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
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 ⬇️