Elisa Frasnelli and Selene Schintu @cimecunitrento.bsky.social took part in Trentino Sviluppo’s initiative “Zigherane, docenti, scienziate”, promoted in the lead-up to International Women’s Day, sharing reflections on #cognition and #neuroscience.
3/3 Includes: MRI+segmentation for modeling & EEG source reconstruction; EEG (no TMS) to validate the oscillation + phase-targeting accuracy; and the main phase-coupled real-time EEG-TMS experiment. + ~4GB scripts/software/dataset.
ℹ️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #brainoscillations
2/3 Brain responsiveness + stimulation-induced plasticity depend on ongoing oscillatory states. This step-by-step protocol shows how to run real-time EEG-TMS and deliver TMS pulses with millisecond precision, synchronized to target states (e.g., oscillation phase).
1/3 📄🧠 New paper out in Nature Protocols! Featuring Prof. @paolobelardinelli.bsky.social (CIMeC, UniTrento) with Christoph Zrenner & Ulf Ziemann: “Oscillatory brain state-dependent stimulation with TMS combined with EEG”.
📅 Save the date: March 11 at 13:30 to 15:00
📝 Seminar "The role of brain oscillations in cognitive functions"
📍 Venue: Learning room, Building 10 Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto
🎤 Speakers: Domenica Veniero & Luca Ronconi
@carlominiussi.bsky.social
🐝 Recap “IBC: Impollinatori, biodiversità e cambiamento” con Fondazione Cassa Rurale Trento.
Frasnelli, Liga e Haase @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: clima e stress ambientali possono alterare orientamento e cognizione dell’ape da miele.
3/3 The team proposes an anatomy-guided workflow to choose montage + electrode geometry, boosting reproducibility and personalization, hoping to help to shift from “does it work?” to “for whom, under which conditions, and with what delivered dose?”
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
2/3 Based on HCP-Aging data (n=590), the study shows that “one-size-fits-all” tDCS montages in working memory studies yield very different E-fields, often extending beyond the DLPFC. Fields frequently reach executive & default mode networks; variability is linked to gyrification & skull/CSF anatomy
1/3 Research update: Sara Assecondi + Dimitrios Stoupis published an MRI-based #tDCS modeling study in Journal of Neural Engineering (IOP): “Anatomy-informed recommendations for electrode montage and shape…”
Today at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: talk by Lais Razza (Ghent Univ.) on optimizing prefrontal non-invasive brain stimulation
Anatomical differences can influence the overall effects of #NIBS effects on the PFC; personalized protocols may reduce outcome variability
ⓘ eventi.unitn.it/it/advancing...
Places we’re not in: In a Nature News & Views #2025, Prof. Uwe Mayer offers an expert take on bird “place cells” firing not only when an animal is in a location, but also when it views it from afar, connecting attention, memory & planning.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#neurobiology
Elisa Frasnelli e Maria Bortot hanno presentato i primi risultati di MicroBee (Fondazione CARITRO) sul ruolo del microbiota nella salute, nella locomozione e nelle abilità cognitive dell’ape da miele, durante un incontro tecnico per gli apicoltori trentini
ℹ️ www.palazzoroccabruna.it/seminario-te...
Applications open (EU & equivalents) for the MSc in Cognitive #Neuroscience, Modelling & Behavioral Neuroscience at
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social, University of Trento.
More info ➜ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive...
New paper out! Novel object recognition in the dorsomedial & ventral hippocampus of young domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)
Published in Brain Structure & Function @springernature.com by A. Morandi, A. Cumplido-Mayoral & Uwe Mayer
🔗️ Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🐝 IBC: Impollinatori, biodiversità e cambiamento
“Grazie alle api assicuriamoci il futuro”
📅 19/02 ore 18:00, Palazzo Benvenuti , Sala Nones (TN)
Aggiornamenti, demo sperimentale e Q&A
Intervengono: Debora Cont, Elisa Frasnelli, Davide Liga e Albrecht Haase
Info: eventi.unitn.it/it/ibc-impol...
“Pathways for learning arithmetic: Distinct dynamics for associative and procedural acquisition”
Published in Cognition
Full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Congratulations to CIMeC researchers P. Maldonado Moscoso & M. Piazza (@manpiazza.bsky.social), and to all the researchers involved. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
📅 Feb 16 | 10:00 - 11:00
Join the @cimecunitrento.bsky.social & Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) seminar:
“The Emergence of Disorder in Spatial and Linguistic Cognition”
📍 Palazzo Fedrigotti, Rovereto
🗣 Prof. Alessandro Treves (SISSA)
From the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences: today we celebrate #connection 🧠 🩵
Join us for the seminar: Advancing the Optimization of Pre-Frontal Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Protocols
🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 13:00
📍 Learning Room, Building 10, Piazza della Manifattura 1, Rovereto
Speaker: Lais Razza, Ghent University
@carlominiussi.bsky.social
International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
At CIMeC, brilliant women advance cognitive neuroscience & help us better understand the brain, across our labs and classrooms
By sharing their achievements, we hope to inspire the next generation of women scientists & support greater inclusion in STEM
A study published in Heliyon (Cell Press), involving our @cimecunitrento.bsky.social researchers, shows that prenatal light exposure shapes brain lateralization in chicks 👇
🔗️ doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
Our latest paper in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement @springernature.com by Sara Assecondi suggests that gains in visuo-spatial working memory don’t reliably translate into better reading performance. 🧠📚
Full article: doi.org/10.1007/s41465-025-00342-4
#cognitivetraining #cognitiveaging
New consensus guidance for assessing #SocialCognition in #NeurocognitiveDisorders, with clinical recommendations.
SIGNATURE’s 2nd output (@aledod.bsky.social/CIMeC_UniTrento; C. Cerami/IUSS Pavia, et al.)
Published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy.
🔗 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1186/s131...
Explore the Cognitive Neuroscience track at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: brain imaging, decision-making, memory, attention.
Apply MSc Cognitive Science! Non-EU deadline: Mar 4, 2026. ℹ️corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science
@urihasson.bsky.social #cognitiveneuroscience
The Fundamental Behavioural Neuroscience track @cimecunitrento.bsky.social: hands-on animal models to study brain development/evolution, behaviour & cognition
+ cutting-edge behavioural, molecular & neurobiological techniques.
Apply by March 4 (non-EU deadline)
ℹ️ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science
Bridge AI and linguistics with the Computational and Theoretical Modelling of Language and Cognition (CLC) track at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social!
Apply to our MSc in Cognitive Science
First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: March 4, 2026.
ℹ️ corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive-science
#cimec_unitrento #AI
Applications are open for the 2026/27 MSc in Cognitive Science at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social.
First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Apply now: corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive...
#cimec_unitrento #neuroscience
A recent paper by Arianna Brancaccio, Cora M. Lanza, and Selene Schintu, published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social , examines how interhemispheric attentional dynamics change with the functional state of the #attentional network.
🔗 shorturl.at/hnSe6
New Proc. Royal Society B paper by T. Simon, E. Frasnelli (CIMeC UniTrento), A. Wilkinson, K. Guo & D. Mills: dogs use right visual field/left brain for positive anticipation and left visual field/right brain for frustration, supporting the valence hypothesis.
🔗https://shorturl.at/mS3JA
Carlo Miniussi & Sara Assecondi contributed to an international collaborative effort that led to the updated guidelines on low-intensity #tES, published in Clinical Neurophysiology.
🔗 Full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
@carlominiussi.bsky.social
