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Vision | Visually Impaired | Multisensory | Perception | Development | Rehabilitation technologies
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๐ Final OptiVisT ITN Consortium Meeting๐ Last week Monica Gori and Kurt A. Burak participated in the final OptiVisT consortium meeting in Amsterdam. It was a special occasion, filled with insightful discussions and collaborations. IIT Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) IITalk_projects



Interested in studying Psychology at Birkbeck? ๐ง ๐ Join us on 12th December at 12pm to hear all about our undergraduate psychology programmes! We canโt wait to meet you and answer your questions! #Birkbeck #Psychology Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, Faculty of Science

๐จ PhD position alert! ๐จ I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at UvA Amsterdam. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Poโฆ

The aim of this current study was to evaluate objectively measured #circadian rhythms using salivary melatonin following one week of at-home sleep extension in habitually short sleeping #adolescents. ow.ly/Ouum50UjtUB #sleep SLEEP and SLEEP Advances



๐๏ธ๐ Do Blind People 'See' Images in Their Dreams? This publication from Life's Little #Mysteries dives into this intriguing question, with sources partially provided by Monica and Helene interviewed by Charles Q. Choi ๐ for Live Science livescience.com/health/dreams/โฆ IITalk_projects

New SPECIAL ISSUE on Multisensory Perception of the Body and Its Movement mdpi.com/si/216930 #mdpibrainsci via Brain Sciences MDPI IIT Silvia Lara Coelho #body #movement #multisensory #perception

๐ Congrats to Gloria Calafatello! ๐ Our PhD student received an Experimental Psychology Society grant for her research visit at the University of Birmingham, during which she will explore the sensory systems development in #infants and #children with and without visual impairment. ๐ IIT



(2/2) You will work in a highly multicultural and multidisciplinary environment, collaborating with U-VIP IIT, Human-Robot Interfaces & Interaction Lab, and us ๐ค Do you think you have the skills to fill this role? Visit the link in the previous post to discover more and to submit your CV!


Talking science ๐ฃ๏ธ Next Monday, May 12th, Alessandra Sciutti and Monica Gori U-VIP IIT will discuss human and artificial learning in the series of open talks "Scienza Condivisa" ๐ฎ๐น by Repubblica. A great chance to share our results beyond the lab! ๐ genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/0โฆ IIT

๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ Sighted vs. blind: how does vision impact touch & sound during movement? ๐ mdpi.com/3216570 #Haptics #Multisensory #ERC #MarieCurie #Horizon2020 IIT IITalk_projects Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) European Research Council (ERC)



๐ Applying for a #PostdocMobility fellowship from SNSF? ๐ Details & application: snf.ch/en/XIZpfY3iVS5โฆ ๐จ๐ญ The Sense is an interdisciplinary host lab in Switzerlandโideal for bold postdoctoral research! ๐๏ธ Deadline: Aug 5, 2025 ๐ the-sense.ch/research-and-iโฆ #Postdoc #SNSF #JoinUs

๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐How does blindness influence spatial sound perception? ๐ง psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-โฆ #neuroscience #perception #psychology #blindness #research #BayesianBrain #FlexU #MySpace #wHiSPER IIT IITalk_projects Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) European Research Council (ERC)


The perspective article that talks about the new technology for blind infants developed in the European Research Council (ERC) #MySpace project IIT IITalk_projects