I have this backburner interest in #psychophysiology - the mind-body interface.

How wide your pupils are relates to a whole bunch of stuff, including cognitive load. Could be a method for measuring distractions in UI and minimizing them.

Anyone know of some free apps for measuring that? 👀

#OpenScience #OpenTeaching community,
yesterday, for the beginning of the exam season, I gave a lecture on stress management. To demo Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, I built a little tool to show real-time ECG + heart rate from a Polar H10 in the lecture hall.

Students could see how breathing affects heart rate. The "aha!" moments were amazing : )

It now records and is available as FOSS:
https://github.com/RGreinacher/polar-h10-ecg-viewer

#Psychophysiology #HRV #FOSS #Python #HeartRateVariability

Researchers shed light on how breathwork can induce altered states of consciousness

https://www.psypost.org/researchers-shed-light-on-how-breathwork-can-induce-altered-states-of-consciousness/

#health #mentalhealth #psychology #neuroscience #cognitivescience #brainscience #consciousness #psychophysiology #breathing #breathwork #breathe

🧠 We’re attending 𝗣𝘂𝗚 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 in Würzburg!

Come find Mentalab at the annual meeting for psychophysiology and learn how Explore Pro supports mobile EEG, ECG, EMG, and more.
📍 Universität Würzburg, Z6

🌐 www.pug2025.org
See you there!
#Mentalab #PuG2025 #Neurotech #Psychophysiology #EEG

The Emotional Symphony: Unraveling the Neural Tapestry of Feelings

#Emotions #Neuroscience #LimbicSystem #Psychology #MindBodyConnection #EmotionalIntelligence #SelfDiscovery #SomaticExperience #MentalHealth #EmotionalAwareness #CognitiveScience #PersonalityTraits #HumanExperience #EmotionalWellbeing #Neurobiology #Psychophysiology #EmotionalHealth #EmotionalTapestry

https://youtube.com/shorts/aklNsiwyTIs?feature=share

Do you care about pupillometry? We need to rewrite its history in neurosciences and psychology. Now @TrendsNeuro

A rediscovery of the forgotten early wave of pupillometry research – effort, covert attention, imagery all made visible by 1900 in a fascinating literature. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jKdtbotq3zQC

#neuroscience #psychophysiology #pupillometry #psychology

🚨🔍 "The Polygraph and Lie Detection" by @NationalAcademies explores alternative techniques & technologies for detecting deception 🤔💡 From brain activity to facial expressions, these methods aim to improve accuracy 📊 Read more:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10420/chapter/8

#Polygraph #LieDetection #DeceptionDetection #Psychophysiology #ForensicScience #Technology

Interested in learning more about some basic elements of PsychoPhys?

Join us for a workshop July 31st - August 2nd in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan.

Learn more at the following link:
https://web.cvent.com/event/6a962cf4-05e7-45fb-8f6f-eafe8c67ce53/websitePage:17e8f24b-550c-4a09-a091-06ccd6f667d5

#psychophysiology #summerworkshops #ICPSR #annarbor #Umich #umichigan #InstituteForSocialResearch

" A #clever way to #detect #narcissism "

"A team of #psychologists at the #University of #helsinki working with a colleague from Millsaps College, has #discovered via experimentation, a #clever new way to detect #narcissism in a person. In their #study reported in the #journal #psychophysiology the group measured physical responses to certain stimuli in people identified as having a #narcissistic personality …"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-clever-narcissism.html

not openaccess :(

Not a new observation, but wow do fields have different norms for releasing data and code with publications.

I read a #psychophysiology article today, published 2022 in a "good" journal. I've analyzed such data before and am a bit again, but spent the last years in #fMRI methods, where #openScience is expected.

The article had no accompanying data, subject-level results, nor code, only summary stats. It was an interesting read but unsettling, like only half a paper; missing critical substance.