Author summary Conventional best-practice statistical approaches have so far been difficult to implement in cases where the underlying data are circular, for example in the analysis of phase data. Suc...

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When two people synchronize their breathing together, their heart rhythms also synchronize, while their intrapersonal cardiorespiratory rhythms become decoupled, with a perturbed phase-relationship b...

This study shows that beta-band suppression time-locked to the heartbeat is a reliable neural marker of interoceptive processing, with a distinct fronto-cingulo-somatosensory signature that different...

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Wanna know what your participants really feel when watching movies? Current affective science often relies on static summary ratings that miss the rich temporal dynamics of our emotions. To bridge th...

Heartbeat-evoked responses (HER) are a widely used marker for interoception. However, our systematic review revealed considerable methodological variability and a lack of reporting standards, likely ...

Nature Communications - Breathing shapes perception: Inspiration upregulates arousal and excitability, sharpening sensitivity to visual signals. By aligning respiration with task timing, people...

Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this g...

A central challenge in supporting learning and designing learning environments is to understand individual differences in learning experiences. However, despite growing interest in examining learning ...

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

Human social behaviour unfolds in complex real-world environments shaped by social and acoustic factors, yet markers of social engagement and connection remain elusive. Interpersonal physiological syn...

The field of interoception research is growing at a rapid pace. This Perspective highlights why establishing both mechanistic insight and construct validity will be critical prerequisites for developi...

Understanding the mechanisms of motor imagery, the mental simulation of movement without execution, is key for the development of neurotechnologies. For instance, for detecting covert motor intent in ...

Interoceptive accuracy, the ability to correctly perceive internal body signals such as heartbeats, has been empirically and theoretically linked to s…

Our findings deepen growing interest in how exteroception and interoception interact. We show that respiration modulates speeded responses and multisensory integration, with peak effects during trans....

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes