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CogBooster is an ERA CHAIR action that aims to implement a strong line of research in Cognitive Neuroscience at @ucoimbra.bsky.social 🧠 @ec.europa.eu

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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒 We brought science — in the form of stories about the brain — to the children of Sargento Mor Elementary School.
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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! @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Neuroscience Goes to School 🧠🎒 Patrícia Fernandes, from the Dynamic Perception Lab, visited Brasfemes Elementary School to talk about the brain with 1st–4th grade students.
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🚀 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
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The roundtable “From Training to Professional Practice: Challenges and Frontiers of Journalism” featured Mariana Coimbra, who shared her experience as a science communicator. @ucoimbra.bsky.social 📸 Francisco Soares de Oliveira
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📢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
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Eva Deligiannis @evadeligiannis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A fantastic meeting @ucoimbra.bsky.social for #SAW2025, including lots of opportunity for great extensive discussions. I hope to attend next year too! Big thanks to the organizers, speakers, and other trainees as well as @cogbooster.bsky.social
A picture of a woman standing in front of a scientific poster titled “Exploring neural responses in the human brain to real-world face size and distance”.
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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... @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Congratulations to Prof. Joana Carvalho for being one of the winners of the 2025 Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Fellowship! 👏 More info here: www.gwis.org/page/current...
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Current Fellowship Awardees - Graduate Women In Science
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This week, we welcomed Joshua Hartshorne from the MGH Institute of Health Professions for a talk entitled “Why don’t adults learn grammar as easily as children?”. 🧠
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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! 🧠👀 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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 · 27/09/2025
Go, go poster presenters! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness! #SAW2025
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wim Vanduffel is on. What a fantastic end to a fantastic first day. Looking forward to more cognitive neuroscience tomorrow! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Share your pictures with us by tagging us! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now! Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities. @jlugiessen.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Time for the #SAW2025 coffee break and poster session at the cloisters. Please join us! @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great start to #SAW2025 with Marlene Behrmann! @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🧠👀Dear #SAW2025 community, we’re excited to welcome you today at 17:00 at FPCEUC for the Welcome Reception! Can’t wait to see you all! 🙌 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We welcomed Freek van Ede from the Proactive Brain Lab, VU Amsterdam, for a talk on "Working memory: seeing now and acting later. Insights from EEG and Eye-Tracking". @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📢 Save the Date! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
SAW2025 is in the news! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social noticias.uc.pt/artigos/futu...
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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 · 19/09/2025
🔍 🧠 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
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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 · 15/09/2025
🧠👀 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 · 12/09/2025
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 · 11/09/2025
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. 💡 @proactionlab.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Meet the CogBooster Team! 🧠🌍 Azizeh Akbari, Research Assistant Main academic interests: Cognitive Neuroscience • Neuroimaging • Machine Learning 👉http://uc.pt/cogbooster/people @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Prof. Jason Fischer at #ECVP2025! It was an inspiring opportunity to connect with fellow researchers, exchange ideas, and explore the latest developments in visual perception. 🧠👀 @ecvp.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 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...
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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 · 26/08/2025
🎯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/ @proactionlab.bsky.social
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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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... )
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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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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Running some fMRI experiments on how the human brain recognizes and processes information on actions — with Lénia Amaral. 🧠 @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🎯Abstract submission by July 31! Additional information and guidelines can be found at uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Joana Carvalho, alongside Jorge Almeida and Zohar Tal, joins IndiBrain, an #MSCActions Doctoral Network led by Frans Cornelissen (UMCG, NL)! The team will host PhD students to study what makes each brain unique. Congrats! 👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Lénia Amaral presented her work at the ‪@imrf.bsky.social! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time” reflects her postdoctoral work with @striemamit.bsky.social at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University. @durham-university.bsky.social
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International Multisensory Research Forum @imrf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Abstract submission by July 31! 👇 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Wim Vanduffel @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social will be presenting "Mesoscale Functional Organization of the Macaque Cortex" at #SAW2025! Abstract submission by July 31 👇 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Meet the CogBooster Team! 🧠 Hoda Taghilou, Post-Doctoral Researcher Main academic interests: Cognitive neuroscience, time perception, visual neuroscience. uc.pt/cogbooster/people/
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Marco Tamietto from the University of Torino, Italy, will be presenting "Vision without awareness: from multiple pathways to global brain reorganisation" at #SAW2025! Abstract submission by July 31 👇 uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/ @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A huge thank you to @standehaene.bsky.social for the fantastic talk last Friday! Truly inspiring! It was an honor to have you with us at the @ucoimbra.bsky.social. @proactionlab.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
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