Liuba Papeo

📣 ERC grantees: this one’s for you!
AERG, together with the ERC (@erc.europa.eu), is appointing
Ambassadors for ERC in:

📍 Bulgaria | Estonia | Hungary | Latvia | Lithuania | Malta | Netherlands | Portugal

Interested? Don’t miss the chance—apply now!

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aerg.eu/news/call-fo...

YouTube video by CNRS Délégation Rhône Auvergne Conversations autour des bébés au Babylab de Lyon

In 1000 days, a baby learns to speak, walk, reason, acquires social norms, and begins to shape their own personality. At the @babylyon.bsky.social, we are dedicated to understanding how this extraordinary journey unfolds.
Here’s our story www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMn...
@cnrs.fr @erc.europa.eu

YouTube video by CNRS Délégation Rhône Auvergne Conversations autour des bébés au Babylab de Lyon

👶 En quelques mois seulement, les bébés franchissent des étapes importantes… Comment se développent-ils aussi rapidement ? Le BabyLab Lyon cherche à répondre à cette question ; Avec la participation de @jrhochmann.bsky.social @ljubapi.bsky.social de l’@isc-mj.bsky.social

🎬👇

It’s not going to be easy for those of us who come after you. But we’ll be standing on the shoulders of giants :)

A fantastic news for all 👏🏻
@epanlab.bsky.social

#PImeetings
Mood of the day:

We were so lucky to have you around! 💙 Thanks for your visit at @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social - come back anytime!

Thank YOU Vale!!

Visiting the Biotech in Geneve and discovering a vibrant scientific community and the most exciting research in neuroscience. Such a blast!!!

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time

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

Want a younger brain? Learn another language A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.

Being multilingual est bueno para el cerebro 😇

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com

“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth”

Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐

It’s already begun. The increase in the number of applications for European fellowships, grants and positions from
US-based candidates is massive!

The effect of ostensive communication on immediate and delayed memory of novel and familiar action patterns - Memory & Cognition Actions are often learnt incidentally by observing other individuals. How aspects inherent to the social context in which an action is seen affect action learning remains poorly understood. Here we st...

🚨new article with C. Galusca & L. Bonatti @springernature.com
Learning is best when a teacher engages directly with the learner, e.g., by routinely gazing toward them. Is social engagement always beneficial for learning? If not, when?
Full story in open access 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Frontiers | Timing matters! Academic assessment changes throughout the day The influence of timing on decision-making processes has garnered significant attention across various domains, yet its impact on academic assessment remains...

Take your tests at midday!!!

Results demonstrate a Gaussian distribution of passing rates throughout the day, with a significant peak at midday.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pro-Climate Sentiments Are More Common Than You Think A new study highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception.

A new study published in Psychological Science, by @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social from @acee.princeton.edu, highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception. #ClimateChange

Congratulations to the new generation of ERC grantees!!
The AERG looks forward to welcome you in our community.
To know more on the AERG activities and how become a member 👉 aerg.eu
#ERC

The beautiful Hall of Mirrors that today hosts an exciting symposium on “The underconceptualization of everyday life”, put together by @ericman.bsky.social 🤩
with @bpomie.bsky.social @benedek.bsky.social and myself at the ESPP conference in Warsaw. So much to think about !

Today at #ECVP25 @mmellon.bsky.social presented new data of an #fNIRS study providing the first evidence of selectivity for social interaction events in visual cortex in 6- and 10-month-old babies 👶🏻
Tempting to think that this reveals where social perception begins in the brain 🧠
@ecvp.bsky.social

At the #ECVP2025 today Violette Munin presented her new fMRI work on the visual stream for processing social information.
If you are around and want to continue the discussion, we are here for this ☺️
Stay tuned for more talk from our lab in the upcoming days!
@ecvp.bsky.social @isc-mj.bsky.social

And here is Violette Munin celebrating her first first author paper with a wonderful marble cake 😍

If you are aware of any relevant study that is missing, let us know and we’ll update the table! 😊

The paper includes a table reviewing available fMRI studies on social interaction perception, organized according to stimulus modality (dynamic vs. static) and content (just facing bodies vs. meaningful interaction), which reveals interesting patterns
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions Gandolfo et al. use a combination of correlational (fMRI) and causal (TMS) methods to show that activity in the left extrastriate body area (lEBA) is required to efficiently perceive face-to-face huma...

• Seeing two bodies face-to-face is sufficient to trigger the social interaction network, with effects that are strongly left lateralized (see also www.cell.com/current-biol... )

Two key findings:
• Key regions of the social-interaction network (pSTS, EVA and MT) show selectivity to social interaction also when depicted in static images. Thus, motion is not necessary to trigger the social interaction network

🚨 new paper out!
Perception of motion and of social interactions are two processes that happen to be localized around the same brain anatomy: lateral occipitotemporal areas. Is motion necessary to see social interactions network?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@cnrs.fr @babylyon.bsky.social

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...