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Valeria Centanino

@valeriacentanino.bsky.social
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Postdoc fellow investigating time processing in the human brain @timelab.bsky.social • PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience @SISSA • Neurobiologist @unipv 🌐 valecenta.github.io

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coming to #SFN26 this year? Interested in #Time and #Temporal_Processing? You're in luck! We've organized an exciting nanosymposium, bringing together experts across species, levels, models, to give an overview of Time in the brain. Check it out! www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21503...
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Happening today at #ECVP2026: Cansu will present her work on dynamic context-dependent recalibration of time perception. Check it out! ➡️ Poster T5PM11
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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Heading down to #VSS2026 tomorrow, our lab has three presentations to check out! Time dilation, compression, metacognition, texforms! It's all here!
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Imagine you're enjoying a jazz performance and the groove starts to shift subtly. How do you update your synchronisation? @duniagiomo.bsky.social et al. show that probabilistic associative learning may help us adapt when patterns lack strong rhythmic structure: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Modeling human synchronization to rhythmic patterns with varying statistical regularities
The ability to learn and adapt to new temporal regularities is pivotal to successfully interact with our environment. Research on rhythm processing ha…
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Our paper is now showcased on Kudos - read our story here: link.growkudos.com/1e4iy1r6oe8 @growkudos.bsky.social
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How the Human Brain Builds Our Sense of Time
We rarely think about it, but our brain is constantly measuring time on the scale of milliseconds. From being annoyed by a camera flash when someone takes a photo to following the rhythm of music, per...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/03/2026
How does the #brain support #perception of #duration? @valeriacentanino.bsky.social @gianfrancof.bsky.social @dbueti.bsky.social show that parietal, premotor & caudal SMA encode distinct durations, while frontal regions encode categorical, mean‑centered durations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4sObgRu
 Group-level distributions of duration preferences. Each violin plot shows the vertex-wise distribution of duration preferences at group level across streams (top) and ROIs (bottom). Streams and ROIs are ordered from occipital to frontal and from dorsal to ventral. Violins are color-coded according to functional streams: green for VV, blue for LV, violet for IPS, purple for IP, red for mot-som, brown for SMA, orange for PM, ochre for AI, yellow for IF. The left side of the violins (darker shades) represents the left hemisphere, while the right side (lighter shades) represents the right hemisphere. Dots indicate the median of each distribution, thick lines represent the interquartile range. The kernel density estimate of each distribution was computed using a 10% bandwidth.
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you’re curious to learn more about how we build our sense of time, without too many technicalities, here’s a nice read on our recent work! www.earth.com/news/how-the...
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How the human brain builds our sense of time
A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across different regions.
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
By modelling brain responses to brief visual stimuli, we define a functional hierarchy of time processing and perception: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... So very happy to see this work out in @plosbiology.org! Another great team effort with @gianfrancof.bsky.social and @dbueti.bsky.social
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Neuronal populations across the cortex underlie discrete, categorical, and subjective representations of visual durations
Duration perception involves multiple brain regions, but how unimodal tuning across this network supports subjective timing remains unclear. This study shows that parietal, premotor, and caudal SMA en...
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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our work exploring how we can resolve ambiguous visual inputs has now been accepted in Communications Psychology. Many thanks to the reviewers for their time and insights! Open-access link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Determinants of visual ambiguity resolution - Communications Psychology
Analyzing more than 100k human ratings, we show that ambiguity resolution relies on high-level visual features. After disambiguation, the visual system shifts from top-down processing to bottom-up mat...
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 19/01/2026
15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain). We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD. Apply: indibrain.eu
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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New preprint out from the lab! Using a brilliant behavioural setup and EEG modelling, Nicola Binetti and colleagues show that perceptual time is dynamically recalibrated through goal-directed action. Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #TRFpreprint
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Our holiday celebrations are especially happy this year, with a new paper out: "Global and Local Deviance Effects in the Processing of Temporal Patterns", about how we detect and keep track of temporal regularities. Congrats to @duniagiomo.bsky.social and the whole team!🎉 doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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Our experience of the world is inherently structured by temporal patterns. Yet a full understanding of how we process such patterns is still lacking. Across three finger-tapping experiments employing...
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Getting ready for #TRF4 in Tokyo! Our lab has several talks and posters coming up, come meet us!
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Check out the latest preprint from the lab! This work links neural tuning to durations with perception across the human cortex. Credits to @valeriacentanino.bsky.social, @gianfrancof.bsky.social, and @dbueti.bsky.social! #TRFpreprint
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
➡️ New preprint out! Together with @gianfrancof.bsky.social and @dbueti.bsky.social, we describe a cascade of neural response transformations behind our perception of millisecond time. #TRFpreprint
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Time Perception Lab @timelab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Come meet us at #VSS25! We're presenting three posters on Saturday afternoon, all about the neural basis of millisecond time perception. 1/4
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Marcus Daghlian @dagnsci.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Extremely proud to see our (@carlienroelofzen.bsky.social & myself) work published! Here we explore how the contrast sensitivity function can be measured, using fMRI! We are able to see effects of eccentricity and polar angle on CS doi.org/10.1162/imag... #VisionScience
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Modeling neural contrast sensitivity functions in human visual cortex
Abstract. The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) characterizes visual function, and is widely used in research on visual perception and ophthalmological disorders. The CSF describes the lowest contra...
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
We absolutely love "space acquires time", such a great and effective way to summarize our work! Big thanks @martinwiener.bsky.social for your constant support!
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Valeria Centanino @valeriacentanino.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Yay! Our dear SpaceChrono project is officially out! Check out our paper on how temporal and spatial processing are intertwined in the brain: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Credits to @gianfrancof.bsky.social and Domenica Bueti!
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The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy - Nature Communications
Common organizational principles of spatial and temporal information processing are not fully understood. This study shows that the duration coding of brief visual events transforms along the human co...
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