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Cognitive Neuroscience research lab focusing on perception & recognition of objects & actions at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒

We brought science — in the form of stories about the brain — to the children of Sargento Mor Elementary School.
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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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October 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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.

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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...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🚀 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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October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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📢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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October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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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October 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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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October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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François Osiurak on the social brain is now on! Come to the auditorium, we’re waiting for you! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Go, go poster presenters!
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September 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness!
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September 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium!
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September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now!
Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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📢 Save the Date!
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September 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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SAW2025 is in the news!
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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.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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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September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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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September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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!🧠
September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🧠👀 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/
September 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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! 🎯

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September 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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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September 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM