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Cognitive Neuroscience research lab focusing on perception & recognition of objects & actions at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social Head: @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt
For this week’s Journal Club, Pedro Palhares shared the findings of his latest study, “TMS-EEG reveals causal dynamics of the premotor cortex during musical improvisation”. 🧠💡
The article is currently in preprint and available here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares participated in the seminar “Music as an Interdiscipline” at CEIS20, bringing together the music research community of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social.
📸 Ana Margarida Cardoso | MusicAnalytica Project | CEIS20
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Such inspiring days at #SAW2025!
Thank you to our amazing speakers, scientific committee, staff, sponsors Hospital da Luz Coimbra and ANT Neuro,
and all the attendees who joined us at the Universidade de Coimbra for an exciting event in cognitive neuroscience! 🧠👀
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Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social
27.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
François Osiurak on the social brain is now on! Come to the auditorium, we’re waiting for you! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
27.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Go, go poster presenters!
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Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness!
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Share your pictures with us by tagging us!
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Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium!
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The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now!
Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities.
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📢 Save the Date!
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Congratulations to Oualid Ramdani on completing his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering with the work “Unravelling the Neural Bases of Material and Object Perception”.
Wishing you all the best for the future, Oualid!
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SAW2025 is in the news!
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noticias.uc.pt/artigos/futu...
🔍 🧠 How do we look inside the brain?
Discover how MRI creates detailed images of our brain, test your spatial perception, and explore the science behind fun visual illusions!
Join us at European Researchers’ Night in Coimbra!
📆 Sept 26, 17h–00h
📍Research Point 21 (Portagem)
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Joana Sayal is using EEG to study how brain waves synchronize with auditory rhythms — and how this affects states like focused attention and mind-wandering. 🧠👂
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Luca Serrière, José Gomes, and Xingnan Zhao are at the University of Cambridge for #COGNESTIC 2025, an immersive training at the @mrccbu.bsky.social to boost skills in cognitive neuroimaging!🧠
16.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🧠👀 Seeing and Acting Workshop
📆September 26-27, 2025
Join us at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social for two days of inspiring talks and discussions on the brain, mind, perception, and action!
🔗 uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/program/
Final Call: September 15 Deadline Approaching!
Want to be part of SAW – the Seeing and Acting Workshop?
This is your moment: don’t miss out on being part of it! 🎯
www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
Today, we welcomed Dr. David Whitney (UC Berkeley) for a talk on emotion perception. 🧠
His lecture, “The aperture problem of emotion perception”, highlighted recent work from the Whitney Lab for Perception and Action. 💡
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🚨 New paper in @natcomms.nature.com
Exciting study from a Polish research team led by Łukasz Bola (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences), in collaboration with Alfonso Caramazza, ERA Chair holder at @cogbooster.bsky.social .
📄 full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎯Registration deadline August 31!
Already excited for the SAW - Seeing and Acting Workshop taking place at @ucoimbra.bsky.social? 🤩
Do join us!
👉https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/
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Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
Here they are, Joana Sayal and Pedro Torres Palhares, all set to present their scientific posters at the 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition! 🧠🎶
Great work!👏
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Congratulations to Roberto dos Santos on completing his Master’s in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience at FMUC!
His thesis, on ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, was supervised by @andre-peres.bsky.social (Proaction Lab) and Maria Ribeiro (CIBIT, ICNAS).
Excellent work! 👏
Wishing all the best to @andre-peres.bsky.social on his new role as a professor at BIOME (UFRN) with the ObjectColumns project!
The project explores how the human brain processes visual information to improve AI algorithms, and it's funded by Conhecimento Brasil.
Well done! 👏
🎯Abstract submission by July 31!
Additional information and guidelines can be found at
uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
Joana Carvalho, alongside Jorge Almeida and Zohar Tal, joins IndiBrain, an #MSCActions Doctoral Network led by Frans Cornelissen (UMCG, NL)!
The team will host PhD students to study what makes each brain unique.
Congrats! 👏
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Congrats to Zohar Tal on the FCT funding for the project “CrossToPlasticity”! 🎉
The study explores auditory cortex organization in congenitally deaf individuals using fMRI and behavioral analysis, aiming to advance cochlear implant development. 🧠👂
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Lénia Amaral presented her work at the @imrf.bsky.social!
Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time” reflects her postdoctoral work with @striemamit.bsky.social at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University.
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Abstract submission by July 31! 👇
www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
