Antonin Fourcade
@toninfrc.bsky.social
PhD student at Max Planck School of Cognition and MPI CBS/MPDCC (Berlin). Background in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. Interested in brain-heart interactions, emotions and VR
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Antonin Fourcade
@toninfrc.bsky.social
· Sep 23
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
📢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.
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
How the brain listens to the body matters.
Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
From Body to Brain and Back: Multimodal Evidence for Interoceptive Alterations in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
When the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, p...
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM
How the brain listens to the body matters.
Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience?
Spoiler: that’s completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
🧩 Reusable modules
📊 Data sync
🕶️ Multi-headset support
And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
Spoiler: that’s completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
🧩 Reusable modules
📊 Data sync
🕶️ Multi-headset support
And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience?
Spoiler: that’s completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
🧩 Reusable modules
📊 Data sync
🕶️ Multi-headset support
And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
Spoiler: that’s completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
🧩 Reusable modules
📊 Data sync
🕶️ Multi-headset support
And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
Symposium 1.1, here we go!
To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi...
@toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi...
@toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Symposium 1.1, here we go!
To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi...
@toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi...
@toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
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
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
'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...
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
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 ✨
📢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.
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
📣 We're at the #MindBrainBody Symposium in Berlin, starting today! Looking forward to connect with everyone and share our latest research 🧠
Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌
#MBBS24 #neuroskyence
Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌
#MBBS24 #neuroskyence
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📣 We're at the #MindBrainBody Symposium in Berlin, starting today! Looking forward to connect with everyone and share our latest research 🧠
Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌
#MBBS24 #neuroskyence
Our group has an exciting lineup of posters - come chat with us! 💬 Check out the previews below to see where and when to meet us 📌
#MBBS24 #neuroskyence
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
Tools and Software
www.cbs.mpg.de
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
December 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky
Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share!
go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32
Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share!
go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32
September 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky
Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share!
go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32
Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share!
go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
Title: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality
P.361 (Session 1)
@toninfrc.bsky.social
In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!
P.361 (Session 1)
@toninfrc.bsky.social
In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!
May 28, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Title: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality
P.361 (Session 1)
@toninfrc.bsky.social
In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!
P.361 (Session 1)
@toninfrc.bsky.social
In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!
Reposted by Antonin Fourcade
🚀Happy our preprint is out!🧠🫀🥽Using immersive VR, we investigated how our emotional experience relates to the interaction between brain & heart activities
tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e
with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦
1/7 ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e
with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦
1/7 ⬇️
January 11, 2024 at 9:15 AM
🚀Happy our preprint is out!🧠🫀🥽Using immersive VR, we investigated how our emotional experience relates to the interaction between brain & heart activities
tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e
with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦
1/7 ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yxn3vk8e
with @flxklotz.bsky.social @smnhfmnn.bsky.social @langestroop.bsky.social V.Nikulin A.Villringer @mgblr.bsky.social 🧠🟦
1/7 ⬇️