Very happy to announce our SoNeAt Lab's 2026 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop.
📍 @universityofessex.bsky.social in #Colchester (UK); September 01-02, 2026.
🎓 Mainly for beginners & new users of fNIRS hyperscanning.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 April 2026
👉🏻 pvrticka.com/2026-soneat-...
Please share. Thank you 🙏🏻
I am very much looking forward to my @oxpip.bsky.social online lecture on #Attachment and #Child #Development: From #Myths to Modern #Neuroscience.
📅 03 October 2025, 13:00-15:00
🎟️ Tickets are still available: tickets.sheepcrm.com/.../67ee7a6a...
It would be a great pleasure to see you there.
New study from the @soneatlab.bsky.social:
Securely stressed: association between #attachment and empathic #stress in romantic couples
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Secure attachment can be both a ✅ resilience and a potential ⚠️ risk factor within romantic relationships under stress.
The #SoNeAt Lab (Dept. of #Psychology, @universityofessex.bsky.social) had a great time at #FLUX2025 / @fluxsociety.bsky.social in #Dublin!
Our #PhDs Laura & Ricky very successfully presented their posters and our PI @pvrticka.bsky.social his symposium talk on #fNIRS #hyperscanning.
Thank you 🙏🏻!
Now happening at #FLUX2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social 👇🏻
Interested in #fNIRS #hyperscanning in #parent #child dyads & #families?
Check out our posters & talk by my @soneatlab.bsky.social !
And do let me know if you want to meet for a chat 😊.
Come and find our SoNeAt Lab (@universityofessex.bsky.social) at this year's #FLUX2025 in #Dublin!
We are participating in 4 events, including a pre-conference workshop on #hyperscanning with @artinis.bsky.social, 2 #poster sessions by Ricky and Laura, and a symposium talk by @pvrticka.bsky.social👇🏻
🚨 Join us at the 5th #SocialNeuroscience of #Human #Relationships, #Attachment and #Caregiving #Conference - #SNRAC2025 - this summer! 🚨
Where: @unibremen.bsky.social
When: August 20-21, 2025
More information: www.uni-bremen.de/en/klips-kjp...
#Abstract submission & #registration by 04.07.2025
Last chance to apply for a fully-funded 2-year #PostDoc in my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social using #fNIRS #hyperscanning & behavioural assessment in #children.
👉🏻 SWITCH: pvrticka.com/switch-proje...
Deadline: 01.06.25
Start: 01.10.25
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Workshop organiser & winners
(Slightly belated) congratulations to our 2025 #SoNeAtLab (@soneatlab.bsky.social) #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop best #presentation #prize #winners 🤩 🎉 🏆!
Poster: Vanessa Nöring @uni-jena.de
Talk: Ann Hogenhuis @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@artinis.bsky.social
@universityofessex.bsky.social
One week left to apply for the fully-funded 2-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in my @soneatlab.bsky.social, Dept. of #Psychology, @universityofessex.bsky.social (#Colchester, #UK).
Deadline: 01.06.2025
Start: 01.10.2025
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#fNIRS #attachment
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Second day of our 2025 #SoNeAtLab #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop 🧠🧠 @universityofessex.bsky.social. In the IT Lab 🖥 now, looking at actual data 📊 and how to analyse it.
@artinis.bsky.social #Neuroskyence #brain #synchrony
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Our 2025 #SoNeat #fNIRS #Hyperscanning workshop @universityofessex.bsky.social is in full swing.
@artinis.bsky.social
@pvrticka.bsky.social
#Neuroskyence
We are soooo excited 🤩🥳 for our 2025 #SoNeAtLab #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop that starts tomorrow @universityofessex.bsky.social.
We have attendees joining us from the UK, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Iran and the USA.
👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Welcome 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
My @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fully funded for 2 years starting 01 October 2025. Application deadline is 01 June 2025.
👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p...
#fNIRS #hyperscanning #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci
It has been a great pleasure and honour to attend the #ParentalBrain Meeting 2025 in #Barcelona to talk about my @soneatlab.bsky.social's research on #CaringDads: The #Social #Neuroscience of #Attachment and #Caregiving in #Fathers (pvrticka.com/dads/). Thank you again for the kind invitation 🙏🏻☺️.
Our SoNeAt Lab (@universityofessex.bsky.social; PI @pvrticka.bsky.social) is hiring a #PostDoc for our #SWITCH project (pvrticka.com/switch-proje...). It's a fully funded 2-year position from 01.10.2025 using #fNIRS #hyperscanning.
Application deadline: 01.06.2025
👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p...
2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
Adding some tags...
#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #attachment #psychology #fNIRS #synchrony #neuroimaging
Please share widely 🙏🏻
2025 SoNeAt Lab fNIRS hyperscanning workshop flyer
We are thrilled to announce that our lab @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline is 28 February.
More info: pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...
Poster presentations
Our lab had a great time at today's Dept of #Psychology (Uni of #Essex) #PGR #Conference, where our 3 #PhD students Laura, Ricky and Anil presented their #TRIO study posters.
Very well done everybody! And congrats to Anil for winning the best poster prize 🥳🎉🙌🏻!
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy #fNIRS
I’m thrilled to be featured in the newest issue of The Rubin Museum's #SpiralMagazine - now available for free!
My contribution "The #bonds that define us" looks at #attachment theory through the lens of #social neuroscience.
rubinmuseum.org/spiral/the-b...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
#Attachment #MythBusting #07
#PolyvagalTheory (PVT) is very prominent in the context of #attachment and #trauma. However, it is not supported by current #physiology literature. This has important implications.
pvrticka.com/attachment-m...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
#Attachment #MythBusting #04
The #neurobiology of attachment is often explained based on the Triune Brain Model. But this model is a myth and its use misleading.
The human #brain is adaptive, not triune – and this adaptiveness is key for attachment!
pvrticka.com/attachment-m...
Huge congratulations to the UK Charity #Babygro (babygro.org) for being awarded £10,000 from the #Cornwall Community Foundation 🥳🎉!
The funding will enable Babygro to provide more courses and sessions for #parents and #children, partially based on our #NAMA inspired by #attachmenttheory.
Summer School on Attachment and Human Development at VU Amsterdam with a great lineup of scholars contributing insights and knowledge for the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Please repost and share within your institutions.
Our study thus elucidates the common and distinct means by which mothers and fathers engage with their children, especially during play, lending support for theories postulating partial differentiation of paternal and maternal neural 🧠 parenting systems.
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Overall, exclusion yielded comparable neural activation 🧠 in mothers and fathers associated with mentalising 🤔, saliency ⚠️, and emotion-processing 😊.
However, there were also several interesting parental gender differences during inclusion & exclusion.
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We used a novel event-related fMRI adaptation of the "Cyberball" virtual ball-tossing paradigm ⚾🫴 in 48 fathers and 40 mothers of pre-school children to look at parental brain responses 🧠 during parent-child play with inclusion, exclusion and re-inclusion phases.
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
Caregiver and Playmate? Mothers’ and fathers’ brain responses to ball-play with their child
Led by brilliant Dorukhan Acil, with Lara Puhlmann, Lars White & @pvrticka.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci
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