Such an inspiring day with Prof. Freeston, I am truly grateful for the clever insights and valuable feedback I received today ✨stay tuned for the next updates about my research on #adolescent #interoception 🫀
🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Graphical abstract showing three panels. Left panel, "Multiorgan Interoception Measures," depicts a translucent human body silhouette with anatomically rendered heart (red) and lungs (blue), accompanied by schematic icons for three psychophysical tasks: the Respiratory Resistance Sensitivity Task (RRST), Heart Rate Discrimination Task (HRDT), and an auditory control condition. N = 241 participants. Center panel, "Psychophysical Modelling and Individual Differences," shows a fan of overlapping sigmoid psychometric curves in blue-to-red gradient representing individual variation in perceptual threshold (α) and precision (β), a hierarchical Bayesian model diagram, and icons for metacognitive bias and M-Ratio efficiency. Right panel, "Key Finding: No Cross-Modal Relationship," displays a scatterplot of cardiac versus respiratory sensitivity with a flat regression line (r ≈ 0, BF₀₁ > 6), a compact Bayes Factor heatmap with mostly blue null-supporting cells and one orange cell indicating that subjective confidence is shared across modalities (r = 0.51***). Takeaway: interoceptive ability is modality-specific.
Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in
@commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪
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
Over the course of a dynamic week, you’ll examine time perception through psychology, neuroscience, and state-of-the-art technologies. Gain hands-on experience with real research tools such as EEG, psychophysiological measures , eye-tracking, and non-invasive brain stimulation.
We are happy to announce that we will host the 2nd #TimingResearchForum @timingresforum.bsky.social Summer School "Sensing Time" at @unipd.bsky.social from 6-10 July 2026.
Registration are open until March 15 2026!
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Can't wait to test it!
This is coming along very nicely. Fascinating hemispheric and areal differences in response to high and low frequency heart rate variability. My favorite brain region, at long last!
accidental physiology art
Happy to announce that my proposal on #adolescent #interoception and #digitalhealth has been shortlisted to enter stage 2 of the grant review process! 🫀🧠📱
Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
@mqmentalhealth.bsky.social
📢 New paper!
Just published in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #Cortex 🧠
⏱️This study compares the EEG signatures of explicit and implicit timing, revealing largely overlapping neural dynamics and a key role of expectation and motor preparation
🔓Open access
🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.002
📢 New paper alert!
Just published in @therealspr.bsky.social #Psychophysiology!
Led by Antonio Maffei this research shows that social proximity buffers stress-related startle inhibition 🔊, regulating threat vigilance during public speaking 👥🎤 Enjoy the read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Paper submitted! A very special piece led by @fiorelladpc.bsky.social in which we finally write down what we really think is going on with interoception and emotion. Stay tuned!
🧠🫀 Glad to see my proposal on adolescents’ #interoception recognised with a #SealofExcellence
This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my supervisory team @micahgallen.com Gioia Bottesi @skhalsa.bsky.social Let’s try again next year! 💪 link.europa.eu/tPVTWM
Thrilled to share some news! 🎉📷 Don't miss my #poster tomorrow. I could not be at the conference for unforeseen circumstances but feel free to email me with all your questions! - via #Whova Event Platform
@therealspr.bsky.social
“Added value” 🙄
Luigi (@luigi_micillo ) truly touched my🫀by citing me in his PhD thesis acknowledgments 🥹 From that conference to now, it’s been a wild journey — and this is just the beginning! Wishing him all the best, both as a researcher and the amazing person he is 🫶🏻 Let’s crush the PhD defense now!
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
✨ 🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Antonio Maffei, @fiorelladpc.bsky.social & Salvatore Frisina
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I’m really grateful to my supervisory team @skhalsa.bsky.social @micahgallen.com & Gioia Bottesi for the precious support throughout and for helping me refine my insights for the proposal, let’s keep fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
#MSCAActions
#MSCAPF call closed and number of applications is huuuge this year😱
I’m happy with my proposal and, as Sahib Khalsa said “every grant submission it’s worth celebrating the opportunity to articulate the best version of your science”
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/node/1463
Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors for their brilliant contributions to this work 🙌👩🔬👨🔬
@francafranchini.bsky.social Giulia Buodo & Carmen Belacchi
Take-home message: promoting self-regulation capacity + active lifestyles may help students resist unhealthy temptations and maintain balanced nutrition.
But here’s the twist: higher HRV and regular physical activity were linked to less junk food and more fruit/veg intake 🌿✨
Unhealthy foods triggered stronger pleasantness, arousal, and craving compared to healthy options 🍔🍩 > 🥦🐟
🧠🍎 New study alert!
Among female university students, emotional reactivity and self-regulation (measured via heart rate variability, HRV) play a key role in shaping food choices.
👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
More news on interoception and time perception!
🧵5/5 These findings highlight the distinct roles of cardiac interoception and activity in explicit and implicit timing, emphasizing their nuanced contributions to time perception.
🧵4/n Better interoceptive accuracy sped up responses in the implicit foreperiod task. Higher interoceptive confidence led to worse performance in time bisection. Cardiac vagal tone influenced self-paced tapping in explicit timing tasks.