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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Neuroscience Goes to School 🧠🎒

Patrícia Fernandes, from the Dynamic Perception Lab, visited Brasfemes Elementary School to talk about the brain with 1st–4th grade students.

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

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A picture of a woman standing in front of a scientific poster titled “Exploring neural responses in the human brain to real-world face size and distance”.

A fantastic meeting @ucoimbra.bsky.social for #SAW2025, including lots of opportunity for great extensive discussions. I hope to attend next year too! Big thanks to the organizers, speakers, and other trainees as well as @cogbooster.bsky.social

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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Congratulations to Prof. Joana Carvalho for being one of the winners of the 2025 Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Fellowship! 👏
More info here:
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This week, we welcomed Joshua Hartshorne from the MGH Institute of Health Professions for a talk entitled “Why don’t adults learn grammar as easily as children?”. 🧠

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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Wim Vanduffel is on. What a fantastic end to a fantastic first day. Looking forward to more cognitive neuroscience tomorrow!
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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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Time for the #SAW2025 coffee break and poster session at the cloisters. Please join us!
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Great start to #SAW2025 with Marlene Behrmann!
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🧠👀Dear #SAW2025 community, we’re excited to welcome you today at 17:00 at FPCEUC for the Welcome Reception!
Can’t wait to see you all! 🙌
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We welcomed Freek van Ede from the Proactive Brain Lab, VU Amsterdam, for a talk on "Working memory: seeing now and acting later. Insights from EEG and Eye-Tracking".
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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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🔍 🧠 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!🧠