Paul Steinfath
@paulsteinfath.bsky.social
PhD student at MPI-CBS. I like brain-body interactions and plants.
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Neuroscientists of the bluest sky:
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Neuroscientists of the bluest sky:
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
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Noise as a Signal – Moritz Gerster, Vadim Nikulin & Arno Villringer analysed data from 119 patients & discovered a new electrical signature of #Parkinson’s Disease, now published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social: www.cbs.mpg.de/2412209/2025...
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease
Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease
www.cbs.mpg.de
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Noise as a Signal – Moritz Gerster, Vadim Nikulin & Arno Villringer analysed data from 119 patients & discovered a new electrical signature of #Parkinson’s Disease, now published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social: www.cbs.mpg.de/2412209/2025...
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
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Now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social!
📖 Read the open-access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility
📖 Read the open-access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Emma Bailey, Falk Eippert, et al:
Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Emma Bailey, Falk Eippert, et al:
Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
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As part of the Toolbox Bouquet, @studenova.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on simulations of M/EEG activity and connectivity with the MEEGsim toolbox! You’re very welcome to join us on Oct 30th between 2 and 5pm 😉
More details will follow soon 🔜
More details will follow soon 🔜
#PracticalMEEG2025 is coming up soon |Oct 28–30| and we’re full!
But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis.
💐Free but mandatory registration 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis.
💐Free but mandatory registration 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
As part of the Toolbox Bouquet, @studenova.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on simulations of M/EEG activity and connectivity with the MEEGsim toolbox! You’re very welcome to join us on Oct 30th between 2 and 5pm 😉
More details will follow soon 🔜
More details will follow soon 🔜
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Fresh from the press 🍃
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Fresh from the press 🍃
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Find something the insula is not a hub for challenge.
October 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Find something the insula is not a hub for challenge.
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We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)
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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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In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x
August 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x
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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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If you're contemplating new study to start,
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.
September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you're contemplating new study to start,
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Do you want to simulate EEG/MEG but don't know where to start? Don't start with ChatGPT, start with *pip install meegsim*.
We (me and @willenjoy.bsky.social) have just released v.0.0.2. Our toolbox generates EEG/MEG using template waveforms with ground truth source activity.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
We (me and @willenjoy.bsky.social) have just released v.0.0.2. Our toolbox generates EEG/MEG using template waveforms with ground truth source activity.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Do you want to simulate EEG/MEG but don't know where to start? Don't start with ChatGPT, start with *pip install meegsim*.
We (me and @willenjoy.bsky.social) have just released v.0.0.2. Our toolbox generates EEG/MEG using template waveforms with ground truth source activity.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
We (me and @willenjoy.bsky.social) have just released v.0.0.2. Our toolbox generates EEG/MEG using template waveforms with ground truth source activity.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?
In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?
In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
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The respiratory phase causally modulates the readiness potential amplitude https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.666697v1
July 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The respiratory phase causally modulates the readiness potential amplitude https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.666697v1
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Does #interoception necessarily involve awareness of the inner bodily signals?
1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No
📊 Show results
1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No
📊 Show results
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Does #interoception necessarily involve awareness of the inner bodily signals?
1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No
📊 Show results
1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣️ No
📊 Show results
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📰🗞️📢 Science Streets received this wonderful funding from Daimler and Benz Foundation for Innovative Science Communication! We are beyond excited to receive the financial support to make Science Streets a reality! News will continue!
#scicomm #comics #neuroscience
#scicomm #comics #neuroscience
July 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📰🗞️📢 Science Streets received this wonderful funding from Daimler and Benz Foundation for Innovative Science Communication! We are beyond excited to receive the financial support to make Science Streets a reality! News will continue!
#scicomm #comics #neuroscience
#scicomm #comics #neuroscience
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If you found out a paper with striking results,
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you found out a paper with striking results,
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.
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🚨 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!
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!
July 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚨 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!
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!
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Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky
#compneuro #psychscisky
N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task
Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...
dx.plos.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky
#compneuro #psychscisky
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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.
Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real?
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paul Steinfath, Arno Villringer, et al:
Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
June 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real?
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.