Publications

Al, E., Stephani, T., Engelhardt, M., Haegens, S., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. (2023). Cardiac Activity Impacts Cortical Motor Excitability. PloS Biology, 21(11), e3002393. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002393
Kumral, D., Al, E., Cesnaite, E., Kornej, J., Sander, C., Hensch, T., Zeynalova, S., Tautenhahn, S., Hagendorf, A., Laufs, U., Wachter, R., Nikulin, V., and Villringer, A. (2022). Attenuation of the Heartbeat-Evoked Potential in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 8(10), 1219-1230. 10.1016/j.jacep.2022.06.019
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

Presentations

Oral Presentations

Analyzing Body-Brain Interactions, Workshop at Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (2023). New York City
Heartbeats Impact Perception and Motor Activity, Body-Brain Waves Conference, (2023). Salerno
Heartbeats Impact Perception and Motor Activity, The Joint Meeting of Neuroergenomics & NYC Neuromodulation Conference, (2022). New York City
Cardiac Signals Impact Somatosensory Perception and Motor Activity, Symposium at European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Conference, (2022). Vienna
Cardiac Effects on Perception and Motor Excitability, ECG Talk Series, Aarhus University (2022). Online
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

Poster Presentations

Heartbeat influences visual and auditory perception, Society for Neuroscience, (2023), Washington DC.
Heartbeats influence visual perception in the absence of distractors, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, (2023), San Fransisco.
Cardiac Signals Influence Cortical Motor Excitability, Society for Neuroscience, (2022), San Diego
Cardiac Signals Influence Cortical Motor Excitability, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, (2022), San Fransisco.
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.

Science Communication

Interview with B.Sc Students of Experimental Neuroscience Class for University of Leipzig, Leipzig, 2022 & 2023
Meet with a Scientist, Barnard College, 2022
Career Exploration Class for Cheltenham High School, Philadelphia, 2021
Fingerspitzengefühl gefragt, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 2016