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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 1d

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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 7d

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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 11d

Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 11d

François Osiurak on the social brain is now on! Come to the auditorium, we’re waiting for you! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 11d

Go, go poster presenters!
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 11d

Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness!
#SAW2025

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 12d

Share your pictures with us by tagging us!
#SAW2025
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 12d

Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium!
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 12d

The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now!
Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities.
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Save the Date!
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 15d

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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 16d

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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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 19d

🔍 🧠 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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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 20d

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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 22d

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!🧠

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23d

🧠👀 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/

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26d

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! 🎯

www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27d

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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 New paper in @natcomms.nature.com

Exciting study from a Polish research team led by Łukasz Bola (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences), in collaboration with Alfonso Caramazza, ERA Chair holder at @cogbooster.bsky.social .

📄 full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals - Nature Communications

In blind individuals, language processing activates the brain visual areas. Here, researchers show that these activations might primarily reflect physical parameters of objects and actions, retrieved ...

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · Aug 26

🎯Registration deadline August 31!

Already excited for the SAW - Seeing and Acting Workshop taking place at @ucoimbra.bsky.social? 🤩

Do join us!
👉https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/
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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS

How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · Jul 29

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!👏
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · Jul 28

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! 👏

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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · Jul 28

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! 👏

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎯Abstract submission by July 31!

Additional information and guidelines can be found at
uc.pt/cogbooster/s...

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