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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/
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
@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 12:43 PM
@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
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
That’s a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025!

@martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes 🫀🫁🧠

See you next year in Heidelberg!
June 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies 👤🧠👓
June 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just wrapped up a fascinating talk by @aleksanpi.bsky.social on the embodied toll of social disconnection, showing how loneliness is accompanied by disrupted parasympathetic responses. Bravo 👏

📍Symposium “How interoception shapes health and disease via social stress and loneliness”

#PuG2025
June 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How do heartbeat and breathing shape our sense of control over our movements? 🫀🫁 @martager.bsky.social will explore how internal bodily rhythms guide voluntary action initiation and shape the resulting sense of agency.

📆 Sat, June 21 | 09:00-10:30
📍 1.010 Z6
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What makes a virtual face feel real - or eerily not? 👤🧠 @michaelgaebler.com will outline new results from EEG & behavioral studies that explore face perception and realism in 2D vs. 3D immersive VR, part of the NEUROHUM & 3DIL projects.

📆 Fri, June 20 | 14:30-16:00
📍 1.010 Z6
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Can VR boost eyewitness accuracy? 👁️🕵️‍♂️
@alexandroskas.bsky.social will present the 3D Interactive Lineup (3DIL) — a new approach using VR to improve identification accuracy vs. traditional monoscopic 2D & 2.5D lineups.

Poster B221
📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍 2.XXX Z6
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️@flxklotz.bsky.social will present EDIA, an open-source tool for building and conducting VR experiments in Unity, featuring a real-world example evaluating eye tracking performance across 5 VR headsets.

Poster B208
📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍 2.XXX Z6
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
How does loneliness shape our body’s responses? 💭🫀 @aleksanpi.bsky.social will dive into the link between loneliness and parasympathetic regulation, and outline future research directions into loneliness, interpersonal distance and physiological responses.

📆 Thu, June 19 | 16:30-18:00
📍 0.001 Z6
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We are excited to be headed to Würzburg for "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2025! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣

Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
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
The Neurology retreat of @mpicbs.bsky.social continues: it’s our turn to present the fascinating research work from the @cogneuroend.bsky.social group on how hormonal dynamics interact with neural dynamics, cognitive processes and mental health 👩‍🔬🧠🥚
June 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Thanks to the @cogneuroend.bsky.social for the constructive feedback and for highlighting our strengths, including our open-access tools and software!

All of which can be found at: www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/neurology/mind-body-emotion/tools-software
June 2, 2025 at 8:54 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 🔬🧠
June 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Title: "Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation"
@martager.bsky.social

📍 B23
📆 Monday, March 10th, 19:30-20:15

Does syncing with our heartbeat influence our sense of control over actions and their outcomes?
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Title: "Differentiation of Neuropsychological Post-COVID Symptoms using Heart Rate Variability"
Mia Neubauer

📍 A25
📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30

Can HRV offer a window into post-COVID cognitive impairment and fatigue?
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Title: "AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality"
@toninfrc.bsky.social

📍 A04
📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30

Discover AffectTracker – a versatile tool for continuous real-time tracking of affective states in iVR!
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
...the meeting is in full swing - with SPR's president, Julian Thayer, at the bass.
October 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Let's meet @therealspr.bsky.social @ Prague 🤝!

📆 Thu 2 pm, @toninfrc.bsky.social talks about "dynamics & physiology of affective experience in immersive VR" (Congress Hall)

📆 Fri 9:50 am, @mgblr.bsky.social co-chairs & talks at the symposium "brain-body coupling & affective states" (Panorama Hall)
October 23, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Kicking off the second day of the Brain-Body-Waves symposium with a great talk by @martager.bsky.social about the sense of agency and cardiorespiratory phase!
#WAVES24
September 28, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Amazing start to the Body-Brain Waves Symposium in Salerno featuring our MBE group:
@el-rei.bsky.social with a research question about vagus nerve and brain complexity drops
@lucyroe.bsky.social with her MSc thesis on decoding dynamic affective states from neural and cardiac data

#WAVES24
September 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM