BabyLab CIMeC
@cimecbabylab.bsky.social
The CIMeC BabyLab of the University of Trento studies cognitive development in infants using neuroscience and behavioral methods.
https://r1.unitn.it/babylab/
https://r1.unitn.it/babylab/
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WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data
Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...
doi.org
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
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By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
A few days ago, @eugenioparise.bsky.social was at Medea BabyLab (IRCCS Medea, LC, Italy) to lead a hands-on tutorial on infant EEG analysis using our #WTools toolbox.
A great opportunity to share expertise and connect with researchers studying brain development in the first years of life! 🧠👶
A great opportunity to share expertise and connect with researchers studying brain development in the first years of life! 🧠👶
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A few days ago, @eugenioparise.bsky.social was at Medea BabyLab (IRCCS Medea, LC, Italy) to lead a hands-on tutorial on infant EEG analysis using our #WTools toolbox.
A great opportunity to share expertise and connect with researchers studying brain development in the first years of life! 🧠👶
A great opportunity to share expertise and connect with researchers studying brain development in the first years of life! 🧠👶
...and, over the summer, we also attended the Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution (COGEVO), a unique forum for researchers interested in ethology, development, comparative psychology and neuroscience! 🧠 👶 🧪
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
...and, over the summer, we also attended the Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution (COGEVO), a unique forum for researchers interested in ethology, development, comparative psychology and neuroscience! 🧠 👶 🧪
Last week @eugenioparise.bsky.social attended the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD). A great occasion to catch up with friends and share the science of our BabyLab!
September 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Last week @eugenioparise.bsky.social attended the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD). A great occasion to catch up with friends and share the science of our BabyLab!
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Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Volatility-driven learning in human infants
Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.
www.science.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's a busy conference season for the lab 🔥 We just got back from #DUCOG2025, where we shared some of your ongoing work. It was four intense days of science, networking, and inspiring ideas about how children, adults, and animals understand themselves and others! 🧠👶🧪
June 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's a busy conference season for the lab 🔥 We just got back from #DUCOG2025, where we shared some of your ongoing work. It was four intense days of science, networking, and inspiring ideas about how children, adults, and animals understand themselves and others! 🧠👶🧪
A few weeks ago, our lab attended #CAOS2025 at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. We really enjoyed the talks and had a great time sharing our work during the poster sessions!
May 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
A few weeks ago, our lab attended #CAOS2025 at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. We really enjoyed the talks and had a great time sharing our work during the poster sessions!
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data
Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...
doi.org
May 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
Come do a PhD in Neuroscience at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Cutting-edge research in a supportive and friendly environment, in beautiful Trentino Alto-Adige (quality of life is top!)
Applications are now OPEN for 15 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy!
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior
ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior
ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences
May 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Come do a PhD in Neuroscience at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social! Cutting-edge research in a supportive and friendly environment, in beautiful Trentino Alto-Adige (quality of life is top!)
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We're looking for a PhD student interested in developing brains and developing new methods to study them! Anna Kowalczyk and myself have a fully funded PhD position to advance OPM-MEG methods for infant and neonatal brain imaging. 👉 Please repost to help us spread the word 🙏 More info & links 👇
April 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We're looking for a PhD student interested in developing brains and developing new methods to study them! Anna Kowalczyk and myself have a fully funded PhD position to advance OPM-MEG methods for infant and neonatal brain imaging. 👉 Please repost to help us spread the word 🙏 More info & links 👇
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📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain.
Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain.
Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
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@sarahjessen.bsky.social of the Babylab @uniluebeck.bsky.social took Martin Orf and me from the @jonasobleser.bsky.social lab along an intriguing journey into the neural fate and consequences of a mother‘s voice in her infant’s brain. Under review now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@sarahjessen.bsky.social of the Babylab @uniluebeck.bsky.social took Martin Orf and me from the @jonasobleser.bsky.social lab along an intriguing journey into the neural fate and consequences of a mother‘s voice in her infant’s brain. Under review now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New paper published in Human Nature: Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness ⚖️ in Human Infants ! With Luca Surian and Alessandra Geraci 😊
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Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants
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April 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New paper published in Human Nature: Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness ⚖️ in Human Infants ! With Luca Surian and Alessandra Geraci 😊
rdcu.be/egamh
rdcu.be/egamh
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Interested in infant cognitive development? Here is an interview (in Italian) about "Piccolamente" (English: Littlemind), the new book 📕 for parents and curious people by Stefania Benetti and myself 😊
www.nostrofiglio.it/neonato/cura...
www.nostrofiglio.it/neonato/cura...
stimolare lo sviluppo cerebrale del neonato - Nostrofiglio.it
Come stimolare lo sviluppo cerebrale del neonato? Quando riconosce i volti? A queste e ad altre domande hanno risposto i ricercatori.
www.nostrofiglio.it
April 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interested in infant cognitive development? Here is an interview (in Italian) about "Piccolamente" (English: Littlemind), the new book 📕 for parents and curious people by Stefania Benetti and myself 😊
www.nostrofiglio.it/neonato/cura...
www.nostrofiglio.it/neonato/cura...
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Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social
Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life
Infants are sensitive to their own respiration and heartbeat already in the first two years of life.
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Do babies sense their own body rhythms? Our new paper on 🫀 & 🫁 interoception in 👶 is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at led by @markustuente.bsky.social
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📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky!
From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!
🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it
#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!
🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it
#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
March 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky!
From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!
🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it
#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!
🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it
#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
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Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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It's CAOS time! Join us in beautiful Rovereto with a fantastic lineup of speakers: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's CAOS time! Join us in beautiful Rovereto with a fantastic lineup of speakers: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pierre Corvilain, Julie Bertels, et al:
Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pierre Corvilain, Julie Bertels, et al:
Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
New preprint by lab members @giuliamz.bsky.social and @ambrafer.bsky.social on how prior expectations guide multisensory integration in face-to-face communication. This work raises fascinating questions about the evolutionary, developmental and cultural origins of these priors.
PREPRINT: In face-to-face communication, we have a stronger prior tendency to bind vocal and bodily signals that share the same function, such as signalling the intention to communicate.
Work started while at @mpi-nl.bsky.social w/ CIMeC (University of Trento)
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #academicsky
See 🧵👇
Work started while at @mpi-nl.bsky.social w/ CIMeC (University of Trento)
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #academicsky
See 🧵👇
February 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New preprint by lab members @giuliamz.bsky.social and @ambrafer.bsky.social on how prior expectations guide multisensory integration in face-to-face communication. This work raises fascinating questions about the evolutionary, developmental and cultural origins of these priors.
Reposted by BabyLab CIMeC
Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
February 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Looking forward to bcccd.org in Budapest this week! You can meet our lab members @eugenioparise.bsky.social @ambrafer.bsky.social @giuliamz.bsky.social @aliceguerrini.bsky.social 🧠🧪👶
BCCCD 2025 :: Welcome
BCCCD25<br>Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
bcccd.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Looking forward to bcccd.org in Budapest this week! You can meet our lab members @eugenioparise.bsky.social @ambrafer.bsky.social @giuliamz.bsky.social @aliceguerrini.bsky.social 🧠🧪👶
There are still spots available on this cog dev neuro list! Let us know if you'd like to be added :)
Dear community, here is a starter pack for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Please share it and feel free to send suggestions about people, labs etc. go.bsky.app/2WCr1TK
December 24, 2024 at 11:20 AM
There are still spots available on this cog dev neuro list! Let us know if you'd like to be added :)
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A new preprint with @ambrafer.bsky.social, Luca Filippin and @marcobuiatti.bsky.social: a very user friendly Matlab based toolbox for wavelet analysis of the (infant) EEG:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Give it a try!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Give it a try!
WTools: a MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis
Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 AM
A new preprint with @ambrafer.bsky.social, Luca Filippin and @marcobuiatti.bsky.social: a very user friendly Matlab based toolbox for wavelet analysis of the (infant) EEG:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Give it a try!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Give it a try!
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Finally out! A new paper on categorisation in preverbal infants, together with wonderful
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The nature of label-induced categories: preverbal infants represent surface features and category symbols | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans categorize objects not only based on perceptual features (e.g. red, rounded),
but also function (e.g. used to transport people). Category membership can be communicated
via labelling (e.g. ‘app...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Finally out! A new paper on categorisation in preverbal infants, together with wonderful
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Hey friends, is there a starter pack for developmental cognitive #neuroscience? 🧠 👶
December 5, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Hey friends, is there a starter pack for developmental cognitive #neuroscience? 🧠 👶