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Mind-Body-Emotion Group
@mbe-lab.bsky.social
Exploring brain-body 🧠👤 & brain-heart 💭❤️ interactions with psychophysiological, neuroimaging & immersive VR studies @mpicbs.bsky.social (Leipzig/Berlin)

Head: @michaelgaebler.com
Details: http://www.mind-body-emotion.de/
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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!
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Preparing for launch 🚀

👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.
EDIA
edia-toolbox.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🔗 You can check out the preregistration and poster PDF here: osf.io/5ynzv/wiki?w...

Stay tuned, pre-print out 🔜
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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
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Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).

www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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
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With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
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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
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
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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
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...
'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
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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...
'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 7:43 AM
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September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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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
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 10:20 AM
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AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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📢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
🚀 Exciting news from our group!
Our latest article on AffectTracker is now out 🎉

An open-source tool for capturing continuous, real-time emotional experience during immersive VR 👓 with intuitive feedback options and useful for bridging subjective reports with physiological measures.

Links below 👇
📢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 10:32 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
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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
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The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: evidence from a large-scale consortium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670843v1
August 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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EEG-decodability of facial expressions and their stereoscopic depth cues in immersive virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670974v1
August 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!
Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

www.wuertual.org
XR-Meeting Würzburg
October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25
www.wuertual.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🧠 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
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
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Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

www.wuertual.org
XR-Meeting Würzburg
October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25
www.wuertual.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM