Niket
@niketag.bsky.social
Cognitive Science masters, exploring social psych, emotions - mental health, interoception & qualitative research
actively looking for PhD opportunities in related fields
actively looking for PhD opportunities in related fields
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Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper.
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper.
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
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🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making
Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use?
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
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In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use?
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
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How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
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🚨New Publication!🚨 When doing research with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), it is important to consider one major potential confound: retinal phosphenes. They may affect your data significantly, which is what we discuss here!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🚨New Publication!🚨 When doing research with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), it is important to consider one major potential confound: retinal phosphenes. They may affect your data significantly, which is what we discuss here!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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It’s getting serious! 🚀😊
Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social
#vrcademicsky #vrresearch
Stay tuned!
Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social
#vrcademicsky #vrresearch
Stay tuned!
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s getting serious! 🚀😊
Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social
#vrcademicsky #vrresearch
Stay tuned!
Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social
#vrcademicsky #vrresearch
Stay tuned!
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biased because I just saw Diego Bohórquez give a very impressive talk but any of his work on gut-brain connections (e.g. www.science.org/doi/full/10....)
A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction
A neuroepithelial circuit that connects the intestinal lumen to the brain stem in one synapse has been identified.
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
biased because I just saw Diego Bohórquez give a very impressive talk but any of his work on gut-brain connections (e.g. www.science.org/doi/full/10....)
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Been thinking for a few years about what I call the *replication ceiling*: the maximum replicability of an effect given constraints in data in which replication takes place (power, measurement error, sampling variability, etc). This leads to a maximum theoretical replicability which can be achieved.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Been thinking for a few years about what I call the *replication ceiling*: the maximum replicability of an effect given constraints in data in which replication takes place (power, measurement error, sampling variability, etc). This leads to a maximum theoretical replicability which can be achieved.
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
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Today, I teach the (graduate) kids about long-term memory. I'm bringing along my 3D print of HM's brain, made from post-mortem histology. #neuroscience
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today, I teach the (graduate) kids about long-term memory. I'm bringing along my 3D print of HM's brain, made from post-mortem histology. #neuroscience
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📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
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This is a very nice cross-species articulation of findings and challenges in body-brain and brain-body processing. Recommended reading for anyone interested in dipping their toes into this broad and rapidly developing area!
New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...
From cognition in the body to the body in cognition
Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform
the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model
systems.
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is a very nice cross-species articulation of findings and challenges in body-brain and brain-body processing. Recommended reading for anyone interested in dipping their toes into this broad and rapidly developing area!
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Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
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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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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...
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Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...
Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
socialaffectiveneuro.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...
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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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Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵
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Passed with minor corrections! Thanks to my family for their support, to @drmlfil.bsky.social and @saraslt.bsky.social for their wonderful supervision, and to all the PPI contributors. Thanks to Dr Rebecca Brewer and Dr Helge Gillmeister for a great viva conversation! #interoception #autism #sleep
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Passed with minor corrections! Thanks to my family for their support, to @drmlfil.bsky.social and @saraslt.bsky.social for their wonderful supervision, and to all the PPI contributors. Thanks to Dr Rebecca Brewer and Dr Helge Gillmeister for a great viva conversation! #interoception #autism #sleep
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Long-term ECG data have great potential to expand research into diurnal variation of heart rate variability, beyond short-term measures of resting state. Data processing, however, is labor intensive. Led by Maximilian Schmaußer, we compared the performance of open-source tool boxes 1/2
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Long-term ECG data have great potential to expand research into diurnal variation of heart rate variability, beyond short-term measures of resting state. Data processing, however, is labor intensive. Led by Maximilian Schmaußer, we compared the performance of open-source tool boxes 1/2
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New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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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
[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 8:21 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
[1/2]