Revisiting consciousness: Distinguishing between states of conscious focused attention and mind wandering with EEG
In an article recently out in Conscious and Cognition, Óscar Goncalves along with colleagues from Tilburg University and University of Madeira, showed that our typical daily oscillation between focused and wandering consciousness is associated in the attenuation of some of the neurophysiological markers of consciousness access.
Óscar Gonçalves awarded for Teaching Innovation
Óscar Gonçalves recently received the 2022 Teaching Innovation Award by the University of Coimbra. The awarded project, U3C – University of Coimbra Consciousness Consortium, came to life through the course Neuropsicologia da Consciência (Neuropsychology of Consciousness) of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCEUC), having its first edition in the academic year of 2020/2021.
We are looking for post-doctoral fellows and research assistants
We are looking for 2 post-doctoral fellows: 1 in Computational Neuroscience and Dimensionality Reduction (e.g., SOMs) and 1 in Neuroimaging (fMRI) and MVPA.
The Proaction lab is also looking for 3 Research Assistants with experience working with fMRI and MVPA.
Proaction Lab hosts the 3rd conference of 'New Interdisciplinary Horizons in Psychological Research'
The 3rd conference of the conference series NeoPsych supported by IBRO and by the ERC gathered international word-class specialists in cognitive neuroscience to reflect about the centrality of Cognitive Neuroscience to Psychological Research.
We thank all our great speakers for their amazing talks!
Proaction Lab hosts 'New Interdisciplinary Horizons in Psychological Research'
NeoPsych (short for New Interdisciplinary Horizons in Psychological Research) are a series of academic meetings that aim to set a standard for what the Psychological Research arena and its interdisciplinary interfaces in Portugal should be for the upcoming decade. The events are free to attend but the registration is mandatory. The first event of the series takes place in October 2021.
