Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒 We brought science — in the form of stories about the brain — to the children of Sargento Mor Elementary School. 031
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025We 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 021
Reposted by Proaction LabUniversidade de Coimbra @ucoimbra.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Sabia 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. #UCoimbra @proactionlab.bsky.social #ERCStGnoticias.uc.ptEstudo revela que o cérebro cria “mapas” para organizar informação sobre objetos utilizados no dia a diaA 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... 131
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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The 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 011
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 031
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025For 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 021
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Joana 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 010
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Such 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 021
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Last talk of the #SAW2025 with Cristina Becchio! @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025François Osiurak on the social brain is now on! Come to the auditorium, we’re waiting for you! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Go, go poster presenters! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Starting the day with Marco Tamietto's talk on vision without awareness! #SAW2025 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Share your pictures with us by tagging us! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Talk session with Russell Epstein is running now! Come down to the auditorium! #SAW2025 @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The second keynote of #SAW2025 is on now! Katja Doerschner on exploring and perceiving material qualities. @jlugiessen.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025📢 Save the Date! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Congratulations 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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025SAW2025 is in the news! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @proactionlab.bsky.social noticias.uc.pt/artigos/futu...noticias.uc.ptFuturo da investigação em neurociência cognitiva em debate esta semana na Universidade de CoimbraA 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. 011
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 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Joana 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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Luca 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!🧠 032
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @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/ 021
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Final 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... 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Today, 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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @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...nature.comNeural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals - Nature CommunicationsIn 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 ... 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabElla Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Excited 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... )pnas.orgAction-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNASHow are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a... 12714
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Here 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 021
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Congratulations 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! 👏 010
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Wishing 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! 👏 020
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 28/07/2025🎯Abstract submission by July 31! Additional information and guidelines can be found at uc.pt/cogbooster/s... 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Joana 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 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Congrats 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 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Lénia 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 043
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Abstract submission by July 31! 👇 www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Meet 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 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares for their poster presentation at @assc28.bsky.social! 👏🧠 @cogbooster.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The Mind and Brain Lecture with Professor Stanislas Dehaene is today at 14:00! Join us at FPCE (main building) @ucoimbra.bsky.social or live on youtube.com/live/UbibdnD...! @proactionlab.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr @standehaene.bsky.social 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Congrats 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 021
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Russell Epstein @upenn.edu will be presenting "Cognitive maps, navigational strategies, and the human brain" at #SAW2025! 👉http://uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/ @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Great to share that Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares are presenting their research at #SysMus25, University of Oslo!👏🧠🎶 @sysmus.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.social 052
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Ramdani 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. 👏🧠 010
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 04/06/2025We welcomed final-year students from Pombal Secondary School to talk about psychological science and cognition. They also heard from Beatriz Janicas and Diâner Queiroz, who shared their journeys into cognitive neuroscience. We wish he best of luck to all the finalists! 🍀 @proactionlab.bsky.social 031
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Jorge Almeida's opinion on the future of science in Portugal is out today in @publico.pt. 👏 @jalmeidacogneuro.bsky.social @cogbooster.bsky.socialpublico.ptCrime na ciência portuguesa: nem Agatha Christie inventaria algo tão perfeitoDentro da trapalhada que foi o último concurso para projetos científicos em todos os domínios científicos, temos ciência fundamental a ser barrada. Estamos a destruir o futuro da ciência em Portugal. 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Neuroscience goes to School 🧠🎒 Last week we visited the 9th grade classes at Colégio Bissaya Barreto for a fascinating talk on neuroscience and the unique traits of the teenage brain! 👩🦰🧑🦰🧠 @proactionlab.bsky.social 011
Proaction Lab @proactionlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The new episode of the University of Coimbra’s series 'In Search of Answers' is out — and it's all about ContentMAP! 👏🧠 www.uc.pt/anossauc/a-p... @ucoimbra.bsky.socialuc.ptEpisódio #6 | ContentMAP: desvendar os mistérios do cérebro a partir do reconhecimento de objetos de uso quotidianoFinanciado com 1,8 milhões de euros, o projeto de investigação “ContentMAP” procurou desvendar como o cérebro recolhe, processa e armazena informação que permite que sejamos capazes de reconhecer rapi... 011
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 21/05/2025🎯Save the Date! Also streaming live at youtube.com/@fpceuc/stre... @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social @collegedefrance.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Proaction LabMel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... Please re-post.🧪🧠 0199
Reposted by Proaction LabCogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 16/05/2025We're at the Open Week of the @ucoimbra.bsky.social talking about cognitive neuroscience with high school students — a great way to celebrate National Scientist Day! Come and see what FPCE has to offer! @proactionlab.bsky.social 011