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Antonin Fourcade

@toninfrc.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at @mps-cognition.bsky.social and @mpicbs.bsky.social/MPDCC (Berlin) in the @mbe-lab.bsky.social. Background in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. Interested in brain-heart interactions, emotions and VR.

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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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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📖 AffectTracker: www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...
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Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality
Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏
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Your Input for AffectTracker 2D
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...
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🎉 Excited to share the fruits of an awesome collaboration with @aleksanpi! Check out our new preprint! Thread below 🧵👇
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows? BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 www.bbsig.de We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions #neuroskyence
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Overview - Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)
Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) - reproducible, open-access pipelines for peripheral physiology analysis
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Glad to hear! Too bad you’re not there this year, but you can still tell us how you’d like to use it right here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... That would be super valuable to us!
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Your Input for AffectTracker 2D
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...
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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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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Another poster at the #MindBrainBody Symposium. We need your input!
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Come check out our work at the #MindBrainBody Symposium!
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Deniz Yilmaz @deniz-yilmaz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
How the brain listens to the body matters. Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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From Body to Brain and Back: Multimodal Evidence for Interoceptive Alterations in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
When the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, p...
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Alexandros Kastrinogiannis @alexandroskas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience? Spoiler: that’s completely normal! Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity. 🧩 Reusable modules 📊 Data sync 🕶️ Multi-headset support And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
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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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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de
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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health' by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body statesVillringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀 I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️ 👉 Share it widely with curious young minds Yay for #scicomm ✨
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Our studies confirmed AffectTracker is reliable, with high user experience and low interference. It opens new avenues for linking subjective experience to physiological dynamics. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub! #OpenScience
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GitHub - afourcade/AffectTracker: AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality
AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality - afourcade/AffectTracker
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
👥An amazing team effort by: @fra-malandrone.bsky.social @lucyroe.bsky.social A. Ciston @thefirstfloor.bsky.social A. Villringer S. Carletto @michaelgaebler.com #neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
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Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality
Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📣 We're at the #MindBrainBody Symposium in Berlin, starting today! Looking forward to connect with everyone and share our latest research 🧠 Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌 #MBBS24 #neuroskyence
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency
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Tools and Software
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The 1-min videos in study 1 are monoscopic, chosen as intermediate stimuli between static images and long videos to extend the classical short event-related stimulus approach. Also finding suitable free videos was challenging. Study 2's 23-min video is stereoscopic, a step further in stimuli type
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
3️⃣Tool offers a novel way to study affective dynamics with minimal interference, effectively capturing the nuances of subjective experiences. It opens new research opportunities to link affective states with physiological dynamics 🌟Stay tuned for the full paper & we welcome feedback & discussions! 💭
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
2️⃣Empirically evaluated in 2 studies at 2 sites (Berlin & Torino; N = 134) with both shorter 1-min 360° videos (low affective variability [AV] 〰️) and longer more dynamic 23-min stimulus (high AV 📈) Both Grid & Flubber ➡️ high user experience 😃 & low interference with the affective experience itself
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
1️⃣Participants can rate in real-time and continuously, using the touchpad or joystick of a VR controller 🎮(here: HTC Vive Pro). It comprises three customizable feedback options: a simplified affect grid (Grid), an abstract pulsating variant (Flubber), and no visual feedback (Proprioceptive)
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
👥Together with F.Malandrone @lucyroe.bsky.social A.Ciston @thefirstfloor.bsky.social A.Villringer S.Carletto @michaelgaebler.com 🛠️ Unity prefab: github.com/afourcade/Af...
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GitHub - afourcade/AffectTracker: AffectTracker
AffectTracker. Contribute to afourcade/AffectTracker development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share! go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Title: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality P.361 (Session 1) @toninfrc.bsky.social In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!
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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments 💬 #PuG2024
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Thank you!
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
The picture was made using the AI image generator DALL-E3
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
We contribute to shed light on the complex relationship between emotions & the nervous systems (or MindBrainBody coupling) under naturalistic stimulation. 🌟 Stay tuned for the full paper & we’re very happy about feedback and discussions! 💭 (Illustration: DALL-E3)
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
However, whole-brain exploratory analyses revealed a temporo-occipital cluster, where higher EA was linked to decreased 🧠➡️🫀  brain-to-heart (gamma→HF-HRV) and increased 🫀➡️🧠heart-to-brain (LF-HRV→gamma) information flow.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
4️⃣ Physiological modeling (using a method by @diegocandiar and others) did not provide evidence for our hypothesis that higher EA changes the bidirectional information flow between HF-HRV & posterior alpha power. 🧠🔁🫀
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
3️⃣ Combining🧠EEG & 🫀 ECG, higher EA was also associated with lower heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) amplitudes in a left fronto-central electrode cluster. This may indicate that stronger emotional states change the importance of signals from the outer world & the inner body.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
2️⃣ Higher EA was linked to 🫀 lower vagal cardioregulation (high-frequency heart rate variability, HF-HRV) and🧠lower posterior (parieto-occipital) alpha power.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
1️⃣ 29 healthy adults experienced virtual🎢while we recorded the electrical activity in their🧠(#EEG) and 🫀 (#ECG). They then continuously rated the intensity of their emotional experience (emotional arousal, EA) while viewing a replay.
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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
🚀Happy our preprint is out!🧠🫀🥽Using immersive VR, we investigated how our emotional experience relates to the interaction between brain & heart activities tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦 1/7 ⬇️
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