Jin Yan just presented cool preliminary fMRI findings of our new Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task #escan2026. Tomorrow Liwen Meng presents how exposure to virtual nature alters stress responses to this task
Check out Poster 2-111
Link to Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task paper here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“MRI scans of the marathon runners’ brains showed that myelin content was reduced in several white-matter tracts immediately after the race; two months later, myelin levels had recovered to baseline levels.”
Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy?
@yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome!
June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting.
Highlights:
🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska
🔹 Pre-conference events
🔹 General Assembly
🔹 750+ contributions
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#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience
✨ ESCAN 2026 in Rome welcomed an amazing 950 participants!
And, of course, one global group photo for research, in front of the ESCAN 2026 venue at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics.
#ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience
Mara Mather
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Christoph Strauch
www.biorxiv.org
Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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"Structure and metabolism should no longer sit in separate boxes. The brain’s wiring could also be part of its fuel strategy. Myelin may be more than insulation; it may also form part of the brain’s adaptive metabolic infrastructure."
🧠👇 #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/metabolism/b...
Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Myelin may serve as an energy reserve for the brain, and neuroscientists are rethinking how the brain stores, shares and protects energy.
