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Kamela Cenka
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plosbiology.org
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
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Kamela Cenka
caplab.bsky.social
We have a new visiting PhD student!!

Kamela Cenka is following the Joint PhD Program in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bologna, supervised by Prof. Alessio Avenanti. During her research visit at CAPLAB, she will investigate brain-body interactions and early visual attention.
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Kamela Cenka
soniaturrini.bsky.social
We got published in Science Advances!

While I’d love to claim full credit and bask in the glory, I suppose I should also thank my colleagues and boss for doing their part.

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
State-dependent associative plasticity highlights function-specific premotor-motor pathways crucial for arbitrary visuomotor mapping
State-dependent neuroplasticity affects physiological and behavioral outputs of functionally specific premotor-motor projections.
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM