Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him)
@nicohinrichs.bsky.social
#hyperscanning
@copla.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @oistedu.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI-CBS & OIST
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@copla.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @oistedu.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI-CBS & OIST
nicolashinrichs.de
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If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
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🎙Episode #75: A conversation about neural synchrony, how we might model the “third brain” that arises in interaction, and why misalignment matters. With biologist @nicohinrichs.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
Interbrain Synchrony, Human Connection & Hyperscanning with Nicolas Hinrichs
Listen now | What If Connection Isn’t Only About Being in Sync?
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🎙Episode #75: A conversation about neural synchrony, how we might model the “third brain” that arises in interaction, and why misalignment matters. With biologist @nicohinrichs.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
May our work benefit all (kinds of) beings.
Our new preprint argues that vulnerability and mortality are features, not bugs, for agents that adapt and provide care.
Now on Arxiv > CS.AI:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07117
With Christov-Moore, Juliani, Kiefer, Reggente, Rousse, Safron, Polani, and Damasio.
Our new preprint argues that vulnerability and mortality are features, not bugs, for agents that adapt and provide care.
Now on Arxiv > CS.AI:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07117
With Christov-Moore, Juliani, Kiefer, Reggente, Rousse, Safron, Polani, and Damasio.
October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
May our work benefit all (kinds of) beings.
Our new preprint argues that vulnerability and mortality are features, not bugs, for agents that adapt and provide care.
Now on Arxiv > CS.AI:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07117
With Christov-Moore, Juliani, Kiefer, Reggente, Rousse, Safron, Polani, and Damasio.
Our new preprint argues that vulnerability and mortality are features, not bugs, for agents that adapt and provide care.
Now on Arxiv > CS.AI:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07117
With Christov-Moore, Juliani, Kiefer, Reggente, Rousse, Safron, Polani, and Damasio.
On a Geometry for Interbrain Networks
Discrete Ricci curvature + entropy can reveal phase transitions and information routing in social neural dynamics.
Accepted to the 4th NeurReps neurreps.bsky.social workshop at NeurIPS neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025.
With Noah Guzmán & mweber.bsky.social.
Discrete Ricci curvature + entropy can reveal phase transitions and information routing in social neural dynamics.
Accepted to the 4th NeurReps neurreps.bsky.social workshop at NeurIPS neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025.
With Noah Guzmán & mweber.bsky.social.
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On a Geometry for Interbrain Networks
Discrete Ricci curvature + entropy can reveal phase transitions and information routing in social neural dynamics.
Accepted to the 4th NeurReps neurreps.bsky.social workshop at NeurIPS neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025.
With Noah Guzmán & mweber.bsky.social.
Discrete Ricci curvature + entropy can reveal phase transitions and information routing in social neural dynamics.
Accepted to the 4th NeurReps neurreps.bsky.social workshop at NeurIPS neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025.
With Noah Guzmán & mweber.bsky.social.
Thrilled to join the Steering Committee of the Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience @socphilneuro.bsky.social
I’ll contribute to shaping next year's conference with a fantastic team led by Danielle J. Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social and David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
I’ll contribute to shaping next year's conference with a fantastic team led by Danielle J. Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social and David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
August 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thrilled to join the Steering Committee of the Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience @socphilneuro.bsky.social
I’ll contribute to shaping next year's conference with a fantastic team led by Danielle J. Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social and David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
I’ll contribute to shaping next year's conference with a fantastic team led by Danielle J. Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social and David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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ECSU's @nicohinrichs.bsky.social just posted an update on his paper on 'Geometric Hyperscanning of Affect under Active Inference' on Arxiv!
Make sure to check out his collabo. with @mahault.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Yuyue Jiang, Leonardo Christov-Moore, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social
Make sure to check out his collabo. with @mahault.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Yuyue Jiang, Leonardo Christov-Moore, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social
If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
July 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
ECSU's @nicohinrichs.bsky.social just posted an update on his paper on 'Geometric Hyperscanning of Affect under Active Inference' on Arxiv!
Make sure to check out his collabo. with @mahault.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Yuyue Jiang, Leonardo Christov-Moore, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social
Make sure to check out his collabo. with @mahault.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Yuyue Jiang, Leonardo Christov-Moore, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social
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Hello, world! At the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit @oistedu.bsky.social in gorgeous Okinawa, we explore life and mind in terms of agent-environment interactions and do so via haptics, hyperscanning, and artificial life.
July 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hello, world! At the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit @oistedu.bsky.social in gorgeous Okinawa, we explore life and mind in terms of agent-environment interactions and do so via haptics, hyperscanning, and artificial life.
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Our latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠
Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback
Abstract. Social interaction is of fundamental importance to humans. Prior research has highlighted the link between interbrain synchrony and positive outcomes in human social interaction. Neurofeedba...
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠
Reposted by Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him)
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
June 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599
#neuroskyence #hyperscanning
Got to meet @davidchalmers.bsky.social and wonderful peers at the inaugural meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and Philosophy @socphilneuro.bsky.social at @washu.bsky.social
Go, MCCCs!
#SPAN2025
Go, MCCCs!
#SPAN2025
May 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Got to meet @davidchalmers.bsky.social and wonderful peers at the inaugural meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and Philosophy @socphilneuro.bsky.social at @washu.bsky.social
Go, MCCCs!
#SPAN2025
Go, MCCCs!
#SPAN2025
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Please check out my first published paper!
A Theory of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias in Major Depression, by Yuyue Jiang, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology.
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...
A Theory of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias in Major Depression, by Yuyue Jiang, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology.
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...
Frontiers | A theory of the neural mechanisms underlying negative cognitive bias in major depression
The widely acknowledged cognitive theory of depression, developed by Aaron Beck, focused on biased information processing that emphasizes the negative aspect...
journal.frontiersin.org
March 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Please check out my first published paper!
A Theory of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias in Major Depression, by Yuyue Jiang, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology.
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...
A Theory of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias in Major Depression, by Yuyue Jiang, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology.
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...
@jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social at @socphilneuro.bsky.social on the need of a psychopathological turn past the pre-paradigmatic heterogeneity of explanations of mental health disorders via a metatheoretic analysis towards a coherent and integrated framework built atop a taxonomic space of theories.
May 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social at @socphilneuro.bsky.social on the need of a psychopathological turn past the pre-paradigmatic heterogeneity of explanations of mental health disorders via a metatheoretic analysis towards a coherent and integrated framework built atop a taxonomic space of theories.
John Krakauer killing off Simulation Ideology for the 1st annual meeting of @socphilneuro.bsky.social!
@pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan?
Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today.
Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)
@pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan?
Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today.
Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)
May 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
John Krakauer killing off Simulation Ideology for the 1st annual meeting of @socphilneuro.bsky.social!
@pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan?
Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today.
Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)
@pessoabrain.bsky.social seems to be a fan?
Looking forward to the #DSPNW session later today.
Stoked to share my epistemic take on hyperscanning and some of the empiric work it stems from ;-)
Our eye-tracking experiment on cognitive effort modulation by valence and counterfactuality got accepted to #CogSci2025!
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our eye-tracking experiment on cognitive effort modulation by valence and counterfactuality got accepted to #CogSci2025!
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
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#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.
Call for Abstracts: „The Brain Abstracted“ by Mazviita Chirimuuta
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.
New protocol for dual infrared thermal imaging + video to track affective co-regulation in parent-infant dyads during the Still-Face Procedure!
Contactless, scalable, and clinically relevant.
Hinrichs (MPI-CBS/OIST), Attolini (Charité), Morgese, Nazzari & Provenzi (Pavia)
#DevPsy #OpenScience
Contactless, scalable, and clinically relevant.
Hinrichs (MPI-CBS/OIST), Attolini (Charité), Morgese, Nazzari & Provenzi (Pavia)
#DevPsy #OpenScience
April 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New protocol for dual infrared thermal imaging + video to track affective co-regulation in parent-infant dyads during the Still-Face Procedure!
Contactless, scalable, and clinically relevant.
Hinrichs (MPI-CBS/OIST), Attolini (Charité), Morgese, Nazzari & Provenzi (Pavia)
#DevPsy #OpenScience
Contactless, scalable, and clinically relevant.
Hinrichs (MPI-CBS/OIST), Attolini (Charité), Morgese, Nazzari & Provenzi (Pavia)
#DevPsy #OpenScience
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Join our Confirmation Bias class with Professor Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social! Learn to identify bias in your research and the skills to mitigate it.
Monday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
RSVP at bit.ly/3RzmdVH
Monday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
RSVP at bit.ly/3RzmdVH
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Join our Confirmation Bias class with Professor Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social! Learn to identify bias in your research and the skills to mitigate it.
Monday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
RSVP at bit.ly/3RzmdVH
Monday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
RSVP at bit.ly/3RzmdVH
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Finally a new textbook for theoretical neuroscience. Xiao-Jing Wang wrote a nice book with very broad coverage of the field. Highly recommend. www.amazon.com/Theoretical-...
Theoretical Neuroscience: Understanding Cognition
Theoretical Neuroscience: Understanding Cognition: 9781032604824: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Finally a new textbook for theoretical neuroscience. Xiao-Jing Wang wrote a nice book with very broad coverage of the field. Highly recommend. www.amazon.com/Theoretical-...
Reposted by Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him)
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
Where #hyperscanning overpromises and delivers. Come for the critique, stay for the enactive rethink.
Irene Senatore presents our work at #MindBrainBody 2025:
"Mapping Epistemic Priors of Hyperscanning Psychotherapy: The Asymmetry & Reciprocity Blindspots”
Tune in at mindbrainbody.de
Irene Senatore presents our work at #MindBrainBody 2025:
"Mapping Epistemic Priors of Hyperscanning Psychotherapy: The Asymmetry & Reciprocity Blindspots”
Tune in at mindbrainbody.de
MBB Symposium
mindbrainbody.de
March 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Where #hyperscanning overpromises and delivers. Come for the critique, stay for the enactive rethink.
Irene Senatore presents our work at #MindBrainBody 2025:
"Mapping Epistemic Priors of Hyperscanning Psychotherapy: The Asymmetry & Reciprocity Blindspots”
Tune in at mindbrainbody.de
Irene Senatore presents our work at #MindBrainBody 2025:
"Mapping Epistemic Priors of Hyperscanning Psychotherapy: The Asymmetry & Reciprocity Blindspots”
Tune in at mindbrainbody.de
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💥 The Ambassador programme starts today!
Today, our team are running induction calls to welcome the new cohort, with special talks from Dine Roseline Dzekem of our Global South Committee, Emmanuel Boakye from the African Reproducibility Network, and Laura Han from our Early-Career Advisory Group 💡
Today, our team are running induction calls to welcome the new cohort, with special talks from Dine Roseline Dzekem of our Global South Committee, Emmanuel Boakye from the African Reproducibility Network, and Laura Han from our Early-Career Advisory Group 💡
1/ From Brazil to South Korea, we’re excited to welcome 107 early-career researchers who are looking to promote responsible behaviours in science to the eLife Community Ambassador programme 🎉
https://buff.ly/3EYNfmE
https://buff.ly/3EYNfmE
March 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
💥 The Ambassador programme starts today!
Today, our team are running induction calls to welcome the new cohort, with special talks from Dine Roseline Dzekem of our Global South Committee, Emmanuel Boakye from the African Reproducibility Network, and Laura Han from our Early-Career Advisory Group 💡
Today, our team are running induction calls to welcome the new cohort, with special talks from Dine Roseline Dzekem of our Global South Committee, Emmanuel Boakye from the African Reproducibility Network, and Laura Han from our Early-Career Advisory Group 💡
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Chirimuuta at #NeuroExp2025: if cognition depends on its material substrate, at what cost could neuromorphic systems compute like brains?
Looking forward to talks by Matteo Colombo @tilburg-university.bsky.social, Fatma Deniz @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @neurograce.bsky.social
Streaming link below!
Looking forward to talks by Matteo Colombo @tilburg-university.bsky.social, Fatma Deniz @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @neurograce.bsky.social
Streaming link below!
February 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Chirimuuta at #NeuroExp2025: if cognition depends on its material substrate, at what cost could neuromorphic systems compute like brains?
Looking forward to talks by Matteo Colombo @tilburg-university.bsky.social, Fatma Deniz @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @neurograce.bsky.social
Streaming link below!
Looking forward to talks by Matteo Colombo @tilburg-university.bsky.social, Fatma Deniz @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @neurograce.bsky.social
Streaming link below!
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Mapping the Semantic-Pragmatic Continuum: Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Insights: http://osf.io/n3khy_v1/
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Mapping the Semantic-Pragmatic Continuum: Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Insights: http://osf.io/n3khy_v1/
We present a prospective framework for cognitive neuropragmatics!
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler
February 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We present a prospective framework for cognitive neuropragmatics!
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler