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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 20h

2/2🧵 Article: Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data

Authors: Simon, Loffing & Frasnelli (Royal Society Open Science, 2025)

ⓘ doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

#sportsanalytics

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 20h

1/2🧵 Ranking-based analysis: left-handers are overrepresented across tiers, and especially at the top, in fencing & table tennis.

While the classic "rare style" advantage helps explain this, other factors may also be at play.

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 6d

Join us for the workshop “From neural variability to personalised interventions: a real-time brain-state TMS-EEG approach” 🧠

🗓 Oct 23, 2025 | 13:00-16:30
📍 CIMeC Conference Room, Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto

More info 🔗 shorturl.at/tdcFL

@carlominiussi.bsky.social

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 8d

🏆 Poster awards at #MAPS2025 go to Anna Pasini and Andreja Stajduhar. Congratulations!

🙌 A special thanks to all participants for making #MAPS2025 such an engaging symposium, and to Velux Stiftung, Acustica Trentina, LevelUpTrento, and Cassa Centrale Banca for their support of the event.

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 8d

🙏 Huge thanks to our invited speakers for inspiring talks and discussions: Stephen Fleming, Evan F. Risko, Ophelia Deroy, Erika Borella, Daniel Yon, Ingrid Johnsrude, and Jonas Obleser. Your insights made #MAPS2025 special.

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 8d

📸 A recap collage capturing the spirit of the #MAPS2025 Metacognition, Aging & Perception Symposium, held on Sept 23-24 at Piazza della Manifattura, Rovereto, Italy.

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 16d

@annabavaresco.bsky.social and
@tlmnhut.bsky.social show: supervised pruning of a DNN’s feature space better aligns with human category representations, selects distinct subspaces for different categories, and more accurately predicts people’s preferences for GenAI images.
doi.org/10.1145/3768...

Modeling Human Concepts with Subspaces in Deep Vision Models | ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Improving the modeling of human representations of everyday semantic categories, such as animals or food, can lead to better alignment between AI systems and humans. Humans are thought to represent su...

doi.org

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Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social · 14d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication

Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇

Binding problem in face-to-face communication

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 15d

New article “Disentangling Metabolic & Neurovascular Timescales Supporting Cognitive Processes” by CIMeC_UniTrento in collaboration with leading partner institutes
Congrats F.Saviola, S. Tambalo, L. Beghini, A. Ferrari, B. Cassone, D. Van De Ville, J. Jovicich!
#PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506513122

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 16d

🦉🧠 #NotteDellaRicerca: Stand 48 “Il Cervello Predittivo”, con @moritzwurm.bsky.social.

📍 MUSE Trento, piano +3
📅 26/9, dalle 17 alle 24
👉 nottedellaricerca.tn.it

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 16d

🔢 Il @cimecunitrento.bsky.social alla #NotteDellaRicerca 2025!
Stand 49 “Dove nascono i numeri”, Piano +3
Un viaggio neuroscientifico dai pulcini ai matematici, con Elena Eccher.

📍 MUSE Trento
📅 26/9, dalle 17 alle 24
👉 Programma completo: nottedellaricerca.tn.it

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 21d

🧠 New article in Cognition: The development of probabilistic reasoning during early childhood by Placì and CIMeC researchers Pighin, Mastropasqua & Tentori.

How early do children grasp probabilities?
Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106283

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 22d

🦉The "Notte della Ricerca" is back on September 26, 2025, and @cimecunitrento.bsky.social will be there!

Discover science like you’ve never seen it before: events, challenges, and innovations that bring research to life.

👉 Check out the full program: nottedellaricerca.tn.it
@moritzwurm.bsky.social

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 4

#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy

@szymanikjakub.bsky.social

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧠 Evan F. Risko at #MAPS2025
🗓️ Sept 23 | 16:45 - 18:00
Talk "Cognitive Offloading: Adventures in Distributing Cognition"

Explore how we use tools & tech to reduce cognitive effort!

🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

#cognitivescience

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎙️ Ingrid Johnsrude at #MAPS2025
🗓️ Sept 23 | 14:30 -15:45
What is effortful listening and why does it matter, especially as we age?

Explore how noise affects cognition and perception.

🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

#cognitivescience #aging @ingridjohnsrude.bsky.social

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 Iscrizioni aperte per la conferenza “Mai smettere di ascoltare” su invecchiamento e disturbi uditivi.

📅 26/09/25, ore 9:30
📍 Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto
🎟 Posti limitati

🔗 eventi.unitn.it/it/mai-smett...
#MAPS2025 #udito

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎙️ Ophelia Deroy at #MAPS2025
🗓️ Sept 23 | 11:45 - 13:00
Talk: Metacognition across senses and social contexts

How does social context shape self-awareness, and how does this evolve with age?

🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧠 Stephen Fleming at #MAPS2025
📅 Sept 23 | 9:30 - 10:45
Talk: Post-decisional processing & self-reflective computation

Explore how metacognition shapes learning, belief, and awareness.
🔗 Register by Sept 4: event.unitn.it/maps2025

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Aug 19

New paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews by Prof. Carlo Miniussi & Marta Bortoletto explores how neural variability can enhance brain stimulation strategies.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106312

@carlominiussi.bsky.social

#NIBS #cimec_unitrento

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orsolars.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠

Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species

Very fond of the neurobiology part :)

📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

Numerical cognition in birds

Nature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and...

rdcu.be

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Jul 29

#MAPS2025: Registration extended to 4 Sept!

🧠 Join us in Rovereto (Italy) on Sept 23-24 to explore metacognition, aging & perception.

🎙️ Top speakers, poster sessions, networking, and much more.

🔗 More info: event.unitn.it/maps2025

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Jul 22

CIMeC Città 2025: ChatGPT e l’intelligenza artificiale generativa

📅 Oggi, 22 luglio, ore 21.00
📍 Giardino di Palazzo Fedrigotti

Si chiude l’edizione 2025 con 𝗣𝗮𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗮: un viaggio tra linguaggio, immagini e apprendimento.

🔗 shorturl.at/QfkRW

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Jul 18

✨ We’re honored to have hosted the following speakers: Konstantin Anokhin, Björn Brembs, Nicola S. Clayton, Simon Laughlin, Elizabeth Spelke, and Anastasia Krasheninnikova! #CogEvo2025

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Jul 18

A photo recap of CogEvo 2025 #Rovereto: three days of science and exchange across cognition, #neuroscience, development, and evolution.

🙌 Thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, sponsors, and attendees who took part in this edition!

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