April 16, 2025: After 1.5 years of joint work in the “Brain-Body Analyis Special Interest Group” (BBSIG; steered by Marta Gerosa), we’re very happy to release the first set of open-access, Python-based pipelines for the streamlined analysis of peripheral physiological (currently: cardiac) data: here are the Github repository and the documentation (bbsig.de).
January 29, 2025: We centralized our open-science contributions (open stimuli, data, scripts, etc.) in a new section “Tools & Software”.
December 16, 2024: We (spearheaded by Antonin Fourcade) have released the AffectTracker, a tool to collect continuous, two-dimensional (valence and arousal) ratings of affective experience during dynamic stimulation (e.g., video): Bsky post, preprint, github repo.
November 25, 2024: The 12th MindBrainBody Symposium (March 10-12, 2025) has been officially announced. We’re very much looking forward to it!
November 1, 2024: Welcome Can Bolat, Aileen Brama, and Héctor Leos who are joining us as student assistants.
September 27, 2024: Antonin Fourcade was invited as to give a plenary talk as a "Face of the Future" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) in Prague next month. Micha Gaebler is also looking forward to chair a symposium with Tahnée Engelen (other speakers: Heini Saarimäki and Vincenzo Catrambone) on “affective states and brain-body coupling”.
September 18, 2024: Lucy Roellecke completed her Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience at Freie Universität (thesis title: “Embodied Emotion: Decoding dynamic affective states by integrating neural and cardiac data”) with flying colors! Congratulations!
August 27, 2024: Come work with us! We’re looking for a student assistantin Berlin (10h/week, 1-2 years contract, deadline: Sept 15, 2024). Full job ad here.
May 15, 2024: MBE Group “associate” Joseph Jenowein (age 10) created the beautiful MBE promo video “Organs/Organy”. The “stop-motion masterpiece” can be found here on the new MBE youtube account.
January 9, 2024: We welcome Aleksandra Piejka, who won an MBBS Young Scientist Award last year and will spend the next 3 months with us in Berlin.
September 25, 2023: Congratulations to Agata Patyczek and Elias Reinwarth who successfully (with distinction!) defended their Master theses on fMRI gradients and acute (Agata) or chronic (Elias) stress. They’ll join us as PhD candidates next month.
September 1, 2023: Welcome to new group member Alex Kastrinogiannis, who’ll work in the 3DIL project.
July 19, 2023: We’re looking forward to starting a new BMBF project in September: “Objective and hybrid assessment of cognitive and fatigue-associated post-COVID symptoms with multimodal tools (EPSILON).” Together with Fraunhofer HHI (Berlin), the Clinic for Cognitive Neurology (Leipzig), and Charité (Berlin), we’ll combine immersive VR (cognitive measures) and wearables (vegetative measures) to characterize post-COVID symptoms.
April 3, 2023: We’re currently looking to fill a DFG-funded 3-year postdoc position (deadline: May 15, 2023). Details can be found here.
February 1, 2023: We started a new project on technology-supported motor rehabilitation in Rett Syndrome (TeMoRett), a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. TeMoRett is funded by the BMBF and a collaboration with clinical (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and technical partners (Fraunhofer HHI). Among other things, we will contribute video-based assessments of a user’s cardiac activity and affective state.
November 23, 2022: In 2023, we will start a DFG-funded collaboration (3DIL) with the UK and Canada on using immersive VR for eyewitness identification in lineups (more details). We’ll officially announce a 3-year postdoc position (key features: eye tracking, interactive mobile immersive VR, face processing) in early 2023. Please feel free to already get in touch.
December 16, 2021: Janis Reinelt successfully defended his MD thesis on "Mind-brain-body interactions after acute psychosocial stress" at Leipzig University. Congratulations, Dr. Reinelt!
June 16, 2021: Stella Kunzendorf successfully defended her MD thesis on "The modulation of active information sampling across the cardiac cycle" at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Kunzendorf!
March 18, 2021: Deniz Kumral successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Variability in heart and brain activity across the adult lifespan" at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Kumral!