We had a great time at #CAOs2026 last week at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. We really enjoyed the amazing talks and discussions! And thanks to everyone who stopped by our posters! w/ @eugenioparise.bsky.social, @giuliamz.bsky.social and @aliceguerrini.bsky.social

Wrapping up #CAOs2026 Talks by Marieke Mur, Marius Peelen, and Paul Cisek, together with posters & valuable moments of exchange. Thanks to all speakers, presenters, participants, & organisers for two inspiring days 🙌 🔗 event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/ @moritzwurm.bsky.social @stefania-bracci.bsky.social

Highlights from Day 1 of #CAOs2026, the workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects, featuring talks by Domenica Bueti, Laurent Cohen, Brigitte Roder, and Jorge Almeida. 🔗More info: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/ @moritzwurm.bsky.social @stefania-bracci.bsky.social

New in Proceedings B @royalsocietypublishing.org: a study involving Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara and first author Mirko Zanon, CIMeC post doc, et al. suggests that honeybee #numericalcognition is not driven by spatial frequency, but reflects true numerosity processing. 🔗‍️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Le nostre abitudini influenzano il cervello più di quanto pensiamo. Diversi studi mostrano come fattori legati allo stile di vita possano incidere sul rischio di declino cognitivo, soprattutto tra i 45-65 anni. Anche piccoli cambiamenti contano. 🔗‍️ donazioni.unitn.it/oltrelospecc...

Special jury prizes for Elisa Pasquini, PhD student, & Laura Battistel, alumna of @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, at the Aldo Fasolo Award for Neuroscience Communication 👏 🔗 www.intobrain.it/it/finalment...

24/04/2026, PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, cum laude 🎓 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social What a wonderful journey life is. I am so grateful that I’m still out of words..I’ll let these pictures speak. And yes, my lab really did build me a cardboard Iconeus machine!!

📢 Apply by 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟳 to the PhD programme in Cognitive & Brain Sciences at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social (Università di Trento, Italy). 💰4 general-topic grants +9 topic-specific grants. 🧠Topics: neuroimaging, language, memory, decision-making, vision & more. 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec/

🧵 1/2 New publication in Brain Stimulation @braistimjournal.bsky.social: our Prof. Luigi Cattaneo @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is the lead author, together with first author Pier Paolo Berti and colleagues from the Neurosurgery Unit of Bolzano and the University of Milan.

🧵 1/2 A new review in Algorithms by Elena Mongiardini and Paolo Belardinelli @cimecunitrento.bsky.social explores how machine learning and deep learning can advance EEG-guided TMS toward more adaptive and personalized neuromodulation. @paolobelardinelli.bsky.social

#UniTrentoJobs | Open call for a permanent MEG Lab Manager position at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social Deadline: 29 April 2026. More information: lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-pta/co... @moritzwurm.bsky.social @manpiazza.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social

🧵 1/2 Prendersi cura del cervello inizia anche dalle abitudini quotidiane 🧠 Il cervello cambia nel corso della vita e risponde alle esperienze di ogni giorno. 🥗 🏃Alimentazione sana e attività fisica contribuiscono al suo benessere.

OPEN MIKE 📆 22 April 2026, 8:30 pm at Teatro Sociale, Sala Manci (Trento). An English-language evening with researchers and PhD students from UniTrento. Among the speakers: @matildebarucci.bsky.social, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 🔗 www.arditodesio.org/eventi-openm...

Few days left to register for the workshop “CONCEPTS, ACTIONS, and OBJECTS: Functional and Neural Perspectives”. 👉 Deadline: 20 April. 🔗 More info & registration: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/ @moritzwurm.bsky.social

New paper: “It is a matter of size: manipulating body size with virtual reality modulates reward sensitivity” investigates how perceived, not actual, body size influences reward-based behavior and food approach. Published in Scientific Reports. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #virtualreality

Applications are now OPEN for 13 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy! 📅 Deadline: May 7, 2026 🧠 Research fields: brain, neuroscience, cognition, language, neuroimaging, vision and more. ℹ More info 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec/

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