Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨!
We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Adriatica2026 Summer School on Brain-Body Interactions & Wellbeing is back.
Five days of cutting-edge research on the brain-body relationship, hosted in Pescara (Adriatic coast).
More details coming soon. 🧠🌊
📅 August 31 – September 4, 2026 📍 Pescara, Italy
#Adriatica2026 #Neuroscience #Wellbeing
New paper from our IGOR Sustainability project in Nature Human Behaviour: “Sustainable neuroscience through open science” ♻️🧠
As there is no research on a dead planet, neuroscience must weigh its environmental footprint alongside its societal impact.
A thread 👇
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Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org
Today at @mbe-lab.bsky.social we celebrate the end of data collection for our Berlin side of the INTACT project, a collaboration with ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social & Lucas
48 participants, ca. 72hr of ECG/PPG/RESP recording later🫀🫁 thanks to the amazing help of Mascha & Aileen!
Data analysis 🔜
🚀 New preprint out! With @toninfrc.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com & Ł. Okruszek: "Lost in Emotional Space". We introduce emotional bandwidth, a new way to measure how people navigate their emotional landscape in daily life, and link it to depression and loneliness using experience sampling 🧵 1/5
Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows?
BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠
👉 www.bbsig.de
We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions
#neuroskyence
And of course thanks to the entirety of @mbe-lab.bsky.social for being an awesome research group! 🫀
Thanks to @michaelgaebler.com for the continued support, and to all contributors (past & present)!
Here on 🟦☁️: @aleksanpi.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social @niketag.bsky.social @samversc.bsky.social @abhaykoushik.bsky.social @lucyroe.bsky.social
Slide about our BBSIG shared mission: “changing the system… one pipeline at the time”
Reducing research waste, lowering entry barriers to peripheral physiology analysis and fostering collaboration and creativity are just a few of the shared values that motivate us in this team effort 🫂
(Inspired by work from @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social)
Introductory slide “Jointly advancing the reproducibility of peripheral physiology analysis: the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)” presented at the 13th MindBrainBody Symposium
Final slide with team picture
Overwhelmed by the collegial support and positive feedback received for our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) 🥹 thanks to our amazing team making this possible!
Want to try out our pipelines for ECG, PPG (and soon respiration)?
🔗 www.bbsig.de
#MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence
Thank you for the kind words @linaskora.bsky.social!
@martager.bsky.social widening the focus to science as a whole.
BBSIG as 21st-century science 😊
„Changing the culture… one pipeline at the time“
#MindBrainBody #MBBS2026
Example workflow
…schematic of an example workflow
Now, @martager.bsky.social presents our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) to facilitate and harmonise the processing and analysis of cardiac and respiratory data.
Try it yourself!
🔗www.bbsig.de
#MindBrainBody #MBBS2026
In her special talk #MBBS2026, @martager.bsky.social @mbe-lab.bsky.social presents #BBSIG, that is #openaccess #preprocessing #functionality for #ecg #ppv #resp ! ⭐️ Wonderful collaborative efforts! 🙃
github/martager/bbsig
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#BSMB @mpicbs.bsky.social
#MindBrainBody #Python
Meanwhile in the #MBBS2026:
Victor presenting his poster in Cardiorespiratory coupling with eye movements
And Lucas with daily life experiences (as subjectively reported with text and classified by LLM)
We had a great time learning & catching up, such a fantastic meeting! 🤜🤛
Thanks @mariame.bsky.social ! Hopefully the talk will be recorded if you’re interested, but we will also share some more resources here 😊 and always feel free to reach out if you want to know more or contribute
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
