SISSA (Trieste, Italy)
🌟 Big news 🌟 This May I’ll join SISSA (Trieste, Italy) as an Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience, leading the Multimodal Communication Lab.
We will combine cognitive, computational and developmental methods to study how we communicate before and beyond words.
🧠🧪 #neuroskyence #neurojobs
International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
At CIMeC, brilliant women advance cognitive neuroscience & help us better understand the brain, across our labs and classrooms
By sharing their achievements, we hope to inspire the next generation of women scientists & support greater inclusion in STEM
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Our lab is back from #BCCCD26 in Budapest 🧠👶
We really enjoyed the conference (and party!) and had a great time sharing our work, meeting old friends and making new ones! 🌟
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ Giulio Degano and Uta Noppeney
In this work, we use music to investigate how the brain extracts and integrates multisensory information in real-world environments.
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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If you are interested in infant EEG time-frequency analyses, have a look at #WTools here:
📌 Publication: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📌 Github repo and Wiki: github.com/cogdevtools/...
A few days ago, @eugenioparise.bsky.social was at Medea BabyLab (IRCCS Medea, LC, Italy) to lead a hands-on tutorial on infant EEG analysis using our #WTools toolbox.
A great opportunity to share expertise and connect with researchers studying brain development in the first years of life! 🧠👶
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...and, over the summer, we also attended the Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution (COGEVO), a unique forum for researchers interested in ethology, development, comparative psychology and neuroscience! 🧠 👶 🧪
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Last week @eugenioparise.bsky.social attended the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD). A great occasion to catch up with friends and share the science of our BabyLab!
04.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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It's a busy conference season for the lab 🔥 We just got back from #DUCOG2025, where we shared some of your ongoing work. It was four intense days of science, networking, and inspiring ideas about how children, adults, and animals understand themselves and others! 🧠👶🧪
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A few weeks ago, our lab attended #CAOS2025 at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. We really enjoyed the talks and had a great time sharing our work during the poster sessions!
26.05.2025 07:30 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Work published in @plosone.org
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Always happy to get feedback. Give it a try and let us know!
🔗 GitHub project (with tutorial): github.com/cogdevtools/WTools/tree/v2.0
🔗 Sample data: osf.io/jtudr
We also offer an illustrated tutorial with sample infant EEG data designed to support novice users, enhance accessibility and promote the transparent and reproducible usage of WTools.
08.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We provide a detailed description of the WTools algorithm for wavelet transformation and we compare it with established state-of-the-art methods.
08.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0While the default settings follow established pipelines in developmental research, WTools also provides the flexibility to accommodate settings more commonly used in adult neuroscience.
08.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Being free and open-source, WTools can be integrated and expanded with new features, making it a handy tool that is growing its popularity in developmental cognitive neuroscience.
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
Come do a PhD in Neuroscience at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Cutting-edge research in a supportive and friendly environment, in beautiful Trentino Alto-Adige (quality of life is top!)
06.05.2025 07:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We're looking for a PhD student interested in developing brains and developing new methods to study them! Anna Kowalczyk and myself have a fully funded PhD position to advance OPM-MEG methods for infant and neonatal brain imaging. 👉 Please repost to help us spread the word 🙏 More info & links 👇
30.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 12 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain.
Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
@sarahjessen.bsky.social of the Babylab @uniluebeck.bsky.social took Martin Orf and me from the @jonasobleser.bsky.social lab along an intriguing journey into the neural fate and consequences of a mother‘s voice in her infant’s brain. Under review now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
04.04.2025 11:54 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New paper published in Human Nature: Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness ⚖️ in Human Infants ! With Luca Surian and Alessandra Geraci 😊
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Interested in infant cognitive development? Here is an interview (in Italian) about "Piccolamente" (English: Littlemind), the new book 📕 for parents and curious people by Stefania Benetti and myself 😊
www.nostrofiglio.it/neonato/cura...
Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social
31.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to the official profile of our Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences - University of Trento (Italy).
📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky!
From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!
🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it
#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Workshop on Concepts Actions and Objects 7-9 May 2025
It's CAOS time! Join us in beautiful Rovereto with a fantastic lineup of speakers: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/
19.03.2025 11:18 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pierre Corvilain, Julie Bertels, et al:
Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
New preprint by lab members @giuliamz.bsky.social and @ambrafer.bsky.social on how prior expectations guide multisensory integration in face-to-face communication. This work raises fascinating questions about the evolutionary, developmental and cultural origins of these priors.
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