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Better inference from fewer trials: hierarchical Bayesian modelling of interoception

posted on September 16, 2026

Our paper on hierarchical Bayesian modelling of interoceptive psychophysics is now published in Behavior Research Methods, with open access1.1 It introduces models and analysis tools for the Heart Rate Discrimination...

What does a heartbeat do to the brain?

posted on September 9, 2026

What we lose when we divide the cardiac cycle into systole and diastole Comparing perception at systole, when the heart contracts, and diastole, when it relaxes between contractions, has become...

Announcing cardioception 0.7.0 and systole 0.3.2

posted on August 27, 2026

Today we are releasing new versions of both of our open-source cardiac interoception toolboxes. cardioception 0.7.0 provides the Heart Rate Discrimination task and the Heartbeat Counting task in PsychoPy. systole...

The vagus has a map. Interoception still needs a model.

posted on July 29, 2026

This week I was excited to see the announcement of the first population-level atlas of the human vagus nerve turn up in my feed. The Feinstein Institutes have released a...

New in PNAS: Uncovering the Embodied Dimension of the Wandering Mind

posted on April 7, 2026

We’re excited to share that our latest paper, “Uncovering the embodied dimension of the wandering mind”, is now published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Led by...

Announcing respyra: An Open-Source Toolbox for Respiratory Tracking in Interoception Research

posted on February 27, 2026

We’re happy to announce the first public release of respyra, a Python toolbox for respiratory motor tracking experiments. The package is available now on PyPI and the accompanying preprint is...

Welcome to the Embodied Computation Group

posted on January 5, 2026

Welcome to the new website of the Embodied Computation Group! We are a multidisciplinary research lab located at Aarhus University and Cambridge Psychiatry, led by Dr Micah Allen. Our research...