Open Day | Master’s Degree in Cognitive Science @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 📅 16 April 2026, 10:00 📍 Piazza Manifattura 1, Building 10, Rovereto 🇬🇧 In English An opportunity to explore the programme, admission procedures, labs, and meet faculty and students. Details: event.unitn.it/opendays-lm/en

Registration for the Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (#CAOs2026) - Functional and Neural Perspectives is open until April 20. 📍Join us in Rovereto, Italy, from 6 to 8 May. 🔗More info: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/ @moritzwurm.bsky.social

Giorgio Fumagalli del @cimecunitrento.bsky.social si è aggiudicato il bando “Art Therapy” 2025 di Airalzh Onlus con il progetto “Creative Minds”, per studiare come l’arteterapia possa sostenere #memoria, #attenzione e benessere. ℹ️ mag.unitn.it/premi-e-riconoscimenti/121724/menti-creative

1/2 Il cervello è plastico: si modella in risposta all’ambiente in cui viviamo. 🧠 Per la #BrainAwarenessWeek, uno spunto importante dalle neuroscienze sul legame tra cervello e contesto sociale. 🌍

@cimecunitrento.bsky.social hosted the Trentino-Alto Adige regional round of the Olimpiadi delle Neuroscienze. Three students qualified for the podium. The National Final will take place at UniCamerino on May 22-23. 🙌 Thanks to all the participants and everyone who made this initiative possible.

3.14 / Happy #PiDay! π reminds us that abstract mathematical knowledge is grounded in cognitive processes that allow the brain to represent quantities and relations. #numericalcognition #cimec_unitrento

Yesterday, the seminar “The Role of Brain Oscillations in Cognitive Functions” took place at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, Rovereto. We thank Domenica Veniero, Luca Ronconi & all participants for a valuable exchange on neural oscillations & cognitive functions🙌🧠✨ @carlominiussi.bsky.social

1/2 CIMeC PhD Colloquium Series: Predictive computations in the human brain | Mar 12| 16:00 | Online The 🧠 is fundamentally a predictive organ, using internal models to extrapolate future events from current inputs. In this talk, Floris de Lange covers the why, what & how of predictive processing

Elisa Frasnelli and Selene Schintu @cimecunitrento.bsky.social took part in Trentino Sviluppo’s initiative “Zigherane, docenti, scienziate”, promoted in the lead-up to International Women’s Day, sharing reflections on #cognition and #neuroscience.

1/3 📄🧠 New paper out in Nature Protocols! Featuring Prof. @paolobelardinelli.bsky.social (CIMeC, UniTrento) with Christoph Zrenner & Ulf Ziemann: “Oscillatory brain state-dependent stimulation with TMS combined with EEG”.

📅 Save the date: March 11 at 13:30 to 15:00 📝 Seminar "The role of brain oscillations in cognitive functions" 📍 Venue: Learning room, Building 10 Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto 🎤 Speakers: Domenica Veniero & Luca Ronconi @carlominiussi.bsky.social

🐝 Recap “IBC: Impollinatori, biodiversità e cambiamento” con Fondazione Cassa Rurale Trento. Frasnelli, Liga e Haase @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: clima e stress ambientali possono alterare orientamento e cognizione dell’ape da miele.

1/3 Research update: Sara Assecondi + Dimitrios Stoupis published an MRI-based #tDCS modeling study in Journal of Neural Engineering (IOP): “Anatomy-informed recommendations for electrode montage and shape…”

Today at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: talk by Lais Razza (Ghent Univ.) on optimizing prefrontal non-invasive brain stimulation Anatomical differences can influence the overall effects of #NIBS effects on the PFC; personalized protocols may reduce outcome variability ⓘ eventi.unitn.it/it/advancing...

Places we’re not in: In a Nature News & Views #2025, Prof. Uwe Mayer offers an expert take on bird “place cells” firing not only when an animal is in a location, but also when it views it from afar, connecting attention, memory & planning. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #neurobiology

Elisa Frasnelli e Maria Bortot hanno presentato i primi risultati di MicroBee (Fondazione CARITRO) sul ruolo del microbiota nella salute, nella locomozione e nelle abilità cognitive dell’ape da miele, durante un incontro tecnico per gli apicoltori trentini ℹ️ www.palazzoroccabruna.it/seminario-te...

Applications open (EU & equivalents) for the MSc in Cognitive #Neuroscience, Modelling & Behavioral Neuroscience at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, University of Trento. More info ➜ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive...

New paper out! Novel object recognition in the dorsomedial & ventral hippocampus of young domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) Published in Brain Structure & Function @springernature.com by A. Morandi, A. Cumplido-Mayoral & Uwe Mayer 🔗‍️ Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🐝 IBC: Impollinatori, biodiversità e cambiamento “Grazie alle api assicuriamoci il futuro” 📅 19/02 ore 18:00, Palazzo Benvenuti , Sala Nones (TN) Aggiornamenti, demo sperimentale e Q&A Intervengono: Debora Cont, Elisa Frasnelli, Davide Liga e Albrecht Haase Info: eventi.unitn.it/it/ibc-impol...

“Pathways for learning arithmetic: Distinct dynamics for associative and procedural acquisition” Published in Cognition Full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... Congratulations to CIMeC researchers P. Maldonado Moscoso & M. Piazza (@manpiazza.bsky.social), and to all the researchers involved. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

📅 Feb 16 | 10:00 - 11:00 Join the @cimecunitrento.bsky.social & Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) seminar: “The Emergence of Disorder in Spatial and Linguistic Cognition” 📍 Palazzo Fedrigotti, Rovereto 🗣 Prof. Alessandro Treves (SISSA)

From the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences: today we celebrate #connection 🧠 🩵

Join us for the seminar: Advancing the Optimization of Pre-Frontal Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Protocols 🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 13:00 📍 Learning Room, Building 10, Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto Speaker: Lais Razza, Ghent University @carlominiussi.bsky.social

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

A study published in Heliyon (Cell Press), involving our @cimecunitrento.bsky.social researchers, shows that prenatal light exposure shapes brain lateralization in chicks 👇 🔗‍️ doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Our latest paper in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement @springernature.com by Sara Assecondi suggests that gains in visuo-spatial working memory don’t reliably translate into better reading performance. 🧠📚 Full article: doi.org/10.1007/s41465-025-00342-4 #cognitivetraining #cognitiveaging

New consensus guidance for assessing #SocialCognition in #NeurocognitiveDisorders, with clinical recommendations. SIGNATURE’s 2nd output (@aledod.bsky.social/CIMeC_UniTrento; C. Cerami/IUSS Pavia, et al.) Published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy. 🔗 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1186/s131...

Explore the Cognitive Neuroscience track at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: brain imaging, decision-making, memory, attention. Apply MSc Cognitive Science! Non-EU deadline: Mar 4, 2026. ℹ️corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science @urihasson.bsky.social #cognitiveneuroscience

The Fundamental Behavioural Neuroscience track @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: hands-on animal models to study brain development/evolution, behaviour & cognition + cutting-edge behavioural, molecular & neurobiological techniques. Apply by March 4 (non-EU deadline) ℹ️ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science

Bridge AI and linguistics with the Computational and Theoretical Modelling of Language and Cognition (CLC) track at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Apply to our MSc in Cognitive Science First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: March 4, 2026. ℹ️ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science #cimec_unitrento #AI

Applications are open for the 2026/27 MSc in Cognitive Science at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Apply now: corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive... #cimec_unitrento #neuroscience

A recent paper by Arianna Brancaccio, Cora M. Lanza, and Selene Schintu, published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social , examines how interhemispheric attentional dynamics change with the functional state of the #attentional network. 🔗 shorturl.at/hnSe6

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