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David Plans
Ba(Hons), MSc, PhD
DPhil Candidate
- Clinical Social Cognition (Bird Lab)
Telemetric measurement of interoception and digital therapeutics
My early research focused on computational intelligence approaches to understand and classify emotion in music making, which forced me to examine the psychophysiology of play, flow and stress. Having built technology (apps+sensors) that attempts to measure stress and interoception in neurotypical adults, I am now investigating the influence of interoceptive awareness on stress, as well as aspects of organisational behaviour surrounding empathy and vulnerability. I'm most interested in whether training interoceptive awareness through digital forms of biofeedback could contribute to better stress resilience and foster empathy, currently building pilot studies to test the feasibility of these ideas in large populations.
Recent publications
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A feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET).
Journal article
Lloyd A. et al, (2025), Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health, 19
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No differences between remote and laboratory-based testing of cardiac interoceptive accuracy using the phase adjustment task.
Journal article
Spooner R. et al, (2024), Sci Rep, 14
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Exploring sex differences in cardiac interoceptive accuracy using the phase adjustment task.
Journal article
Spooner R. et al, (2024), Psychophysiology
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A Feasibility Study of a Preventative, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Mental Health Problems in Adolescence: Building Resilience Through Socioemotional Training (ReSET)
Preprint
Lloyd A. et al, (2024)
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Trial protocol for the Building Resilience through Socio-Emotional Training (ReSET) programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents.
Journal article
Viding E. et al, (2024), Trials, 25