Francesca Fardo
@FrancescaFardo
Neuroscientist at @CFIN_AU • brain • spinal cord • pain and temperature perception
Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Read the full thread below for details!


I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliantly insightful Sarah Crespi on the @ScienceMagazine podcast about what it means to experience an illusion of pain based on science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…! Catch the full interview starting at 26:44. science.org/content/podcas…
1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵👇biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @AshleyTyrer, where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Happy to share our latest publication, out now in @CognitionJourn, where we find that metacognitive self-beliefs are updated in a suprisingly domain-specific manner. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
We propose that six main mechanisms of neural #oscillations contribute to multi-timescale neural processing in multisensory (and unisensory) integration: Amplitude modulation, phase resetting, entrainment, phase-amplitude coupling, phase coupling; envelope coupling
👇Poster FR254 @IASPpain
Finally, don’t miss @EhmsenFischer! Rumor has it he’s a ‘crazy Norwegian who recoded the HGF in Stan.’ While he’s neither crazy nor Norwegian, the rest is spot on! Go find this brilliant Dane and ask him anything about computational modeling you’ve always wanted to know! #WC2024
Finally, don’t miss @EhmsenFischer! Rumor has it he’s a ‘crazy Norwegian who recoded the HGF in Stan.’ While he’s neither crazy nor Norwegian, the rest is spot on! Go find this brilliant Dane and ask him anything about computational modeling you’ve always wanted to know! #WC2024
