Terrific news for the Department — a post-doc of ours, Roberto Bottini, was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to crack the secrets behind consciousness and word meaning in the brain.
We are happy to announce the publication in Current Biology of “Accuracy of rats in discriminating visual objects is explained by the complexity of their perceptual strategy.” (link here for the main article and here for an accompanying Dispatch of Philippe Schyns). The paper originated in the doctoral thesis of Vladimir Djurdjevic, supervised by Davide Zoccolan, and explains how the variability of rat perceptual strategies accounts for the variable proficiency of the animals in complex object discrimination tasks.
We are delighted to announce the publication in Nature of “Posterior parietal cortex represents sensory history and mediates its effects on behaviour.” (link here for main article and
We are excited to announce the publication in Neuron of “Supralinear and Supramodal Integration of Visual and Tactile Signals in Rats: Psychophysics and Neuronal Mechanisms.” (link here and
We're very very happy to announce that a Cognitive Neuroscience graduate at SISSA, Liuba Papeo, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, the most competitive European research grant and the hallmark for Cog Neuro rising stars.
We're very proud to announce that our Coordinator, Davide Crepaldi, was recently appointed as Associate Editor at the British Journal of Psychology. BJP is the third oldest psychology journal in the world, and the oldest in Europe, being established in 1904.
On Wednesday, 5th July, you are welcome to attend the fourth year students progress report presentations. The order of the presentations can be found in the calendar. The location will be communicated shortly.
