Aleksandra Piejka
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
PhD in Psychology | Visiting researcher @ Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social at MPI CBS @mpicbs.bsky.social | social determinants of health, psychophysiology, affective science (she/her)
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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!
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!
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Aleksandra Piejka
In some way, it's trivial:
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
'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...
by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
In some way, it's trivial:
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
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📢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.
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.
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...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢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.
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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🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:
Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate
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...
www.frontiersin.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:
Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
[1/2]
Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do
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August 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do
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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology
Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...
www.nature.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Reposted by Aleksandra Piejka
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
June 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
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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!
@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!
June 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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!
@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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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 👤🧠👓
June 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, don’t miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧
If you're in Leipzig tonight, come visit us at Long Night of Science!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
June 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, don’t miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals 🫁🫀🎧
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Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability 🧠
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
June 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability 🧠
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
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Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR 👁️🕵️♀️
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
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
@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
June 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR 👁️🕵️♀️
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
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Don’t miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.social’s poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease 🧠👓
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
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
Poster B208
📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍 2.XXX Z6
June 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Don’t miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.social’s poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease 🧠👓
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
🗓️ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
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Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
June 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
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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
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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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 🌍
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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Attending #PuG2025 in Würzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social 🔍
More details soon!
More details soon!
Das detaillierte Programm der Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social ist jetzt online und hier zu sehen: www.pug2025.org/de/programm
Programm | PuG2025
www.pug2025.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Attending #PuG2025 in Würzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social 🔍
More details soon!
More details soon!
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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
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
Tools and Software
www.cbs.mpg.de
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
Reposted by Aleksandra Piejka
