Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
@agatapatyczek.bsky.social
PhD researcher 👩🔬
Cognitive neuroscientist 🧠
Brain-body interaction 🫀🫁🧠
Lifespan development 👵
Music cognition!!! 🎹🎵🎶
Science communicator #scicomm
Working at:
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig
MPI for Human Development, Berlin
Cognitive neuroscientist 🧠
Brain-body interaction 🫀🫁🧠
Lifespan development 👵
Music cognition!!! 🎹🎵🎶
Science communicator #scicomm
Working at:
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig
MPI for Human Development, Berlin
Pinned
Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
Nick (@willenjoy.bsky.social) is obsessed with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). And for good reason! It could explain many results. Our simulation toolbox meegsim enables setting up SNR of individual sources as well as SNR of all signal sources with respect to all noise sources.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
meegsim.readthedocs.io
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nick (@willenjoy.bsky.social) is obsessed with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). And for good reason! It could explain many results. Our simulation toolbox meegsim enables setting up SNR of individual sources as well as SNR of all signal sources with respect to all noise sources.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
meegsim.readthedocs.io
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
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
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...
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
🧠🫀 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]
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]
How lovely!
ARTE released a nice trailer for the upcoming documentary on the vagus nerve, which will cover our ongoing work on gut-brain interactions.
It also features @neurometabolic.bsky.social, so I am sure it will be worth watching 👀
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
It also features @neurometabolic.bsky.social, so I am sure it will be worth watching 👀
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Vagusnerv: Wie das Hirn zum Herzen spricht - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Der Vagusnerv wird in der Medizin auch der Schlüssel zur Gesundheit genannt. Dieser bedeutende Nerv, der Gehirn und Körper verbindet, beeinflusst Atmung, Herzschlag und Verdauung. Viele Menschen könne...
www.arte.tv
September 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How lovely!
Bidirectional or integrated state?
Some food for thought about brain-body interaction in this concept paper by my supervisors Arno Villringer @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin.
Some food for thought about brain-body interaction in this concept paper by my supervisors Arno Villringer @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin.
'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 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bidirectional or integrated state?
Some food for thought about brain-body interaction in this concept paper by my supervisors Arno Villringer @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin.
Some food for thought about brain-body interaction in this concept paper by my supervisors Arno Villringer @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin.
Check out the AffectTracker to track your affect! Effectively track your affective processing ;)
Our studies confirmed AffectTracker is reliable, with high user experience and low interference. It opens new avenues for linking subjective experience to physiological dynamics. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub!
#OpenScience
#OpenScience
GitHub - afourcade/AffectTracker: AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality
AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality - afourcade/AffectTracker
github.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Check out the AffectTracker to track your affect! Effectively track your affective processing ;)
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
👥An amazing team effort by:
@fra-malandrone.bsky.social
@lucyroe.bsky.social
A. Ciston
@thefirstfloor.bsky.social
A. Villringer
S. Carletto
@michaelgaebler.com
#neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports
@fra-malandrone.bsky.social
@lucyroe.bsky.social
A. Ciston
@thefirstfloor.bsky.social
A. Villringer
S. Carletto
@michaelgaebler.com
#neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
👥An amazing team effort by:
@fra-malandrone.bsky.social
@lucyroe.bsky.social
A. Ciston
@thefirstfloor.bsky.social
A. Villringer
S. Carletto
@michaelgaebler.com
#neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports
@fra-malandrone.bsky.social
@lucyroe.bsky.social
A. Ciston
@thefirstfloor.bsky.social
A. Villringer
S. Carletto
@michaelgaebler.com
#neuroskyence #vr #emotion #affect #selfreports
Women's health is not just reproductive health! One of many Taboos we discussed at the "My Body, My Brain, My Choices" workshop created by @cogneuroend.bsky.social and hosted by @volkswagenstiftung.de.
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Women's health is not just reproductive health! One of many Taboos we discussed at the "My Body, My Brain, My Choices" workshop created by @cogneuroend.bsky.social and hosted by @volkswagenstiftung.de.
Was super fun to write this little piece with @el-rei.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Generally, its cool to write for kids and be REVIEWED by kids! Awesome reviews like "this is boring" or "this doesn't make sense" - real, honest and super helpful! Loved it, highly recommend.
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
[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]
September 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Was super fun to write this little piece with @el-rei.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Generally, its cool to write for kids and be REVIEWED by kids! Awesome reviews like "this is boring" or "this doesn't make sense" - real, honest and super helpful! Loved it, highly recommend.
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
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:
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
🧠 One week left to apply for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Highly recommended if you’re looking for 1) a stimulating environment to deepen theoretical insight in neuroscience and 2) genuine time to think, exchange ideas, and join in-depth discussions.
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🧠 One week left to apply for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Highly recommended if you’re looking for 1) a stimulating environment to deepen theoretical insight in neuroscience and 2) genuine time to think, exchange ideas, and join in-depth discussions.
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social
Today, we had our first run through the composition by Yongbom Lee, for the Interoception concert!
Turning bio signals into instruments to make a quintet (violin, harp, heart, respiration and brain signals).
📍Grassi Museum, Leipzig
⏳7th November
#scicomm
Turning bio signals into instruments to make a quintet (violin, harp, heart, respiration and brain signals).
📍Grassi Museum, Leipzig
⏳7th November
#scicomm
July 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today, we had our first run through the composition by Yongbom Lee, for the Interoception concert!
Turning bio signals into instruments to make a quintet (violin, harp, heart, respiration and brain signals).
📍Grassi Museum, Leipzig
⏳7th November
#scicomm
Turning bio signals into instruments to make a quintet (violin, harp, heart, respiration and brain signals).
📍Grassi Museum, Leipzig
⏳7th November
#scicomm
📰🗞️📢 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
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
🚨 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!
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
June 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
If you're in Leipzig tonight, come visit us at Long Night of Science!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
June 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If you're in Leipzig tonight, come visit us at Long Night of Science!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
Come try out a heart and breath monitor, make some music with your inner signals and play with a live harpist :) along the way learn about how your lungs and heart are connected and some tips on how to train your nervous system!
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
Study of trust in science in 68 countries finds Australia is the #1 high-income country for trust in science www.nature.com/articles/s41... (only Egypt, India, Kenya, and Nigeria were ahead)
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Study of trust in science in 68 countries finds Australia is the #1 high-income country for trust in science www.nature.com/articles/s41... (only Egypt, India, Kenya, and Nigeria were ahead)
So happy to see such a rich and big repertoire of events at the MPIB for Long Night of Science!
Wir öffnen unsere Türen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften! ✨
Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei!
📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94)
📆 28. Juni 2025
💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 €
🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...
Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei!
📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94)
📆 28. Juni 2025
💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 €
🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So happy to see such a rich and big repertoire of events at the MPIB for Long Night of Science!
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
We’re at the Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social!
This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠
This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠
June 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We’re at the Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social!
This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠
This morning, to shuffle things up, our group and our research work is being nicely introduced by the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group 🔬🧠
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part 🌍
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part 🌍
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
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
Reposted by Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈
Great new work on the link between thoughts and psychological traits! #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality).
Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab
elifesciences.org/articles/93689
Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab
elifesciences.org/articles/93689
Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits
Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.
elifesciences.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Great new work on the link between thoughts and psychological traits! #neuroskyence #psychscisky