Publications
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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
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Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2021). Heartbeat and somatosensory perception. NeuroImage, 238, 118247. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118247
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Nikulin, V.V., and Villringer, A. (2020). Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2020.12.29.424693
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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
Presentations
Oral Presentations
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Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception, Karolinska Institute, (2022). Online
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How To Analyze Heart-Brain Interactions and Their Link to Behavior, Workshop at MindBrainBody Symposium, (2021). Online
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Heartbeat and Somatosensory Perception, Internal Colloquium of Max Planck Institute, (2021). Online
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How Does the Heartbeat Affect Somatosensory Perception?, Brain Rhythms Meeting, Columbia University, (2020). Online
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Somatosensory Localization in the Absence of Conscious Detection, Neuromatch Conference, (2020). Online
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Heart–Brain Interactions Shape Somatosensory Perception and Evoked Potentials. Interoception Meeting, University College of London, (2020). Online
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How Does the Heartbeat Affect Somatosensory Perception? Neuroxillations Journal Club, University of Oxford, (2020). Online
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Somatosensory Perception Varies Across the Cardiac Cycle. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (2018). Krakow
Poster Presentations
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Neural Correlates of Numbtouch in Healthy Subjects, The Organization for Human Brain Mapping, (2020), Online.
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Somatosensory Perception Varies Across the Cardiac Cycle. MindBrainBody Symposium, (2019), Berlin.
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Somatosensory Detection and Localization Across the Cardiac Cycle. CuttingEEG conference, (2018), Paris.
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Somatosensory Detection and Localization Across the Cardiac Cycle. Society for Neuroscience, (2018), San Diego.
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Do Somatosensory Detection and Localization Vary Across the Cardiac Cycle?. MindBrainBody Symposium, (2017), Berlin.
Science Communication
Magazines
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Wie der Herzschlag unsere Wahrnehmung beeinflusst. Quanta Magazine. 2020.
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How your heart influences what you perceive and fear. Spektrum. 2020.
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How the heart affects our perception. Neuroscience News. 2020.
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Wie das Herz die Wahrnehmung beeinflusst . Max Planck Newsroom. 2020.
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Feeling with the heart. Scienmag. 2020.
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How the Heartbeat Influences Conscious Perception. BrainPost. 2020.
Newspaper Articles
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Bilincimiz, kan vücuda pompalanırken ve kalbe geri dönerken farklı işliyor, . Diken. 2020.
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Kalbin bilincimiz üzerine etkileri. Birgun. 2020.
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Alman Psikofizyoloji Derneği, Esra Al’a 2020 Genç Bilim İnsanı Ödülü verdi. Haberturk. 2020.
TV shows
- Decouverte, CBC, Canada (2020)
Public Engagement
- Career Exploration Class for Cheltenham High School, Philadelphia, 2021
- Fingerspitzengefühl gefragt, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 2016