@martager
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 🧠🫀🫁
Today is the day. Looking forward to my Special Talk at the #MindBrainBody Symposium introducing the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)… for now, I’m having breakfast with my BBSIG-themed mug ☕️
🗓️ March 11, 13:00-14:00
#MBBS2026
Great initiative!
Two past Young Scientist Award winners are presenting today at #MindBrainBody Symposium: @ege-kingir.bsky.social on cardiac dynamics in visual and somatosensory perception & @jellinap.bsky.social on neural-cardiac processing across the menstrual cycle 🫀🧠
Consider appplying in next years!
#MBBS2026
Our latest work on respiratory and non-respiratory contributions to the Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is out! 🫁🫀
As suspected, respiration accounts significantly to the ACD via respiratory HRV, but it seems that it does not fully explain it! [1/2]
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A nice collaboration between the @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com and the ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social Lucas Naranjo 🇩🇪🤝🇪🇸
Did you miss Mascha’s poster on how vascular signals contribute to active visual perception, using pulse transit time from ECG+PPG? Don’t worry, we have you covered! 👀🫀🧠
👉 Here is the poster PDF: www.cbs.mpg.de/2435868/b12_...
#MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody
Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.
Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
Couldn’t agree more! 👏
Listening to @marieloescher.bsky.social gave me some new insights to how important it is to include different interoceptive coupling profiles (from heart, brain and stomach) in future studies. Really nice work
@studenova.bsky.social surprised the audience of the #MindBrainBody Symposium with an “embodied presentation” in how absolute post-stimulus alpha amplitude better explains trial-by-trial perception across 5 datasets and 3 somatosensory tasks
#MBBS2026
First keynote of the #MindBrainBody Symposium with Karl Friston on the physics of affordance
#MBBS2026
Of interest for those attending the #MindBrainBody Symposium: you can check out the Brain-Body Interactions starter pack to follow many great researchers in the field!
#MBBS2026
The ACE²Lab is presenting in the #MindBrainBody Symposium:
Victor (poster C24 - 3.20pm) on Visual search & cardiorespiratory coupling
Lucas (D35 - 4.20pm) on breathing coupled to daily life experiences
Plus, ongoing collab. with @michaelgaebler.com in B12 (today 7.45pm) with Mascha
#MBBS2026 🫁🫀
M. Dagen
📍B12
📆 Mar 9, 19:45
Perceptual accuracy varies across cardiac & respiratory phases - but is this adaptive? Using pulse transit time (ECG -> PPG) as a non-invasive proxy for beat-to-beat blood pressure changes, we probe vascular contributions to active visual perception 🫀🖐️👀
Excited to present a special talk about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines on Wednesday, March 11, at 13:00!
Stay tuned for more announcements 📣
*goes back to preparing the final two slides of the talk 🤭*
#MBBS26 #MindBrainBody Symposium
Hello sunny Berlin 👋☀️
The #MindBrainBody Symposium kicks off today and we’re excited to dive into three days of engaging discussion and new ideas!
Our MBE group is bringing several posters & talks this year: come find us and chat about our research! 💬
See below to know where to spot us 📌
#MBBS26
The morning at #iScienceTBD continued with an interactive workshop about career vs. conscience, with a board game presenting a lot of dilemmas regarding open science and research integrity ♟️🎲 would you have earned karma or career points?
#iDIV
It was eye-opening to know more about how the Open Science movement narrates itself, usually with very black & white dichotomies and a ‘positivist’ undertone. A good reminder to engage in critical thinking and epistemic humility
Read more: blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...
Today I’m at the “Science: To Be Determined” workshop at #iDIV. What a great way to spend #LoveReplicationsWeek!
Starting the morning with a keynote by Dr. Bartscherer on how to determine “better” science from a sociological perspective 🔬
#iScienceTBD
Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!
Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...
🚀 BIDS Consultation Hours are back next week!
Need support converting your data to BIDS?
Bring your questions and get hands-on guidance from experienced BIDS users to make your data shareable and reproducible 🧠♻️
📅 Friday, Nov 28 | 12:00 PM CET
🔗 Info & materials: tinyurl.com/igor-bids
Congrats to @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social and colleagues on having this great study finally out!
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
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!
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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...
🚀 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
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 😁
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!
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...
Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
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