Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒

We brought science — in the form of stories about the brain — to the children of Sargento Mor Elementary School.

We welcomed a very curious and enthusiastic group of 11th and 12th-grade students from St. Peter's International School, who visited our labs to learn more about cognitive neuroscience!
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Estudo revela que o cérebro cria “mapas” para organizar informação sobre objetos utilizados no dia a dia A investigação, liderada pela Universidade de Coimbra, demonstra que o cérebro humano organiza a informação em mapas topográficos contínuos, fornecendo, assim, leituras fáceis de uma região cerebral p...

Sabia que o cérebro humano organiza a informação em mapas topográficos contínuos?
Um estudo, coordenado pela @ucoimbra.bsky.social, introduz um novo conceito de mapas e mostra como diferentes categorias de informação se organizam espacialmente no cérebro.

#UCoimbra @proactionlab.bsky.social #ERCStG

🚀 We participated in the INOVAÇÃO@UC 2025 tech showcase — a vibrant mosaic of innovation of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn more about the science of looking inside the brain and mind. 🧠
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The roundtable “From Training to Professional Practice: Challenges and Frontiers of Journalism” featured Mariana Coimbra, who shared her experience as a science communicator.
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📸 Francisco Soares de Oliveira

📢Exciting results📢

New study reveals topographic maps for object-related information: what we call Contentopic Maps🗺️!

More information here:
proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt/en/news-entr...

Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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For this week’s Journal Club, Pedro Palhares shared the findings of his latest study, “TMS-EEG reveals causal dynamics of the premotor cortex during musical improvisation”. 🧠💡

The article is currently in preprint and available here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares participated in the seminar “Music as an Interdiscipline” at CEIS20, bringing together the music research community of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social.
📸 Ana Margarida Cardoso | MusicAnalytica Project | CEIS20
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Such inspiring days at #SAW2025!

Thank you to our amazing speakers, scientific committee, staff, sponsors Hospital da Luz Coimbra and ANT Neuro,
and all the attendees who joined us at the Universidade de Coimbra for an exciting event in cognitive neuroscience! 🧠👀
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Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social

François Osiurak on the social brain is now on! Come to the auditorium, we’re waiting for you! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social

Go, go poster presenters!
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Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness!
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Share your pictures with us by tagging us!
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Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium!
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The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now!
Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities.
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📢 Save the Date!
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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!
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Futuro da investigação em neurociência cognitiva em debate esta semana na Universidade de Coimbra A terceira edição do “Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives” vai decorrer esta semana, de 25 a 27 de setembro, na Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação.

SAW2025 is in the news!
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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)
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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. 🧠👂
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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. 💡
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Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals - Nature Communications In blind individuals, language processing activates the brain visual areas. Here, researchers show that these activations might primarily reflect physical parameters of objects and actions, retrieved ...

🚨 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/
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Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

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!👏
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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! 👏