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/
A carousel of photographs showing student ambassadors for UniTrento’s Master’s Degrees Open Days. The visual provides information about the Open Day for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive Science at CIMeC, which will take place on 16 April 2026 at 10 am. Location Piazza Manifattura 1 Building 10 Rovereto.
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
View of Rovereto in Italy for the CAOs 2026 workshop on Functional and Neural Perspectives. Registration is open until 20 April 2026. The event will take place from 6 to 8 May 2026.
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
2/2 🔬 Uno studio su PNAS collega maggiore svantaggio sociale a differenze nella materia bianca, la rete di connessioni del cervello.
📖 Approfondimento di 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗼 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social su Lucy sui Mondi:
🔗 lucysuimondi.com/le-disuguagl...
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
2/2 Using recent AI models (as tool + model) with human neuroimaging (fMRI & MEG), the talk argues the brain forms predictions about latent causes and uses them to disambiguate sensory input.
Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/104/...
@predictivebrain.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.
3/3 Includes: MRI+segmentation for modeling & EEG source reconstruction; EEG (no TMS) to validate the oscillation + phase-targeting accuracy; and the main phase-coupled real-time EEG-TMS experiment. + ~4GB scripts/software/dataset.
ℹ️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #brainoscillations
2/3 Brain responsiveness + stimulation-induced plasticity depend on ongoing oscillatory states. This step-by-step protocol shows how to run real-time EEG-TMS and deliver TMS pulses with millisecond precision, synchronized to target states (e.g., oscillation phase).
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.
3/3 The team proposes an anatomy-guided workflow to choose montage + electrode geometry, boosting reproducibility and personalization, hoping to help to shift from “does it work?” to “for whom, under which conditions, and with what delivered dose?”
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
2/3 Based on HCP-Aging data (n=590), the study shows that “one-size-fits-all” tDCS montages in working memory studies yield very different E-fields, often extending beyond the DLPFC. Fields frequently reach executive & default mode networks; variability is linked to gyrification & skull/CSF anatomy
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. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
