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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 2h

The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How the body and brain process time

Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that subjective time is processed in the insular cortex alongside the supplementary motor a…

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 21h

Awesome collaboration with @lukas-hack.bsky.social , @israelhalperin.bsky.social, Darias Holgado, Chris Englert, @mbieleke.bsky.social, Julia Schüler, @astridzech.bsky.social, @ashenhav.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social 🙌

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 21h

Ontologically, they are structural, stochastic, epistemic & psychological sources of decoupling

1️⃣ System limits
2️⃣ inefficiencies
3️⃣ Measurement mismatches
4️⃣ Motivational misdirection

They span physical & cognitive domains, concurrent & prospective timescales, and subjective & objective effort

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 21h

#preprint 📢

Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3d

A Hitchhiker's guide to physical and cognitive effort: https://osf.io/gm7zf

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3d

When effort fails: Instances and reasons for effort-performance decoupling: https://osf.io/3uces

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 3d

New #DHPRLab preprint💪🥳

Check out Lukas's post below, in case you're interested!

Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · 5d

Exciting milestone, my first PhD preprint is out! 🎉

Together w/ @israelhalperin.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social, we put together A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effort 🪐

If you’ve ever asked “what is effort, and how to measure it?”, this one's for you 😎

🚀 read it here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 4d

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured.

Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!

Interested? Check it out ⬇️

Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · 5d

Exciting milestone, my first PhD preprint is out! 🎉

Together w/ @israelhalperin.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social, we put together A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effort 🪐

If you’ve ever asked “what is effort, and how to measure it?”, this one's for you 😎

🚀 read it here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Maik Bieleke @mbieleke.bsky.social · 12d

📢Preprint
Excited to share our new work on a three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions in sport & exercise.

To assess them, we developed the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire - Sport & Exercise (AEQ-SE).

Curious?⬇️
osf.io/mc6wj_v1

w/ T Götz, R Pekrun, J Schüler & @wanjawolff.bsky.social

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 13d

We should do this more often 🤩

Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 13d

Our team held yesterday’s lab meeting at Travemünde beach, enjoying the Baltic Sea and Hamburg’s maritime spirit as the ‘Gateway to the World.’ 🌊

A picture of our team in front of the Baltic sea

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 19d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

www.nature.com

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 18d

Tuning Out: Boredom, Mind-Wandering and Flow in Classical Musicians: https://osf.io/vt4h8

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in their work?

Then make sure to check out their new registered report on boredom and social behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report

Boredom plays an essential role in everyday life and is a powerful motivator. This registered report investigated the interpersonal consequences of bo…

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 23d

What a cool format! 🎓

I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences.

Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · 26d

Super cool! Bud Craig - a pioneer of #interoception - also linked the insula to time perception. Intuitively this makes sense...the regular, persistent rhythms of our breathing and heart may be fractal rather than perfectly regular or precise - but they're still our internal timekeepers
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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 26d

I found this paper very boring*

Effort and Boredom Shape our Experience of Time

*No I didn't. And, surprise! They propose the insula as a link between boredom and perceived duration

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EFFORT AND BOREDOM SHAPE OUR EXPERIENCE OF TIME

Situations change over time, and so does our experience of them. For example, a task may initially feel engaging but can, over time, become monotonous…

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 26d

I found this paper very boring*

Effort and Boredom Shape our Experience of Time

*No I didn't. And, surprise! They propose the insula as a link between boredom and perceived duration

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EFFORT AND BOREDOM SHAPE OUR EXPERIENCE OF TIME

Situations change over time, and so does our experience of them. For example, a task may initially feel engaging but can, over time, become monotonous…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 25d

Boredom on many levels of inquiry: as body feelings, subjective slowing down of time, and related insular cortex activity. Review out by @wanjawolff.bsky.social and team.

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩

Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks, Martin & I am glad we didn't bore you (too much) 😅

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Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks again for the invitation and the great get-together 😎 That was truly fun talking about research methods, getting carreer advice, and ofc getting to know the typical local food "Frankfurter Grüne Soße" and "Handkäse" - can recommend 😜

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 27d

Two inspiring days in Frankfurt! 🇩🇪 Many thanks to Prof. Chris Englert & his team at Goethe University for inviting us and organizing a great program. We had an excellent scientific exchange, shared projects & enjoyed the city’s landmarks.

Looking forward to hosting them in Hamburg next year! 🌍🤝

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩

Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's fun to play around with that new #stats tool by #Posit.
Could be very helpful for quickly scanning your data frames 🎉

Posit @posit.co · Jul 30

Introducing the Data Explorer in Positron!

Quickly view raw data files (CSV, Parquet, etc.) or dataframes from your #Python / #RStats sessions with a data grid, summary panel, and filter bar.

Learn more: positron.posit.co/data-explore... #Positron

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 Unser @dhprlab.bsky.social und unsere Forschung zur Langeweile im Sport waren Thema im Elbvertiefung-Podcast von @zeit.de 🎙️

Ich habe es mir schon angehört & fand es nicht langweilig 😁

➡️ www.zeit.de/hamburg/2025...

Hamburg-Podcast "Elbvertiefung": Was Langeweile wirklich mit uns macht

Menschen, die sich häufig langweilen, sterben früher, zeigen Studien. Warum? Und was geschieht da überhaupt in uns? Das erforscht ein Hamburger Wissenschaftler.

www.zeit.de

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Aug 25

Such a pleasure to welcome Yannick Ramsel from @ZEIT.de to @dhprlab.bsky.social!

He volunteered to take part in some of our upcoming experimental setups & we had great chats about boredom and DHPRL research in general.

Full-length feature article now in ZEIT (🇩🇪): www.zeit.de/2025/32/lang...

Langeweile: Gähn.

Menschen, die sich oft langweilen, sterben früher, zeigen Studien. Aber was ist Langeweile eigentlich? Der Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff will sie endlich verstehen.

www.zeit.de

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