? Swing by poster A25! 🧠

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@flxklotz.bsky.social 📍A20 📆 Mar 9, 18:45 Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️ Meet EDIA, an open-source tool for building and conducting VR experiments in Unity, featuring a real-world example evaluating eye tracking performance across 5 VR headsets. 👉 More info @ediatoolbox.bsky.social

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@martager.bsky.social will present a poster titled “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 🫀🫁🧠🫳🏻 📣 Poster Session 2 - POS085-2 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor Come have a chat!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁 📣 Symposium 1.1 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15 📍Montréal D, 11th floor See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠 Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today @therealspr.bsky.social

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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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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just wrapped up a fascinating talk by @aleksanpi.bsky.social on the embodied toll of social disconnection, showing how loneliness is accompanied by disrupted parasympathetic responses. Bravo 👏 📍Symposium “How interoception shapes health and disease via social stress and loneliness” #PuG2025

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

How do heartbeat and breathing shape our sense of control over our movements? 🫀🫁 @martager.bsky.social will explore how internal bodily rhythms guide voluntary action initiation and shape the resulting sense of agency. 📆 Sat, June 21 | 09:00-10:30 📍 1.010 Z6

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What makes a virtual face feel real - or eerily not? 👤🧠 @michaelgaebler.com will outline new results from EEG & behavioral studies that explore face perception and realism in 2D vs. 3D immersive VR, part of the NEUROHUM & 3DIL projects. 📆 Fri, June 20 | 14:30-16:00 📍 1.010 Z6

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Can VR boost eyewitness accuracy? 👁️🕵️‍♂️ @alexandroskas.bsky.social will present the 3D Interactive Lineup (3DIL) — a new approach using VR to improve identification accuracy vs. traditional monoscopic 2D & 2.5D lineups. Poster B221 📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍 2.XXX Z6

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️@flxklotz.bsky.social will present EDIA, an open-source tool for building and conducting VR experiments in Unity, featuring a real-world example evaluating eye tracking performance across 5 VR headsets. Poster B208 📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30 📍 2.XXX Z6

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

How does loneliness shape our body’s responses? 💭🫀 @aleksanpi.bsky.social will dive into the link between loneliness and parasympathetic regulation, and outline future research directions into loneliness, interpersonal distance and physiological responses. 📆 Thu, June 19 | 16:30-18:00 📍 0.001 Z6

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We are excited to be headed to Würzburg for "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2025! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣 Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social

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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 · 02/06/2025

The Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social continues: it’s our turn to present the fascinating research work from the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group on how hormonal dynamics interact with neural dynamics, cognitive processes and mental health 👩‍🔬🧠🥚

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Thanks to the @cogneuroend.bsky.social for the constructive feedback and for highlighting our strengths, including our open-access tools and software! All of which can be found at: www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/neurology/mind-body-emotion/tools-software

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We’re at the Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social! This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Title: "Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation" @martager.bsky.social 📍 B23 📆 Monday, March 10th, 19:30-20:15 Does syncing with our heartbeat influence our sense of control over actions and their outcomes?

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Title: "Differentiation of Neuropsychological Post-COVID Symptoms using Heart Rate Variability" Mia Neubauer 📍 A25 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Can HRV offer a window into post-COVID cognitive impairment and fatigue?

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Title: "AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality" @toninfrc.bsky.social 📍 A04 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Discover AffectTracker – a versatile tool for continuous real-time tracking of affective states in iVR!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

...the meeting is in full swing - with SPR's president, Julian Thayer, at the bass.

Julian Thayer playing jazz music with a bass and other musicians

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Let's meet @therealspr.bsky.social @ Prague 🤝! 📆 Thu 2 pm, @toninfrc.bsky.social talks about "dynamics & physiology of affective experience in immersive VR" (Congress Hall) 📆 Fri 9:50 am, @mgblr.bsky.social co-chairs & talks at the symposium "brain-body coupling & affective states" (Panorama Hall)

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Kicking off the second day of the Brain-Body-Waves symposium with a great talk by @martager.bsky.social about the sense of agency and cardiorespiratory phase! #WAVES24

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Amazing start to the Body-Brain Waves Symposium in Salerno featuring our MBE group: @el-rei.bsky.social with a research question about vagus nerve and brain complexity drops @lucyroe.bsky.social with her MSc thesis on decoding dynamic affective states from neural and cardiac data #WAVES24

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Awesome kickstart to today’s @mpicbs.bsky.social Neurology Department retreat! 🚀

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Last slide for this years #PuG2024! Thanks a lot for the awesome organization, fruitful Symposia and of course the great social evening! 🚢 Looking forward to see you all at next year’s in Würzburg! 🏰

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Title: Mapping the Brain's Stress Response: Network Interactions in Functional Cortical Gradients P.103 (Session 1) @agatapatyczek.bsky.social Ever feel like interviews turn your brain into a circus? 🎪 Swing by my poster and find out why your salience network's hogging the spotlight!

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