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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

1/ I’m delighted to share our new paper, out now in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in gamified exploration-exploitation behaviours! 🧵 doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

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Cortical Microstructural Variations Correlate With Individual Differences in Gamified Exploration–Exploitation Behaviours | Computational Psychiatry

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 29/07/2026

After a long break, I’m back to long-form blogging! The first population atlas of the human vagus gives us an extraordinary wiring map. But what do the wires actually do? I connect it to new mouse psychophysics, organ-targeted ultrasound and our human findings. www.the-ecg.org/2026/07/29/v...

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The vagus has a map. Interoception still needs a model.

The first population-level atlas of the human vagus nerve has arrived. But a map of the wiring does not tell you what the wires are saying -- on va...

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 30/07/2026

Do mental health and interoceptive ability correlate? Check out our latest in Nature Mental Health!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/04/2026

GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 26/03/2026

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer.
Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 23/03/2026

1/ New preprint led by @kellyhoogervorst.bsky.social - Introducing MetaBites, a novel task measuring metacognition in nutritional judgements. Why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour? Could metacognitive biases explain the gap? #psychscisky 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

⏺ Graphical abstract for the MetaBites study. Three-panel layout flowing left to right. Left panel poses the research question: why does nutritional
knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour, testing caloric density versus nutritional quality (NRF 9.3). Centre panel shows the MetaBites task: a
two-alternative forced-choice between two food plates with a confidence slider, measuring sensitivity, confidence, and familiarity ratings in 32
participants across 300 trials. Right panel presents key findings: a faceted bar chart showing higher sensitivity for nutritional quality judgements
(d'=1.19 vs 1.10) but higher confidence for calorie judgements (68.2 vs 65.2); overlapping M-ratio distributions confirming higher metacognitive
efficiency for calories (1.03) than NRF (0.80); and a familiarity bias diagram showing familiar foods are judged as more nutritious and less caloric.
Conclusion states that a familiarity heuristic may partially explain why metacognitive insight for nutrition lags behind calories.

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 23/03/2026

Check out our latest research - how does metacognition guide our evaluation of food quality?

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 27/02/2026

Check out our new python package for interoception, breathwork, and respiratory motor control research!

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 15/10/2025

Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 02/09/2025

check our our latest update - a whole toolbox of stuff for interoceptive psychophysics!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/09/2025

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Absolutely loved discussing our recent @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper on IhmCurious YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTv...), thank you for having me! & to @micahgallen.com @brainandstomach.bsky.social & the @the-ecg.bsky.social team for all their hard work 🧠

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 31/07/2025

I have a gut feeling you will enjoy @the-ecg.bsky.social postdoc @leahbanellis.bsky.social discussing our recent publication on the stomach brain connection, out now in Nature Mental Health!

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Excited to chair @micahgallen.com 's fantastic seminar this Wednesday, June 25th at DPG! 🧠🫀 Join us in 📍 Room 2C, PSICO2 building. Don’t miss it! 🚀 #UniversityOfPadova #DepartmentOfGeneralPsychology

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I'm so grateful to write my first magazine article with Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... It features our preprint on 🫁 'Body-Wandering' 🫀 with invaluable guidance from @micahgallen.com and @themindwanders.bsky.social : biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 20/06/2025

Ever get distracted by your own body? We call this "body-wandering." 🧠🫀 Our latest study uncovers its neural fingerprint and the link to ADHD & depression symptoms. Awesome write-up by our own @leahbanellis.bsky.social, in Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... #neuroscience #research #ADHD

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How much you ‘body-wander’ could affect your mental health | Psyche Ideas

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 28/05/2025

Up next is the amazing @ashleytyrer.bsky.social presenting her recent preprint on beta blockade of cardiac and respiratory interoception.!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 28/05/2025

Thrilled to host a set of @the-ecg.bsky.social flash talks with our visiting colleague @beckety.bsky.social - organized by the excellent @ashleytyrer.bsky.social - first up is @acourtin.bsky.social talking about computational fMRI and pain learning!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 04/04/2025

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Aarhus University Student Survey

This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 19/03/2025

Busy day - check out our latest preprint, exploring domain specificity in cardiac and respiratory interoception!

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Very cool study!

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Extremely cool study for a “body-first” target approach to interoception and metacognition! 🫀🫁🧠💊 Looking forward to hearing more about it tomorrow during the Special Talk session at the #MindBrainBody Symposium #MBBS25

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

11/ I am exceedingly grateful for all the help and supervision from @micahgallen.com, without whom this project would not have been possible! Also for the support of our lab @the-ecg.bsky.social, @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu and CFIN @au.dk 🙏

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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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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 10/03/2025

Don't miss our latest study - a massive endeavour including MEG scans, pharmacological manipulation, and modelling of interoceptive psychophysics in a 50 N within subject design!

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Just the Facts: How Dialogues with AI Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs: osf.io/h7n8u_v1

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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 17/02/2025

I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏

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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The motivational drives of sickness: Acute changes in self-rated motivation during experimental endotoxemia using the the Motivation Scale of Sickness (MOSSick): osf.io/64qye_v1

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Stina Börchers, PhD @stinaborchers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🧠🍽️ Satiety neurons that make you crave sugar? 🍬 New research shows that POMC neurons, typically linked to appetite suppression, release opioids in the thalamus, flipping the switch to increase sugar intake. #neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite

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Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite

High sugar–containing foods are readily consumed, even after meals and beyond fullness sensation (e.g., as desserts). Although reward-driven processing of palatable foods can promote overeating, the n...

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Christine Ahrends @cahrends.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Read the short and sweet version of our new paper about predicting from brain dynamics, featured in elife digests magazine: elifesciences.org/digests/9512... #neuroskyence The intuition is that our approach uses a useful projection - like shining a light on an object and looking at its shadow

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Predicting individual traits from dynamic brain activity

A combination of machine-learning techniques and more traditional modeling approaches can use the unique patterns of brain activity that evolve over time to predict traits such as age and cognitive ab...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Serial dependence of confidence judgments reveals metacognitive adaptation: osf.io/f35br_v1

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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

Example stimuli of 15 object types are shown. Quadrants of object space are represented by different colors (orange: stubby animate-looking; purple: spiky animate-looking; pink: stubby inanimate-looking; green: spiky inanimate-looking; gray: all objects). Exerc. eq. = exercise equipment.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/01/2025

I’m thrilled to officially announce that starting March 2027, I’ll be a tenured full professor at the @aarhusuni.bsky.social Institute of Clinical Medicine!

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 19/11/2024

Impressive work from our colleagues in the BPP lab!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/11/2024

Out now in the Journal of Pain! In this impressive work, @francescafardo.bsky.social and colleagues developed a 2-dimensional psychophysical approach to model the thermal grill illusion of pain. www.jpain.org/article/S152... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/11/2024

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 29/10/2024

Don’t miss the latest from our lab - a stunning exploration of the neural, affective, and physiological dimensions of interoceptive “body-wandering”.

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