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Marta Gerosa
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Cognitive Neuroscience and musical theatre enthusiast | PhD candidate @mpicbs.bsky.social @mbe-lab.bsky.social | she/her | Steering Committee @igor-dgps.bsky.social | Alumna IUSS UniPv | bodily self, brain-body interactions, interoception, agency 🧠🫀🫁
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · Feb 22
Amazed to hit 1k on Bluesky - time for a re-introduction! 👋

I’m Marta, a PhD researcher at MPI CBS @mbe-lab.bsky.social working on how cardiorespiratory signals contribute to our bodily self-awareness🫀🫁🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky

Here’s a 🧵 of things I’m passionate about: [1/5]
martager.bsky.social
Congrats to @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social and colleagues on having this great study finally out!
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 2d
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 1:02 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 2d
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 11:01 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
michaelgaebler.com
It’s getting serious! 🚀😊

Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social

#vrcademicsky #vrresearch

Stay tuned!
Numbers of Countdown to launch
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
therealspr.bsky.social
Check out the new Psychophysiology special issue "Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations". Submit by 28 February 2026! @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
igor-dgps.bsky.social
🚀 Our monthly BIDS Consultation Hours are back!

Bring your questions and conversion challenges to get personalized feedback from experienced BIDS users and learn how to make your datasets more shareable and reproducible 🧠♻️

📅 Friday, Oct 24 | 12:00 PM CET
🔗 Info & materials: tinyurl.com/igor-bids
juliuswelzel.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
helenahartmann.com
Have you ever tried explaining your research with ... a short story?! 🤔

Believe me, it's extremely gratifying to change your perspective and let your creativity run loose. 💙

Then YOU can be a guest author for @scienceandfiction.net! 😱

DM me for more info 😁
scienceandfiction.net Science & Fiction @scienceandfiction.net · Jun 26
This is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙 where scientific results & fictional stories intersect.

A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨

🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de

Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...

#scicomm #wisskomm
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
martager.bsky.social
Found out yesterday that the QR code linking to the Wiki page of my OSF project was no longer working after the update 🥲

A bit of an unexpected hiccup during my poster session, but looking forward to the new, hopefully soon bug-free version of OSF!
cos.io Center for Open Science @cos.io · 29d
🪲 OSF Update: Ongoing Fixes
Following the OSF redesign, some issues have been identified:

- Some custom registry templates may not showall fields
- OSF shows a max. of 10 contributors
- Some pages load slowly or seem unresponsive

These are on our critical fix list & should be resolved soon. (1/2)
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
micahgallen.com
TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
michaelgaebler.com
Nice things for the

**13th #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026**

happening under the hood 😊

Save the date: 📆 March 9-11, 2026 (Berlin and virtual)

Stay tuned for the call and announcement!

(For info about the last 12 MBBSymposia: mindbrainbody.de)

#interoception #neuroskyence
Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
October 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
gordonfeld.bsky.social
The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!

Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany

More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.

pug2026.org

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
pug2026.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
martager.bsky.social
Excited to present my poster at #SPR2025 and share our BBSIG pipelines

“Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation”
📣 POS085-2
🗓️ Oct 16, 18:30-20:30
📍Grande Place, 8th floor

@mbe-lab.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
agatapatyczek.bsky.social
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
martager.bsky.social
I’m presenting the latest findings from our CardiAg study this evening at #SPR2025 📣

Happy to chat and find other researchers interested in body-brain interactions & sense of agency!

And stay tuned, pre-print coming out 🔜

@therealspr.bsky.social
mbe-lab.bsky.social Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Oct 16
@martager.bsky.social will present a poster titled “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 🫀🫁🧠🫳🏻

📣 Poster Session 2 - POS085-2
🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 18:30-20:30
📍Grande Place, 8th floor

Come have a chat!
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
mbe-lab.bsky.social
@toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁

📣 Symposium 1.1
🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15
📍Montréal D, 11th floor

See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
mbe-lab.bsky.social
The Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠

Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today

@therealspr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
igor-dgps.bsky.social
What an engaging discussion at our IGOR panel "Have we solved the replication crisis?"🔎

Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Stats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
martager.bsky.social
📣 Save the Date!

At IGOR, we’re hosting a panel discussion on the current state and future of the replication crisis in biological psychology. Join us!

📆 Friday, Oct 10th
🕙 10:00-11:00 (online)
igor-dgps.bsky.social IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Sep 30
🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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September 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
mps-cognition.bsky.social
Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
martager.bsky.social
I attended a workshop with @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social last year and I cannot recommend it enough: if you want to feel more confident in your Git skills, check the openly available materials and - if you have the opportunity - join a workshop 🔥🙌

#OpenScience
lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social Lennart Wittkuhn @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social · Sep 25
Feeling *gitty* about this fall with two exciting workshops on Version Control with Git for Scientists coming up @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @rtg2660.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de! ✨

Sounds interesting? Check out my website, where I share course materials: lennartwittkuhn.com 💫

#OpenScience #Git
Dr. Lennart Wittkuhn | Home
Research Data Scientist
lennartwittkuhn.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
martager.bsky.social
Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start?

🎮 Choose your character

👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin

🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
michaelgaebler.com Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Sep 25
In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Sep 23
'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...
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Marta Gerosa
toninfrc.bsky.social
📢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.
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
martager.bsky.social
What are you waiting for? 🚀

Register to this year's Young Scientist Retreat #ysr2025 in Hamburg, organized by the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social JuWis!
biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · Sep 12
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."
September 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
martager.bsky.social
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 ✨
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM