Publications

Grund, M., Al, E., Pabst, M., Dabbagh, A., Stephani, T., Nierhaus, T., Gaebler, M., and Villringer, A. (2021). Respiration, Heartbeat, and Conscious Tactile Perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42(4), 643-656. 10.1523/jneurosci.0592-21.2021
Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2021). Heartbeat and somatosensory perception. NeuroImage, 238, 118247. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118247
Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Forschack, N., Nierhaus, T., Grund, M., Motyka, P., Gaebler, M., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2020). Heart–brain interactions shape somatosensory perception and evoked potentials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(19), 10575-10584. 10.1073/pnas.1915629117
Motyka, P., Grund, M., Forschack, N., Al, E., Villringer, A., and Gaebler, M. (2019). Interactions between cardiac activity and conscious somatosensory perception. Psychophysiology, 56(10). 10.1111/psyp.13424
Kumral, D., Şansal, F., Cesnaite, E., Mahjoory, K., Al, E., Gaebler, M., Nikulin, V., and Villringer, A. (2019). BOLD and EEG signal variability at rest differently relate to aging in the human brain. NeuroImage, 207, 116373. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116373

Pre-prints

Al, E., Stephani, T., Engelhardt, M., Villringer, A., and Nikulin, V. (2021). Cardiac Activity Impacts Cortical Motor Excitability. Research Square. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1023617/v1
Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2020). Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2020.12.29.424693
Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Forschack, N., Nierhaus, T., Grund, M., Motyka, P., Gaebler, M., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2019). Heart-Brain Interactions Shape Somatosensory Perception and Evoked Potentials. bioRxiv. 10.1101/750315

Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception, Karolinska Institute, (2022). Online
How To Analyze Heart-Brain Interactions and Their Link to Behavior, Workshop at MindBrainBody Symposium, (2021). Online
Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception, Internal Colloquium of Max Planck Institute, (2021). Online
How Does the Heartbeat Affect Somatosensory Perception?, Brain Rhythms Meeting, Columbia University, (2020). Online
Somatosensory Localization in the Absence of Conscious Detection, Neuromatch Conference, (2020). Online
Heart–Brain Interactions Shape Somatosensory Perception and Evoked Potentials. Interoception Meeting, University College of London, (2020). Online
How Does the Heartbeat Affect Somatosensory Perception? Neuroxillations Journal Club, University of Oxford, (2020). Online
Somatosensory Perception Varies Across the Cardiac Cycle. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (2018). Krakow

Neural Correlates of Numbtouch in Healthy Subjects, The Organization for Human Brain Mapping, (2020), Online.
Somatosensory Perception Varies Across the Cardiac Cycle. MindBrainBody Symposium, (2019), Berlin.
Somatosensory Detection and Localization Across the Cardiac Cycle. CuttingEEG conference, (2018), Paris.
Somatosensory Detection and Localization Across the Cardiac Cycle. Society for Neuroscience, (2018), San Diego.
Do Somatosensory Detection and Localization Vary Across the Cardiac Cycle?. MindBrainBody Symposium, (2017), Berlin.