BabyLab CIMeC

GitHub - cogdevtools/WTools at v2.0 A Matlab® based toolbox for time-frequency analysis - GitHub - cogdevtools/WTools at v2.0

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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posters

Alice poster

Giulia poster

...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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friends

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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!

Volatility-driven learning in human infants Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.

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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Dubrovnik

Sunbathing

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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! 🧠👶🧪

CAOs dinner

Alice poster

Alice poster

Giulia poster

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!

Work published in @plosone.org

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.

We provide a detailed description of the WTools algorithm for wavelet transformation and we compare it with established state-of-the-art methods.

While the default settings follow established pipelines in developmental research, WTools also provides the flexibility to accommodate settings more commonly used in adult neuroscience.

Being 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.

WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...

🚨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!)

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 👇

📢 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...

New paper published in Human Nature: Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness ⚖️ in Human Infants ! With Luca Surian and Alessandra Geraci 😊

rdcu.be/egamh

stimolare lo sviluppo cerebrale del neonato - Nostrofiglio.it Come stimolare lo sviluppo cerebrale del neonato? Quando riconosce i volti? A queste e ad altre domande hanno risposto i ricercatori.

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...

Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life Infants are sensitive to their own respiration and heartbeat already in the first two years of life.

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

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

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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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/...

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/

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.

Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Looking forward to bcccd.org in Budapest this week! You can meet our lab members @eugenioparise.bsky.social @ambrafer.bsky.social @giuliamz.bsky.social @aliceguerrini.bsky.social 🧠🧪👶

There are still spots available on this cog dev neuro list! Let us know if you'd like to be added :)

WTools: a MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...

A new preprint with @ambrafer.bsky.social, Luca Filippin and @marcobuiatti.bsky.social: a very user friendly Matlab based toolbox for wavelet analysis of the (infant) EEG:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Give it a try!