🧠 Postdoctoral researcher | PhD | Psychologist
🏢 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
🔍 Body-brain interaction, neurodiversity, mental health
Suvi Karjalainen
Our new article is out! 🧠🫀
We investigated heartbeat-locked brain activity using #MEG and found that beta-band suppression was enhanced during interoceptive attention and in individuals with higher interoceptive accuracy.
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This study shows that beta-band suppression time-locked to the heartbeat is a reliable neural marker of interoceptive processing, with a distinct fronto-cingulo-somatosensory signature that different...
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Antonin Fourcade
🎉 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:
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Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨!
We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Heartbeat-evoked responses (HER) are a widely used marker for interoception. However, our systematic review revealed considerable methodological variability and a lack of reporting standards, likely ...
GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Viljami Sairanen
Out now in @natcomms.nature.com, our latest from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social: Visual perception, oscillatory excitability markers, and network connectivity are modulated by the breathing rhythm - depending on how much you know about the stimulus.
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Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?
In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
Our paper is now published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences!
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@carlsbergfondet.dk
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Nature Communications - Breathing shapes perception: Inspiration upregulates arousal and excitability, sharpening sensitivity to visual signals. By aligning respiration with task timing, people...
Heartbeat-evoked responses (HER), as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG), have become widely used as a marker of cardiac interoception in the study of brain-body i...
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Current affective science often relies on static summary ratings that miss the rich temporal dynamics of our emotions. To bridge th...
Heartbeat-evoked responses in M/EEG: A systematic review of methods with suggestions for analysis and reporting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.668923v1
