Following the authorities’ guidelines, activity in the Department is now reduced to contribute to the control of the spread of COVID-19. Please check the School guidelines here.
Congratulations to Nicola Binetti, currently research fellow at the University College London, who was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to join the Time Perception Lab at SISSA.
We are pleased to announce the PhD thesis defense of Alessandro Toso. Two of his external reviewers, Jaime de la Rocha and Ayelet Landau, have generously agreed to give talks, making December 13 a densely packed day. The schedule is below.
In a study authored by Vahid Esmaeili and Mathew Diamond (head of SISSA's Tactile Perception and Learning Lab), rats compared the speeds of two sequential vibrissal vibrations. Neurons in the primary somatosensory (vS1) and prelimbic (PL) cortex coded the stimuli.
