Research insights from our team at #MindBrainBody 2026 in Berlin 🧠✨

Master’s students from our Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group presented work on VR, neuroscience & affective computing, from GAN perception to EEG-based proxemics.
Great work 👏

#VRResearch #NeuroAI #HCI

Slide outlining the interoception field’s construct validity crisis, research challenges, and a topic-modeling solution.

Graphs show rapid growth of interoception research topics, with cardiac interoception becoming dominant.

Graphs show rising topic diversity but declining coherence in interoception research over time.

One presentation at the 13th #MindBrainBody caught my attention.
Sixun Hou (Cambridge) mapped a century of interoception research using topic modelling.

The field is expanding rapidly, yet conceptual coherence is declining, suggesting fragmentation beneath apparent convergence.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Proud to share that Stefan Weinhardt (not on Bluesky) actually won a poster award at #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody, congrats Stefan!🥳 Keep an eye on his work :)

#neuroskyence

"...interoceptomimetics that stimulate gut–brain communication may counteract age-associated cognitive decline"

In mice but still 😊
@brainandstomach.bsky.social

My word of the day: "interoceptomimetics"

#MindBrainBody

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

Really impressive work led by @martager.bsky.social - everybody use BBSIG! #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #neuroskyence

Lectures slide

To ease the wait until next year, there will also be #MindBrainBody Lectures throughout the year (online)

May 21, 2026: Augustín Ibañez

July 23, 2026: @fraferri.bsky.social

#MBBS2026

Title slide

Darwin quote

Model slide

Final keynote at this year’s #MindBrainBody Symposium by Julian F. Thayer, the human #vagus nerve (everywhere at once [„the wanderer“] and always relaxed/relaxing) on „Breathing is fundamental: a mind/brain/body perspective“.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

@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

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

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

Intro slide

Concept slide

Concept slide 2

Setup slide

Now the long-awaited „special talks“ at the #MindBrainBody Symposium!

First, @antocris.bsky.social on body-brain-behavior rhythms, variability, and time (chronos != kairos).

#MBBS2026

At #MBBS2026, Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social @cmc-lab.bsky.social presents their in-silico findings of #oscillator dynamics in #brainbody #embodied agents, stressing the role of #homeostatic state in #RL! ⭐️

#MBB #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

On 3rd day #MBBS2026, @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social #SysNeuroHamburg #UniBielefeld
showcases evidence for blunted CS+ responding & #threat generalization in #fMRI in #ACE exposed individuals! 💫

lonsdorf-lab.github.io
#MindBrainBody #neuroskyence #fear #conditioning #adversechildhood

Method slide

Opening slide

Final day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium starts with the keynote by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social on early adversity and fear learning.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

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

Summary slide

Interaction effects of placebo and non-placebo

Opioid placebo effects

Placebo effect on migraine

Real-world relevance of #brain-body interactions:

How to harness treatment expectations and endogenous „drugs“?

Clear and powerful keynote by @ulrikebingel.bsky.social at the #MindBrainBody Symposium.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

#MBBS2026 continues with @ulrikebingel.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social on how #expectation modulates treatment outcome & #pain relief, stressing the synergetic potential of pharmacology and expectancy! ✨

#MindBrainBody #placebo #neuroskyence #nociception
treatment-expectation.de

Very excited to present my poster on the transition dynamics of attention later today at #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB And even more excited to see my students presents theirs, addressing different questions raised by this framework (see below) :)

This morning, @egorxen.bsky.social @utu.fi #adenosine modulates sensation mappings and subjective #emotion ratings, providing a first look at their total-body #PET analyses! ⭐️

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #MindBrainBody #interoception

#MBBS2026 #MBB

HEP results slide

Omer Reuveni (Haifa) extending their previous work* on SSVEPs (alpha power and HEPs) distinguishing internal and external attention from the visual to the auditory & from the heartbeat to the breath.

#MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB

* www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Such a pleasure to see the first results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, stemming from a wonderful collaboration between Dept Neurology @mpicbs.bsky.social & #MelanieWilke ‘s lab @uni-goettingen.de ! 💫

#MBBS2026 #MBB #neuroskyence #MindBrainBody #heartbrain #psychophysics #vision #somatosensation

Body Maps

Subjective experience

Whole body PET

As first speaker in session 2 @egorxen.bsky.social from Tartu presented changes in subjective experience, including body maps, after adenosine, with a cool outlook to whole-body (brain-body) PET imaging.

#MindBrainBody #MBBS2026 #MBB

Jellina‘s method slide

HR/V results

HEP results

Link to psychology

Also @jellinap.bsky.social , #MindBrainBody , Young Scientist Awardee 2023, presents her stunning work on #brain-#heart coupling across the menstrual cycle analysing resting heart rate variability and heartbeat-evoked potentials - with links to premenstrual #feelings.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Thank you very much for your kind words @michaelgaebler.com !

It was a great pleasure to be able to give back to the annual #MindBrainBody symposium which gave me one of the most special moments of my PhD career last year 😌🥂

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

Fresh results slide

Results slides

Results slides at MBBS

Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Absolutely beautiful and comprehensive #keynote by #SonjaKotz on #time and #rhythm processing from a #comparative and #translational #MindBrainBody perspective @ MBB Symposium in Berlin! ✨

band-lab.com
@maastrichtu.bsky.social

#MBBS2026

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

Slides of the talk with samples and the task

Slide with the results across the 4 samples

Slide with discussions about the brain gut results

Slide with results about pre and post-stimulus oscillations

So many inspiring talks (here by @saramehrhof.bsky.social, Sameer Alladin, @studenova.bsky.social) and discussions on the first day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026!

#MBB2026