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Welcome to the Active Cognition, Embodiment & Environment Lab! We use electrophysiological methods to study how humans actively sense and interact with their environment, moving beyond traditional views of passive perception.

By exploring active sensing—how organisms use movement, such as shifting their eyes or hands, to gather information—we investigate how internal bodily states (interoception) influence these interactions. This emerging field offers new insights into the relationship between interoception and sensory processing.

We are located in the Psychology Department at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Our lab is built upon multidisciplinary collaborations with institutions such as University College London and the Max Planck Institute.

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NEWS (month/year)

– 12/25: Review Paper accepted in NeuroImage on Cardiac, Respiratory, and Gastric rhythms + Ecological paradigms
– 12/25: New preprint on Action-perception coupling and interoception.
– 12/25: PhD students attending workshop on synchronicity; Alex giving keynote.
– 12/25: Alex will talk in the ICN at Univ. College London and at City St. George’s Univ. London. See you in the UK!
– 09/25: All PhD students and Alex (invited talk) have been accepted in the Adriatica Summer School. See you in Italy!
– 07/25: Paper accepted in Biological Psychology, first one from Angelia Caparco!
– 05/25: We’ve launched the new MSc in Cognition & Society. Info: video & program
– 02/25: We’ve acquired a mobile lab: a van with portable apparatus to run experiments in the wild.