12th MBB Symposium 2025

Awards and Prizes

MBB Young Scientist Award 2025
(3-months funded research stay)
Ege Kingir (University Medical Center Göttingen)
Proposal Title: "Neurophysiological Correlates of the ‘Gut Feeling’"

MBB Poster Prize 2025
1st Place
Aureen D’Souza (German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal)
Poster A03 Title:  "Affective responses are shaped by interoception and personality"

2nd Place
Paula Guiomar Alarcón de Antón (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Poster D08 Title: "Quantification of metacognition of emotion: an EEG and pupillometry study"
 
3rd Place
Avraham Shmueli (University of Haifa)
Poster V05: "Interoceptive  - a resilience factor in subclinical traumatic symptoms"

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Abstract Booklet MBB Symposium 2025 

In the Abstract Booklet you will find all the abstracts of keynote lectures, sponsor workshops, oral presentations, and posters. You will also find the participant list. 

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Recorded Talks

10.03.2025

Opening Keynote 
Tor Wager (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire)
"A neuroscientific perspective on the self-regulation of pain and emotion"

Panel 1: Presentations by 5 Participants
Yuliya Kovalchuk (Charité − Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Max Planck School of Cognition)    
"Establishing Experience-Dependent Structural Variation of the Individually Mapped Somatosensory Genital Representation Field in Adult Women with Childhood Sexual Abuse Exposure"

Ignacio Rebollo (German Institute of Human Nutrition [DIfE], Potsdam-Rehbrücke)
"From Rest to Digest: How signals from the stomach interact with brain activity"

Kristin Kaduk (German Primate Center [DPZ], Göttingen)
"Neural activity in the dorsal pulvinar reflects cardiac modulation and influences cardiac and respiratory activity"

Daniel Kluger (University of Münster)
"A dynamic link between respiration and arousal"

Tommaso Tosato (University of Montreal)    
"Performance modulations phase-locked to action depend on internal state"

11.03.2025

Keynote Lecture 1
Nadine Gogolla (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich) 
“Interoceptive cardiac signals guide emotion state coding in the mouse posterior insular cortex”

Panel 2: Presentations by 5 Participants
Jost Blasberg (Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, University Clinic Jena)
"Investigating facial mimicry in adolescents observing their parents under acute psychosocial stress"

Aureen D'Souza (German Institute of Human Nutrition [DIfE], Nuthetal)
"Affective responses are shaped by interoception and personality"

Jelena Brasanac (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)    
"End-tidal CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports the emergence of altered states of consciousness"

Mateo Leganes-Fonteneau (University of Amsterdam; UCLouvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve)
"Mapping Acute Alcohol Effects on Bodily Sensations: A Cross-Dimensional Interoceptive Approach"

Fiammetta Zanetti (University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette)
"Investigating the effects of a cardio-visual full-body illusion on embodiment and body image"

Sponsor Workshops
Christoph Aurnhammer & Niclas Brand (Mentalab GmbH) 
"Mentalab Mobile ExG Workshop"

Fabio Barollo (ANT Neuro)
"From mobile EEG to multimodal Brain-Body interactions assessment"

Cecile Issard & Zoe Scott (NIRx)   
"fNIRS story fNIRS in motion: advancing neuroimaging for dynamic brain-body interactions"

Keynote Lecture 2
Markus Ullsperger (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg)
"Neuro- and psychophysiology of performance monitoring"

Keynote Lecture 3
Maria J. Ribeiro (University of Coimbra)
"The psychophysiology of temporal attention"

12.03.2025

Keynote Lecture 4
Veronica Witte (Leipzig University Clinic; MPI CBS Leipzig)
"Exploring the impact of the gut-brain axis on cognitive aging and decision-making"

Panel 3: Presentations by 6 Participants
Carlotta Isabella Zona (University of Potsdam)    
"Label-induced categorization bias in 2D manual pointing"

Michal Weiss (University of Haifa)    
"Developing a Machine-Learning-Based Diagnostic Tool for Fibromyalgia Using Multi Modal Approach"
Carlos Ventura-Bort (University of Potsdam)
"The Correspondence between Arousal and the Late Positive Potential using Representational Similarity Analysis"

Irene Senatore (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)
"Mapping Epistemic Priors of Hyperscanning Psychotherapy: The Asymmetry and Reciprocity Blindspots"

Yvonne Serhan (University of Haifa)
"The individuality of connectivity gradients arises from the complexity and dispersion of the embedded networks"

George Fejer (University of Konstanz) 
"Altered States of Viscereality: Augmenting Breathwork with Bio-Responsive Virtual Reality to Induce Altered States of Consciousness and Spontaneous Shifts in Breathing"

Special Talks
Micah Allen (Aarhus University)
"Noradrenergic Beta-Blockade Reveals Distinct Mechanisms of Cardiac and Respiratory Interoception"

Lioba Enk (MPI CBS Leipzig; Max Planck School of Cognition)
"Tracking citation diversity and representativeness – how and why?"

Keynote Lecture 5
Ivan de Araujo (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen) 
"Brain-Body Regulation of Musosal Immunity"   

Closing Remarks & Awards Distribution  (From 1:00:20 min)

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Poster PDF files