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News - The Sense Le jeudi 4 décembre, The Sense a organisé une nouvelle édition de Pizza & Science, un rendez-vous devenu incontournable pour découvrir de l’intérieur les projets innovants de nos unités de recherche…

New study (Pittet et al., 2026) shows how NOA & BuzzClip aids complement the white cane, enhancing autonomy & safety for people who are blind. A collaboration between The Sense & @Biped Robotics. 🎧 Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/flcgxatkmg
 🌐 #Accessibility #Innovation

Conférence "Médecine complémentaire et médecine intégrative" - The Sense Participez au cycle de conférences « Soins durables ». Chantal Berna Renella (PI The Sense) explore l’intégration des médecines complémentaires en santé.

🌿 Conférence : Médecine complémentaire et médecine intégrative
🗣️Chantal Berna Renella – découvrez comment intégrer médecines complémentaires de manière sécurisée.
📅 11/03/2026 | 🕡 18:30 | 📍Sion
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🔬 International Day of Women and Girls in Science | Feb 11
Women represent only 1 in 3 researchers worldwide — and less than 10% in some countries.
At The Sense, 60% of affiliated researchers are women. Diversity is our strength.
#WomenInScience #IDWGS #TheSense

Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping - npj Science of Learning npj Science of Learning - Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping

🔊 Learning to “see” with sound 👂
Asa Kucinkas et al. (2026) show the brain can flexibly learn image-to-sound mappings using sensory substitution (The vOICe). Promising insights for accessible, adaptive tools.
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/knveaemfhn
#Neuroscience #Innovation

Newsletter #06 Stay up-to-date with all the latest news related to The Sense Innovation and Research Center with this new edition of its interactive digital brochure.

Newsletter #06 is out ✨
🏔️ Sense Retreat 2025 | 🍕 Pizza & Science | 🤖 Swiss–Korean Innovation Week | 🔄 Closing the Loop workshop
🎙️ Interview & events inside
🔬 Inside The Sense with Prof. Calbimonte, Prof. Bassolino and Prof. Matusz
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🚨 New preprint! What if individual alpha peak frequency—often treated as a global marker of brain function and clinical phenotypes—actually reflects a mixture of independent alpha rhythms with distinct frequencies and neural origins? That’s what @davidpascucci.bsky.social and I suggest here. #EEG

Starting 2026 together 🎉

The Sense support team and CODIR brought together Sense affiliates in Vevey for their annual New Year Dinner 🤝

A friendly evening dedicated to exchanges, networking and collaboration 🍽️

Thank you to everyone who joined us. Looking forward to 2026 ✨

A new perspective on tympanic membrane dynamics 👂
New paper by Sense PI Lukas Anschuetz, published in Hearing Research and featured on the journal’s cover 🏆
First 4D quantification of human tympanic membrane motion using synchrotron microtomography 🔬
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/royiduqjdo

Hypnosis as therapy for non-REM parasomnia: A literature review This systematic review provides an overview of the use of medical hypnosis for non-rapid eye movement parasomnias. It aims to describe the hypnotic in…

🧠 Hypnosis as therapy for non-REM parasomnia: A literature review

A systematic review in Sleep Medicine Reviews, led by PIs affiliated with The Sense explores the potential of medical hypnosis for non-REM parasomnias.

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What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses Objects in motion follow predictable trajectories that the brain can easily anticipate. We investigated the underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on a form of representational momentum (RM), whereby ...

What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🎉 Congratulations to Aurore Fernandez, awarded an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant!

She will join Prof. Eva Kosek’s lab at @karolinskainst in Aug/Sept 2026, contributing to cutting-edge research on chronic pain mechanisms.

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/wtsoppjmsc

#TheSense #Postdoc #Grant

✨ 𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬.

Thank you for your trust and for all the meaningful projects shared this year.
Wishing you a joyful festive season,

#TheSense #HappyHolidays #EndOfYear

Pizza & Science – A New Dive into Sensory Research at the Mat-Tech Lab - The Sense On Thursday, December 4, The Sense hosted a new edition of Pizza & Science, an event that has become a key opportunity to gain an insider’s view of the innovative projects developed within our research units…

🍕🔬 Pizza & Science!

On Dec 4, participants explored the Mat-Tech Lab at Energypolis campus, Sion 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬. From AI 🤖 to visual perception 👁️, science met conviviality over pizza 🍕.

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Sense Retreat 2025 – 2nd Edition: Innovation and Research in Champéry - The Sense Between mountains and innovation, the Palladium de Champéry and the Hôtel Suisse provided an inspiring setting for the second edition of the Sense Retreat, ...

🌄 Sense Retreat 2025 – 2nd Edition brought together 60+ researchers in Champéry!

✨ Keynotes by top scientists
📊 Datablitz & Poster sessions
💡 Innovation & neuroscience at the heart

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The interplay between motion perception and perceptual completion Effective visual perception surmounts noise, partial information and dynamic changes in stimuli, resulting in perceptual completion that is often stud…

🧠 How does the brain put things together into a unified percept when portions of what we see are moving? How does this differ across individuals?
New study published in Neuroimage & led by @micahmurray.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @thesensech.bsky.social #CHUV

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

🚀 Breakthrough in human behavior analysis!
The Sense presents ADVANCE, a tech that automatically analyzes videos in natural settings, enabling authentic behavior observation, faster results, and more precise data for research and clinical use.

#TheSense #Innovation #Research

Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans - Nature Communications This study shows that transient blindness at birth leaves lasting effects on early visual functions, while higher visual regions encoding categories remain unaffected, revealing different sensitive periods for different functions in vision.

How the brain learns to see 🧠?
New study in Nature Communications including Olivier Collignon from The Sense 🌟
EVC affected ⚡ | VOTC resilient 🧩 | AI models reproduce dissociation 🤖
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/nwueqmusdi
 #neuroscience #TheSense #brain

🎗️ Pain Awareness Month
🧠 At The Sense, Prof. Chantal Berna Renella’s team studies how hypnosis & mindfulness affect stress, pain, and cognition.
💡 Translating neuroscience into hospital care to improve lives.
🔗 the-sense.ch/pain-interoception/?lang=en
#PainAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience

🔬 Alix Trouillet (Neuro-Otology, The Sense) gave the keynote at the Career & Poster Day, Master in Medical Biology @CHUV 🎓
🦻 Topic: “Bionic Hearing through a Soft Auditory Cortex Implant” 💡
Students engaged directly & asked questions 🙌
#TheSense #BionicHearing #Innovation

Selon une récente étude, l'attirance pour l'alcool se retrouve chez le chimpanzé - 19h30 - Play RTS Play RTS vous permet de visionner ou d'écouter de nombreuses émissions tv ou radio, quand et aussi souvent que vous le souhaitez.

🐒 Chimpanzees also enjoy alcohol!
🗣️ Prof. Erica Van de Waal shares her expert view on RTS 19h30
🎥 https://f.mtr.cool/ufgnlniwvl
#PrimateResearch #Neuroscience

🧠 Aging affects body perception! Changes in proprioception can alter body ownership and size estimation in older adults.

Discover new insights in this iScience study: 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/vcdyoxqowt

#Neuroscience #HealthyAging #Proprioception #iScience

💡 Intuition: your brain’s secret superpower!

That gut feeling, instant insight, or sudden idea isn’t mystical—it’s your brain working fast, syncing networks, memories & senses to help you decide quickly.

🎙️ : Prof. M. Murray

📖 https://f.mtr.cool/weieqzfxhx

EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction Nearly a century after the first EEG recordings, we assess the progress made in EEG research, focusing on the challenges, novel theories and methods, …

🧠 Advances in Brain Oscillations 🧠

Following the symposium "Oscillatory Brain Waves", Prof. David Pascucci (PI of The Sense) and his team have published an article. 

👉 Read the article: https://f.mtr.cool/rjweukaazm

#EEG #BrainWaves #Research

🧠 Sense Seminar: Decision in Context
🎙️ Dr. Pinar Goktepe (ATR Kyoto)
📅 Aug 28 | 🕑 14:00–15:00
Explore how context shapes flexible decision-making using EEG, fMRI & machine learning.
🔗ℹ️📹 https://f.mtr.cool/kjkmilvvbs

🧠 What role does feedback play? 👁️

This was the focus of the workshop “Closing the Loop: The Role of Feedback in Neural Processing and Perception”, co-organized by Prof. David Pascucci, Maëlan Menétrey and Prof. Michael Herzog.

👉 Read the full article here: https://f.mtr.cool/erdnvkdtft

#Workshop

Anticipatory and reactive mechanisms of habituation to visual distractors - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Anticipatory and reactive mechanisms of habituation to visual distractors

🧠 How our brain learns to ignore distractions

A news study by David Pascucci and colleagues in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) reveals that the brain anticipates repeated distractor and reallocates attention.

📖 The article: https://f.mtr.cool/fyblizjnzh

#Research

🔍 On June 30, @TheSense & @ZS met at @CHUV to explore #synergies in #biopharma.

🎯 Goal: understand each other & identify future #collaborations.

💡 Focus: #patientcentered innovation, treatment experience, #digitalhealth tools & #medtech.

🧠 World Brain Day 🧠

Today, we shine a light on brain health and its impact on individuals, families and communities around the world. ✨

This year’s theme "Brain Health for All Ages" reminds us that it's a lifelong journey. 👶👴 

👉 A key focus in The Sense's research. 

#WBD2025

📰 New interesting study
by @davidpascucci.bsky.social
@unil.bsky.social @thesensech.bsky.social
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Defining the Future of Human Augmentation From May 19 to 23, 2025, the Swiss-Korean Innovation Week took place in Seoul to explore the theme of “human augmentation”.

🔬 Exploring Human Augmentation

From May 19 to 23, The Sense took part in the Swiss–Korean Innovation Week 2025 in Seoul, where Swiss and Korean experts gathered to explore this very question. 👥

👉 Read the article here: https://f.mtr.cool/vejoltcogi

#HumanAugmentation #Innovation