Martina Saltafossi
@martinasaltafossi.bsky.social
PhD student at @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social | IBB (University of Münster)
fascinated by body-brain coupling, interoception, neuropsychiatric disorders, M-EEG
fascinated by body-brain coupling, interoception, neuropsychiatric disorders, M-EEG
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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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
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👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study
Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness
to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results
reveal a dominant role of sti...
www.cell.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
Reposted by Martina Saltafossi
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
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More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Imagined movement increases the segregation of brain-heart networks
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 ...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information
Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus - Nature Communications
Whether and how anatomically distinct regions of the superior colliculus (SC) exhibit specialisation in multisensory temporal integration to facilitate different behavioural responses are not fully un...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information
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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
Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨
📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨
📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de
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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...
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Spontaneous thoughts, occupying much of one’s awake time in daily life, are often colored by emotional qualities. While spontaneous thoughts have been associated with various neural correlates, the re...
www.jneurosci.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
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This takes care of the usual autocorrelation issues in the surrogates and computes cluster mass based on complex representations in the polar plane so we can reliably control error rates in phase-related analyses. Putting together a quick tutorial paper plus open GitHub repo right now, more soon!
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This takes care of the usual autocorrelation issues in the surrogates and computes cluster mass based on complex representations in the polar plane so we can reliably control error rates in phase-related analyses. Putting together a quick tutorial paper plus open GitHub repo right now, more soon!
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Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.
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Stats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Stats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.
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Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679456v1
October 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679456v1
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Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...
Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health
Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...
www.psypost.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...
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
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
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
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What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
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'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 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
'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...
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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...
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
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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...
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...
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Finally, we'll have the Brain-Body States Symposium on Friday morning, featuring @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Finally, we'll have the Brain-Body States Symposium on Friday morning, featuring @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.
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On Wednesday, non-Bluesky PhD student Teresa Berther will share her poster on gut-brain interactions.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
On Wednesday, non-Bluesky PhD student Teresa Berther will share her poster on gut-brain interactions.
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On Tuesday, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social will present her poster on respiration and E:I balance in temporal lobe epilepsy.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
On Tuesday, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social will present her poster on respiration and E:I balance in temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Brain-body #neuroskyence conferences continue with #ICON2025 this week!
Having just arrived from Adriatica Summer School in Pescara, the B³ Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social will share their latest work on respiratory and gastric modulation of the brain in health and disease.
Having just arrived from Adriatica Summer School in Pescara, the B³ Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social will share their latest work on respiratory and gastric modulation of the brain in health and disease.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Brain-body #neuroskyence conferences continue with #ICON2025 this week!
Having just arrived from Adriatica Summer School in Pescara, the B³ Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social will share their latest work on respiratory and gastric modulation of the brain in health and disease.
Having just arrived from Adriatica Summer School in Pescara, the B³ Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social will share their latest work on respiratory and gastric modulation of the brain in health and disease.
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🚀 Excited to share our lab’s contributions at #ICON2025 in Porto!
Catch talks & posters from
@aprilzhao.bsky.social
@asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
@fabian31415.bsky.social
@estebanbt.bsky.social
Catch talks & posters from
@aprilzhao.bsky.social
@asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
@fabian31415.bsky.social
@estebanbt.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🚀 Excited to share our lab’s contributions at #ICON2025 in Porto!
Catch talks & posters from
@aprilzhao.bsky.social
@asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
@fabian31415.bsky.social
@estebanbt.bsky.social
Catch talks & posters from
@aprilzhao.bsky.social
@asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
@fabian31415.bsky.social
@estebanbt.bsky.social
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📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!
I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.
I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.
September 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!
I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.
I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.
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Mit diesem offenen Abschlusspanel zur Frage 'Was hätte ich gerne während meiner Promotion schon gewusst?' endet die Adriatica Summer School 2025 in Pescara. Das gibt mir die Gelegenheit, die Speaker (v.l.n.r) für diejenigen unter euch vorzustellen, die fernab dieses Profils weiterlesen wollen:
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Mit diesem offenen Abschlusspanel zur Frage 'Was hätte ich gerne während meiner Promotion schon gewusst?' endet die Adriatica Summer School 2025 in Pescara. Das gibt mir die Gelegenheit, die Speaker (v.l.n.r) für diejenigen unter euch vorzustellen, die fernab dieses Profils weiterlesen wollen:
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Ihr Lieben, meine Woche hier geht zuende, und da morgen ein langer Reisetag ist, verabschiede ich mich schon mal von euch. Es geht morgen von Pescara nach Porto, wo am Montag die nächste Konferenz startet - die ICON 2025 ist viele Nummern größer als die beschauliche Summer School der letzten Woche.
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ihr Lieben, meine Woche hier geht zuende, und da morgen ein langer Reisetag ist, verabschiede ich mich schon mal von euch. Es geht morgen von Pescara nach Porto, wo am Montag die nächste Konferenz startet - die ICON 2025 ist viele Nummern größer als die beschauliche Summer School der letzten Woche.
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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 ✨
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 ✨
🧠🫀 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
[1/2]
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 8:26 AM
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 ✨
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 ✨