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Olivier Desmedt

@olivierdesmedt.bsky.social
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Post-Doc working on interoception (its conceptualization, measurement, and role in emotions and addictive disorders)

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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Recommendations for addressing demand artifacts have been discussed in a fragmented way, and some widely used approaches have notable limitations. In this new article, my co-authors and I provide a structured review of leading methods in the field:
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Evgeny Parfenov @ea-parfenov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our article on the relationships between the heartbeat counting task (HCT) and psychological measures is finally out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Following @olivierdesmedt.bsky.social line of research, we found a moderation effect of the instructions on the relationship between HCT and STAI-T.
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Testing the correlation between the heartbeat counting task and anxiety, depression and alexithymia scales: a behavioural study and meta-analysis
Abstract. A link between interoceptive accuracy, as measured by the heartbeat counting task (HCT), and psychological phenomena like anxiety, alexithymia an
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
📣 ESCAN 2026 – Symposium deadline Good news! The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17. The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16. 🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
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Important dates - ESCAN 2026
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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just accepted 🎉 An integrative review on interoception and perception: Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes; perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation; neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies 🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM
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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thrilled to share this new preprint, co-authored with @peterlush.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard! We offer a broad and structured discussion of leading methods developed in the past >60 years to tackle demand artifacts in psychological research and beyond. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Olivier Desmedt @olivierdesmedt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned: Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures. This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 27/08/2025
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
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Jérôme Lecoq @jeromelecoq.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/03/2025
Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
A graphical abstract titled "Can Beta-Blockers Manipulate Interoception? A Placebo-Controlled Study." The image illustrates how bisoprolol and propranolol affect interoception. On the left, a green figure represents bisoprolol, showing a zoomed-in synapse where it selectively blocks β1 receptors. On the right, a purple figure represents propranolol, blocking both β1 and β2 receptors, affecting both brain and body. A psychophysics graph models interoceptive responses, showing response intensity over trials. Below, line plots compare placebo, propranolol, and bisoprolol effects on interoception—cardioception (threshold) and respiroception (slope)—indicating drug effects on bodily awareness.
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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In a recent @natrevpsych.bsky.social paper, we argued that self-reports are superior to implicit measures for most research questions. A Commentary raised concerns about our conclusion. Our Reply addresses these concerns and explains why we stand by our conclusion www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reply to ‘Temporal stability in measurements matters only for stable constructs’ - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Reply to ‘Temporal stability in measurements matters only for stable constructs’
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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Dr Jenny Murphy @drjjmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy is hard in adults, let alone in infants! Such fun turning my brain to this alongside the wonderful Rosie Donaghy, Matteo Lisi and Jeanne Shinskey. Our musings on possible ways forward now accepted in psychophysiology: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy: lessons from the adult literature
PDF | Models of interoception, the processing of internal bodily signals, highlight infancy as a key period for interoceptive learning. Given the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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