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Alex Galvez-Pol
@alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience: Active sensing & Interoception ☝️👁️🔄🫀🧠 Univ. of the Balearic Islands @uib.cat | former fellow at UCL

PI of the Active Cognition, Embodiment & Environment Lab: ACE2Lab.com
Dir. MA's degree Cognition & Society
Pinned
🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠

We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.

In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn

1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀
"...support hypothesis that spontaneous spatially structured fluctuations in brain-wide physiology on timescales of seconds ... are in large part expressions of lowdimensional, organism-wide dynamical system"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
Article: "An active-inference approach to second-person neuroscience"

Coauthors: Konrad Lehmann, Dimitris Bolis, Leonhard Schilbach, Maxwell JD Ramstead, Philipp Kanske

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
🤖 Prominent AI scientists call for a halt to the “uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia” in an open letter.

The authors of the position paper oppose… insist that “university leaders and administrators must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software” (sic).
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This seems quite useful:

"Which Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Indices Should I Use for Psychophysiological Research? A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Clusters of HRV Indices" (in Psychophysiology)

doi.org/10.1111/psyp... 🫀
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This looks super cool; by @jtheriault.bsky.social
By the way congrats really!
It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s ...
www.cell.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
Submissions will OPEN 30 October for the 2026 APS Annual Convention taking place in Barcelona! (Closing 5 December) #APS26BCN

Learn more about the upcoming program and save the date www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
I did a small thing for the BBC on the remarkable increase in people listening to ambient music.

Here

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and here

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Why modern life has us turning to ambient music - BBC Sounds
Dani Thomas explores the genre's surge in popularity
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
4x días para aplicar a esta fantástica oportunidad, con @mbaborebelo.bsky.social al frente; check below the position! and please RT 🙏
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self

We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics
Sigh-induced structural changes lower alveolar surface stress through a mechanical response.
www.science.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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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...
'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...
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start?

🎮 Choose your character

👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin

🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
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...
'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...
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our mobile lab is now ready 🚐!
September 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Alex Galvez-Pol
How do perceptual processes contribute to the development of psychiatric illness? @skhalsa.bsky.social and I have compiled this volume with experts from across the world to begin to answer this question.
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

rdcu.be/eGUrv
Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature
Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just coming back from Adriatica Summer School ⛱️☀️ thanks to the organizers and all attendees for such fun and smart interactions!
September 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Incredibly impressed with the calibre of research by Ye Ella Tian showing the importance of multi-organ bodily health including immunometabolics (at Adriatica Summer School 🏖️)
#teamlab #mambolab #psychologywellbeing_ch #fraferri_78 #erasmus_uda
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM