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Proaction Lab
@proactionlab.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience research lab focusing on perception & recognition of objects & actions at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social
Head: @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social
proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt
🚀 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. 🧠
#UCBusiness @cogbooster.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢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...

@jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
@cogbooster.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🔍 🧠 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)
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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. 🧠👂
@cogbooster.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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!👏
@cogbooster.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social #icmpc18
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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! 👏
July 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Wishing all the best to @andre-peres.bsky.social on his new role as a professor at BIOME (UFRN) with the ObjectColumns project!
The project explores how the human brain processes visual information to improve AI algorithms, and it's funded by Conhecimento Brasil.
Well done! 👏
July 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Congrats to Zohar Tal on the FCT funding for the project “CrossToPlasticity”! 🎉
The study explores auditory cortex organization in congenitally deaf individuals using fMRI and behavioral analysis, aiming to advance cochlear implant development. 🧠👂
@cogbooster.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares for their poster presentation at @assc28.bsky.social!‬ 👏🧠
@cogbooster.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares on their poster session at RPPW, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (CoEMMBB)! 🧠🎶
@cogbooster.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Great to share that Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares are presenting their research at #SysMus25, University of Oslo!👏🧠🎶
@sysmus.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ramdani Oualid presented his work “Material Processing: Evidence for Perceptual Rather Than Action-Related Networks” during the scientific session of the Master's in Biomedical Engineering at
@fctuc.bsky.social. 👏🧠
June 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Jorge Almeida presented a fascinating case on object-material processing difficulties at the 9th SINAPSES International Congress on Education, Psychology and Neurosciences.
@jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We welcomed a group of Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students, eager to see what we do here!

This visit was part of Meet-Lab, an initiative promoted by the Biology Students of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social.
@cogbooster.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Pode a neuropsicologia ajudar-nos a compreender a mente humana? O caso do processamento de materiais
associados a objectos."

@jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social no 3º Encontro Bienal da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuropsicologia.
@cogbooster.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Throwback to some highlights from the XIII Jornadas de Psicologia at @uaveiro.bsky.social:
👉workshop on neuroplasticity in sensory deficiency led by Zohar Tal;
👉 roundtable discussion on the reality of a research career in psychology in Portugal, featuring Diâner Queiroz.
📷NEP-AAUAv
March 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM