
Proaction Lab
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Cognitive Neuroscience research lab focusing on perception & recognition of objects & actions @UnivdeCoimbra
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The Mind and Brain Lecture with Professor Stanislas Dehaene is today at 14:00! Join us at FPCEUC (main building) or live on youtube.com/live/UbibdnDCV…. Proaction Lab Universidade de Coimbra


Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Marco Tamietto Università di Torino will be presenting "Vision without awareness: from multiple pathways to global brain reorganisation" at #SAW2025! Abstract submission by July 31 👇uc.pt/cogbooster/saw… Proaction Lab Universidade de Coimbra FPCEUC


Congrats to Joana Sayal and Pedro Palhares for their poster presentation at The 28th Annual Meeting of the ASSC! 👏🧠 FPCEUC CogBooster


Meet the Speakers 👀🧠 Wim Vanduffel KU Leuven will be presenting "Mesoscale Functional Organization of the Macaque Cortex" at #SAW2025! Abstract submission by July 31 👇 uc.pt/cogbooster/saw… Proaction Lab Universidade de Coimbra FPCEUC



Lénia Amaral presented her work at the International Multisensory Research Forum! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time”, reflects her postdoc work with Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University. Durham University #IMRF2025 Lénia Amaral (@lenia-amaral.bsky.social)


Congrats to Zohar Tal on the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 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


Joana Carvalho, alongside Jorge Almeida and Zohar Tal, joins IndiBrain, an MSCA Doctoral Network led by Frans Cornelissen (UMCG, NL)! The team will host PhD students to study what makes each brain unique. Congrats! 👏 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Campus Groningen Joana Carvalho Universidade de Coimbra


🎯Abstract submission by July 31! Additional information and guidelines can be found at uc.pt/cogbooster/saw… Proaction Lab Universidade de Coimbra


Wishing all the best to André Peres in his new role as a professor at BioME UFRN with the ObjectColumns project! The project explores how the human brain processes visual info to improve AI algorithms and it's funded by Conhecimento Brasil. Well done! 👏


Congratulations to researcher Roberto dos Santos on completing his Master’s in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience at FMUC - Faculdade de Medicina da U Coimbra! His thesis, on ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, was supervised by André Peres and Maria Ribeiro. Excellent work! 👏 CIBIT CogBooster


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 FPCEUC #icmpc18


Running some fMRI experiments on how the human brain recognizes and processes information on actions — with @AmaralLenia. 🧠 Proaction Lab FPCEUC Universidade de Coimbra



🎯Registration deadline August 31! Already excited for the SAW - Seeing and Acting Workshop taking place at Universidade de Coimbra ? 🤩 Do join us! 👉uc.pt/cogbooster/saw… FPCEUC Proaction Lab


🚨 New paper in Nature Communications 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. 📄 full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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. 💡 Proaction Lab



🧠👀 SAW - Seeing and Acting Workshop 📆September 25-27, 2025 Join us at the Universidade de Coimbra for two days of inspiring talks and discussions on the brain, mind, perception, and action! 🔗 uc.pt/cogbooster/saw… FPCEUC Proaction Lab


Luca Serrière, José Gomes, and Xingnan Zhao are at @cambridge_uni for #COGNESTIC 2025, an immersive training at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit to boost skills in cognitive neuroimaging! 🧠 Proaction Lab
