Marie Habermann

Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...

Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published!

We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.

You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X

Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

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Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨

🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.

📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

We explore different operationalization of control and discuss how expectations, timing, and motor planning might influence brain activity and perception in studies on control over pain.

How control modulates pain AbstractPain, an indicator of potential tissue damage, ideally falls under individual control. Although previous work shows a trend towards reduced pain in contexts where pain is controllable, there i...

Curious about how control affects our experience of pain and how this has been investigated?

✨Check out our new review in TICS!✨with A. Strube & C. Büchel

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