New Proc. Royal Society B paper by T. Simon, E. Frasnelli (CIMeC UniTrento), A. Wilkinson, K. Guo & D. Mills: dogs use right visual field/left brain for positive anticipation and left visual field/right brain for frustration, supporting the valence hypothesis. 🔗https://shorturl.at/mS3JA

Carlo Miniussi & Sara Assecondi contributed to an international collaborative effort that led to the updated guidelines on low-intensity #tES, published in Clinical Neurophysiology. 🔗 Full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... @carlominiussi.bsky.social

1/4 🧵 Le prof.sse Stefania Pighin, Katya Tentori e Lucia Savadori esplorano il linguaggio dell’incertezza: come percentuali e probabilità orientano le decisioni e il rapporto medico-paziente. Nella terza puntata del podcast “Parliamone bene” del progetto B-Hu-Well. 🎧Link nei commenti.

🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026 A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science. Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more. Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...

Workshop recap: Real-time brain-state #TMS - #EEG - treating neural variability as information. Topics: methodology, state-dependent modulation, individualized targeting + T4TE overview. 🙌 Thanks to Bortoletto, Tomasevic, Brancaccio & participants. 🔗 shorturl.at/tdcFL @carlominiussi.bsky.social

🧵1/2 Belluzzi & Fairhall @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, show that context-specific predictions of semantic content rely on a left-dominant fronto-temporo-parietal network, the Active Prediction Network, partially overlapping with the semantic control system.

CIMeC Colloquium Series Full house. Great talks. 🙌 Thanks to Prof. Evelina Fedorenko, Hope Kean, Andrea de Varda and all participants for an inspiring session on language, reasoning, and models that “think.” ⓘ phd.unitn.it/drcimec/104/cimec-colloquium-series @hopekean.bsky.social

📅 CIMeC PhD Colloquium Series: Oct 17, h15 📍 Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto 🎙️ Speakers Evelina Fedorenko • Language & thought in humans & machines @hopekean.bsky.social • Neural infrastructure of logical reasoning Andrea de Varda • Cost of thinking in humans & large reasoning models ⓘ shorturl.at/PtbEi

1/2🧵 Ranking-based analysis: left-handers are overrepresented across tiers, and especially at the top, in fencing & table tennis. While the classic "rare style" advantage helps explain this, other factors may also be at play.

Join us for the workshop “From neural variability to personalised interventions: a real-time brain-state TMS-EEG approach” 🧠 🗓 Oct 23, 2025 | 13:00-16:30 📍 CIMeC Conference Room, Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto More info 🔗 shorturl.at/tdcFL @carlominiussi.bsky.social

📸 A recap collage capturing the spirit of the #MAPS2025 Metacognition, Aging & Perception Symposium, held on Sept 23-24 at Piazza della Manifattura, Rovereto, Italy.

@annabavaresco.bsky.social and @tlmnhut.bsky.social show: supervised pruning of a DNN’s feature space better aligns with human category representations, selects distinct subspaces for different categories, and more accurately predicts people’s preferences for GenAI images. doi.org/10.1145/3768...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence TL;DR 🧵👇

New article “Disentangling Metabolic & Neurovascular Timescales Supporting Cognitive Processes” by CIMeC_UniTrento in collaboration with leading partner institutes Congrats F.Saviola, S. Tambalo, L. Beghini, A. Ferrari, B. Cassone, D. Van De Ville, J. Jovicich! #PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506513122

🦉🧠 #NotteDellaRicerca: Stand 48 “Il Cervello Predittivo”, con @moritzwurm.bsky.social. 📍 MUSE Trento, piano +3 📅 26/9, dalle 17 alle 24 👉 nottedellaricerca.tn.it

🔢 Il @cimecunitrento.bsky.social alla #NotteDellaRicerca 2025! Stand 49 “Dove nascono i numeri”, Piano +3 Un viaggio neuroscientifico dai pulcini ai matematici, con Elena Eccher. 📍 MUSE Trento 📅 26/9, dalle 17 alle 24 👉 Programma completo: nottedellaricerca.tn.it

🧠 New article in Cognition: The development of probabilistic reasoning during early childhood by Placì and CIMeC researchers Pighin, Mastropasqua & Tentori. How early do children grasp probabilities? Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106283

🦉The "Notte della Ricerca" is back on September 26, 2025, and @cimecunitrento.bsky.social will be there! Discover science like you’ve never seen it before: events, challenges, and innovations that bring research to life. 👉 Check out the full program: nottedellaricerca.tn.it @moritzwurm.bsky.social

#CallforExpressionofInterest Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 📅Deadline: September 14, 2025 📍 Rovereto, Italy 🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy @szymanikjakub.bsky.social

🧠 Evan F. Risko at #MAPS2025 🗓️ Sept 23 | 16:45 - 18:00 Talk "Cognitive Offloading: Adventures in Distributing Cognition" Explore how we use tools & tech to reduce cognitive effort! 🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025 #cognitivescience

🎙️ Ingrid Johnsrude at #MAPS2025 🗓️ Sept 23 | 14:30 -15:45 What is effortful listening and why does it matter, especially as we age? Explore how noise affects cognition and perception. 🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025 #cognitivescience #aging @ingridjohnsrude.bsky.social

📣 Iscrizioni aperte per la conferenza “Mai smettere di ascoltare” su invecchiamento e disturbi uditivi. 📅 26/09/25, ore 9:30 📍 Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto 🎟 Posti limitati 🔗 eventi.unitn.it/it/mai-smett... #MAPS2025 #udito

🎙️ Ophelia Deroy at #MAPS2025 🗓️ Sept 23 | 11:45 - 13:00 Talk: Metacognition across senses and social contexts How does social context shape self-awareness, and how does this evolve with age? 🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

🧠 Stephen Fleming at #MAPS2025 📅 Sept 23 | 9:30 - 10:45 Talk: Post-decisional processing & self-reflective computation Explore how metacognition shapes learning, belief, and awareness. 🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

New paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews by Prof. Carlo Miniussi & Marta Bortoletto explores how neural variability can enhance brain stimulation strategies. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106312 @carlominiussi.bsky.social #NIBS #cimec_unitrento

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠 Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species Very fond of the neurobiology part :) 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

#MAPS2025: Registration extended to 4 Sept! 🧠 Join us in Rovereto (Italy) on Sept 23-24 to explore metacognition, aging & perception. 🎙️ Top speakers, poster sessions, networking, and much more. 🔗 More info: event.unitn.it/maps2025

CIMeC Città 2025: ChatGPT e l’intelligenza artificiale generativa 📅 Oggi, 22 luglio, ore 21.00 📍 Giardino di Palazzo Fedrigotti Si chiude l’edizione 2025 con 𝗣𝗮𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗮: un viaggio tra linguaggio, immagini e apprendimento. 🔗 shorturl.at/QfkRW

A photo recap of CogEvo 2025 #Rovereto: three days of science and exchange across cognition, #neuroscience, development, and evolution. 🙌 Thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, sponsors, and attendees who took part in this edition!

New article out featuring CIMeC researchers Alireza Karami and Manuela Piazza, in collaboration with Elisa Castaldi and Evelyn Eger! @alirezakr.bsky.social, @manpiazza.bsky.social Read more 👇🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08395-z

On Oct 3, Prof. 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗶𝗮𝘇𝘇𝗮 will speak at the Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain conference at Collège de France Her talk “𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁” ⓘ unicog.org/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain 👉 Explore our research, courses, and events at www.cimec.unitn.it @manpiazza.bsky.social‬

🧬 #CogEvo2025 – Lectio Magistralis aperta alla cittadinanza con il Prof. Martino (San Raffaele) 📅 16 luglio 2025 ⏰ 17:30 📍 Palazzo Piomarta, Rovereto 🎙️ “Cosa è la vita: dal simbionte al cyborg” 👉 Segue buffet! Ingresso libero 🔗 eventi.unitn.it @cimecunitrento.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social

Il Prof. Francesco Pavani tra i relatori del ciclo di incontri “Osvaldo ‘Scolta” 🎧 Mai smettere di ascoltare | 27 giugno 2025 ore 18:00 | Giardino di Sant’Osvaldo, Rovereto ⓘ www.cineforumrovereto.it/archives/5712 © nuovocineforumrovereto

🧠 17 giugno, ore 21 - Rovereto CIMeC Città 2025 apre con “Leggere la mente”, conferenza del prof. Roberto Bottini su neuroscienze, IA e tecnologie per decifrare l’attività cerebrale. 📍 Giardino Palazzo Fedrigotti (Urban Center in caso di pioggia) 🎟️ Evento gratuito aperto a tutti.

Save the Date: CIMeC Città 2025 Mini rassegna di conferenze neuroscientifiche 📍 Rovereto | 17/6 - 16/7 🧠 Mente, AI, tecnologia, e molto altro Evento gratuito, ti aspettiamo! #CIMeCCittà2025 #Neuroscienze

🧵 1/3 🧠 How is the human hand motor system organized at rest? A new study by Pierotti, Speranza, Cattaneo & Turella (CIMeC) used TMS + resting-state fMRI to explore changes in brain connectivity after targeting the anterior intraparietal area (hAIP). 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121254

The application period is closing soon! 𝟭𝟳 PhD fellowships are available in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, University of Trento, Italy. 📅 Deadline: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🔗 More info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec

🚨 Registration Deadline Extended! 🚨 Only a few weeks left! The #CogEvo2025 registration deadline has been extended to June 16! Spots are still filling quickly — don’t miss your chance to join us. Secure your place now: event.unitn.it/cogevo/ @cimecunitrento.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social

Stroke: we evidence the importance of re-establishing transient time-windows of excitability in Stroke patient recovery. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/3 The Master’s degree in Cognitive Science at @cimec_unitrento, UniTrento offers a 2-year, in-person program in behavioural, cognitive & computational neuroscience, and computational linguistics. ⏳ EU & equivalent candidates 👉 Apply by May 30, 2025! 🔗 corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science

🐝 Happy World Bee Day, everyone! 🐝 RAI Leonardo showed on this occasion a short feature (in Italian) about our recent publication on imaging the brain of honey bees during sleep: www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche... Min. 4:45 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social #Honeybees #Neuroscience #Sleep

Study how local brain manipulations impact whole-brain connectivity 🔬 1 Fully funded PhD at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, supervisor: Dr. Alessandro Gozzi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 📌Apply by June 5, 2025 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec #Neuroscience #functionalconnectivity @gozziale.bsky.social

🧠 #MAPS2025: Join us in Rovereto, Italy, on September 23-24 for the Metacognition, Aging & Perception Symposium! Invited talks, poster sessions, networking opportunities, and much more 📅 Deadlines • Abstract submission: May 23 • Registration: by July 31 🔗 event.unitn.it/maps2025

🧠 Use functional ultrasound imaging #fUSI to map brain networks mice - Fully funded PhD opportunity at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Supervisor: Dr. Alessandro Gozzi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 📌 Apply by June 5, 2025 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec #Neuroscience @gozziale.bsky.social

🧠 Occhi, memoria e cervello: il Prof. Roberto Bottini @cimecunitrento.bsky.social su RaiNews parla di movimenti oculari, MEG, fMRI e nuove possibilità diagnostiche per malattie neurodegenerative. 📺 Guarda l’intervista: shorturl.at/tkA5m #Neuroscience

🧠 Explore how dendrites shape learning & behavior Apply for a fully funded PhD at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Work with cutting-edge imaging & neurotech, supervisor Federico Rossi, (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia). 📌 Deadline: June 5, 2025 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec

🧠 Join us for a talk by Prof. 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 (Lund Univ.): “Intrauterine development & frontotemporal dementia” 📅 May 22, 16:00 📍 Palazzo Fedrigotti, Rovereto | 💻 Zoom #Neuroscience #dementia

🚨 The #CogEvo2025 registration deadline is almost here — May 30! Spots are filling up fast, so don’t wait! Secure your place now 👉 event.unitn.it/cogevo/ @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

Thinking of a research career in systems & circuit #neuroscience? Join a fully funded PhD at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Project: Neural Geometry of Sensory Behaviour, supervisors Federico Rossi & Peter Neri (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) 📌 Apply by June 5, 2025 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec

📌Apply by June 5, 2025 for a fully funded PhD in Human-Centric Machine Intelligence @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! 🧠 Multi-Modal Foundation Model for Brain Connectivity, supervisor Ludovico Coletta - FBK 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec