A “romantic” brain: when we see two people becoming one
Our researcher Jon Walbrin from Bangor University published recently in the Neuroimage journal. The paper called “Dyadic interaction processing in the posterior temporal cortex” describes a specific brain region as being associated with the recognition of two-person interactions’ instead of the recognition of two separated individuals.
Several people had a date with our neuroscientists (ERN 2019 participation)
Coming for this year European Researcher's Night, some people had the opportunity to have a "date" with our researchers. On the 27th September night a speed-dating activity happened, where the audience had a limited time to ask some questions to the researchers. Inspired in the original speed-dating events, the participants must rotate from table to table, having the chance to understand in real life what the different researchers do.
The event is held simultaneously all over Europe. In Coimbra, it had activities in the Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, in Jardim Botânico and in Rómulo – Centro Ciência Viva. The European Researcher's Night aims to get science and citizens closer.
Proaction Lab hosts the first edition of CRANIO workshop
The CRANIO - Coimbra-Regensburg Advanced NeuroImaging WOrkshop - is an intensive neuroscience training that has been running during this week. Students from the Regensburg University, in Germany, have joined the Proaction Lab team last Monday and together they have been developing their skills on neuroimaging techniques.
Proaction Lab research is in Cortex cover
Research from the Proaction Lab about how our brain works as a network was the theme of the August edition's cover of Cortex journal.
Papers Out From Important Collaborations
We got a series of papers out from important collaborations. Our first paper on the effects of tDCS at the systems level is out in Cortex (Almeida et al, 2017). We also have a paper out in Neuropsychologia (Chen et al, 2017), where we explore how representations in the ventral temporal cortex are dependent on processing elsewhere.
