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Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social

The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now! Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities. @jlugiessen.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social

📢 Save the Date! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Oualid Ramdani on completing his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering with the work “Unravelling the Neural Bases of Material and Object Perception”. Wishing you all the best for the future, Oualid! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social

SAW2025 is in the news! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social noticias.uc.pt/artigos/futu...

🔍 🧠 How do we look inside the brain? Discover how MRI creates detailed images of our brain, test your spatial perception, and explore the science behind fun visual illusions! Join us at European Researchers’ Night in Coimbra! 📆 Sept 26, 17h–00h 📍Research Point 21 (Portagem) @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Joana Sayal is using EEG to study how brain waves synchronize with auditory rhythms — and how this affects states like focused attention and mind-wandering. 🧠👂 @cogbooster.bsky.social

Luca Serrière, José Gomes, and Xingnan Zhao are at the University of Cambridge for #COGNESTIC 2025, an immersive training at the @mrccbu.bsky.social to boost skills in cognitive neuroimaging!🧠

🧠👀 Seeing and Acting Workshop 📆September 26-27, 2025 Join us at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social for two days of inspiring talks and discussions on the brain, mind, perception, and action! 🔗 uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/program/

Final Call: September 15 Deadline Approaching! Want to be part of SAW – the Seeing and Acting Workshop? This is your moment: don’t miss out on being part of it! 🎯 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...

Today, we welcomed Dr. David Whitney (UC Berkeley) for a talk on emotion perception. 🧠 His lecture, “The aperture problem of emotion perception”, highlighted recent work from the Whitney Lab for Perception and Action. 💡 @proactionlab.bsky.social

🚨 New paper in @natcomms.nature.com Exciting study from a Polish research team led by Łukasz Bola (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences), in collaboration with Alfonso Caramazza, ERA Chair holder at @cogbooster.bsky.social . 📄 full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎯Registration deadline August 31! Already excited for the SAW - Seeing and Acting Workshop taking place at @ucoimbra.bsky.social? 🤩 Do join us! 👉https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/ @proactionlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Here they are, Joana Sayal and Pedro Torres Palhares, all set to present their scientific posters at the 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition! 🧠🎶 Great work!👏 @cogbooster.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social #icmpc18

Congratulations to Roberto dos Santos on completing his Master’s in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience at FMUC! His thesis, on ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, was supervised by @andre-peres.bsky.social (Proaction Lab) and Maria Ribeiro (CIBIT, ICNAS). Excellent work! 👏

Wishing all the best to @andre-peres.bsky.social on his new role as a professor at BIOME (UFRN) with the ObjectColumns project! The project explores how the human brain processes visual information to improve AI algorithms, and it's funded by Conhecimento Brasil. Well done! 👏

🎯Abstract submission by July 31! Additional information and guidelines can be found at uc.pt/cogbooster/s...

Joana Carvalho, alongside Jorge Almeida and Zohar Tal, joins IndiBrain, an #MSCActions Doctoral Network led by Frans Cornelissen (UMCG, NL)! The team will host PhD students to study what makes each brain unique. Congrats! 👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Congrats to Zohar Tal on the FCT funding for the project “CrossToPlasticity”! 🎉 The study explores auditory cortex organization in congenitally deaf individuals using fMRI and behavioral analysis, aiming to advance cochlear implant development. 🧠👂 @cogbooster.bsky.social

Lénia Amaral presented her work at the ‪@imrf.bsky.social! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time” reflects her postdoctoral work with @striemamit.bsky.social at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University. @durham-university.bsky.social

Abstract submission by July 31! 👇 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...

Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Wim Vanduffel @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social will be presenting "Mesoscale Functional Organization of the Macaque Cortex" at #SAW2025! Abstract submission by July 31 👇 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares for their poster presentation at @assc28.bsky.social!‬ 👏🧠 @cogbooster.bsky.social

The Mind and Brain Lecture with Professor Stanislas Dehaene is today at 14:00! Join us at FPCE (main building) @ucoimbra.bsky.social or live on youtube.com/live/UbibdnD...! @proactionlab.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr @standehaene.bsky.social

Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares on their poster session at RPPW, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (CoEMMBB)! 🧠🎶 @cogbooster.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Russell Epstein @upenn.edu will be presenting "Cognitive maps, navigational strategies, and the human brain" at #SAW2025! 👉http://uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/ @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Great to share that Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares are presenting their research at #SysMus25, University of Oslo!👏🧠🎶 @sysmus.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social

Ramdani Oualid presented his work “Material Processing: Evidence for Perceptual Rather Than Action-Related Networks” during the scientific session of the Master's in Biomedical Engineering at @fctuc.bsky.social. 👏🧠

We welcomed final-year students from Pombal Secondary School to talk about psychological science and cognition. They also heard from Beatriz Janicas and Diâner Queiroz, who shared their journeys into cognitive neuroscience. We wish he best of luck to all the finalists! 🍀 @proactionlab.bsky.social

Jorge Almeida's opinion on the future of science in Portugal is out today in @publico.pt. 👏 @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social

Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒 Last week we visited the 9th grade classes at Colégio Bissaya Barreto for a fascinating talk on neuroscience and the unique traits of the teenage brain! 👩‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧠 @proactionlab.bsky.social

The new episode of the University of Coimbra’s series 'In Search of Answers' is out — and it's all about ContentMAP! 👏🧠 www.uc.pt/anossauc/a-p... @ucoimbra.bsky.social

🎯Save the Date! Also streaming live at youtube.com/@fpceuc/stre... @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social ‪@collegedefrance.bsky.social

Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... Please re-post.🧪🧠

We're at the Open Week of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social talking about cognitive neuroscience with high school students — a great way to celebrate National Scientist Day! Come and see what FPCE has to offer! @proactionlab.bsky.social

This week’s Journal Club explored how AI is reshaping neuroscience. 🧠🤖 The junior team discussed a study in which AI models recreated faces seen by participants using only their brain activity. @proactionlab.bsky.social

Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒 We started the week by talking cognitive neuroscience with 9th graders at Rainha Santa Isabel School! Our researcher, José Gomes, explored the concepts of selective attention and visual perception with fun and dynamic activities. @proactionlab.bsky.social

🚀 Proaction News | Interview with Jorge Almeida 👉 gulbenkian.pt/read-watch-l... @cogbooster.bsky.social @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social

Jorge Almeida presented a fascinating case on object-material processing difficulties at the 9th SINAPSES International Congress on Education, Psychology and Neurosciences. @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social

Our team participated in the 19th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, hosted at Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. An excellent opportunity to share, learn, and connect with other minds in the field! 🧠 @proactionlab.bsky.social

Jason Fischer presenting the work of the Dynamic Perception Lab to the @ucoimbra.bsky.social administration committee and executive coordinators. 👏🧠👀

We welcomed a group of Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students, eager to see what we do here! This visit was part of Meet-Lab, an initiative promoted by the Biology Students of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social. @cogbooster.bsky.social

"Pode a neuropsicologia ajudar-nos a compreender a mente humana? O caso do processamento de materiais associados a objectos." @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social no 3º Encontro Bienal da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuropsicologia. @cogbooster.bsky.social

In our joint lab meeting, Jason Fischer shared insights into the recent and ongoing projects of the Dynamic Perception Lab, exploring intuitive physics. 🧠👀

Meet the CogBooster Team! 🧠 Rebecca Lowndes, Post-Doctoral Researcher Main academic interest: object perception. proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt uc.pt/cogbooster/people/

Our first joint lab meeting started with Joana Carvalho's presentation on decoding directionality of information flow in cortical networks using layer-based connective field model, followed by a highly engaging discussion among the research team. 🧠

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Daniela Valério, Jorge Almeida, et al: Neural and behavioral similarity-driven tuning curves for manipulable objects doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Throwback to some highlights from the XIII Jornadas de Psicologia at @uaveiro.bsky.social: 👉workshop on neuroplasticity in sensory deficiency led by Zohar Tal; 👉 roundtable discussion on the reality of a research career in psychology in Portugal, featuring Diâner Queiroz. 📷NEP-AAUAv