📢Hot off the press: "Neuronal correlates of sleep in honey bees"
#CalciumImaging🔬 in sleeping #bees🐝: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN💻 simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep😴.
📰in Neural Networks: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107575
🍾Thanks to all collaborators: Sebastian Moguilner, Ettore Tiraboschi, Giacomo Fantoni, Heather Strelevitz, Hamid Soleimani, Luca Del Torre, @urihasson
#PhD position in #Magnetoreception Research! 🐝🧠🔬
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy
🔍Research involves:
• Sensory reception 🐝
• Neural processing 🧠🔬
• Behavioural responses 🌀
• Testing predictions of Quantum biology ⚛️
Research at the intersection of #cognitive #neuroscience, #neurobiology, and #quantumbiology: https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/nphys
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🔗 Apply: https://phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/admission-doctorate-cognitive-and-brain-sciences
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
Please spread the word! 🌍
Comparative study between D. melanogaster and the invasive D. suzukii. Significant differences in structure and function of the antennal lobes could be the basis for their different host-seeking behaviour causing huge crop damage: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/1/84
Hands-on workshop “Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy: Focus on Metabolic Imaging”
Organizers: #FLIM Labs, Media System Lab, NeurophysicsLab CIMeC
When: 16/01/2025 10:00-17:00
Where: #CIMeC, #UniTrento, Rovereto, Italy
Registration: free of charge, email to francesco.girardi@m-s.it
New in Journal of Neuroscience! Giada Dirupo and an excellent team studied the role played by contextual information on the processing of facial expressions of #pain and #disgust, and associated neural responses.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/11/18/JNEUROSCI.2233-23.2024
#cimec #unige @unigenews @fmri @painscience @neuro @neuroscience @cognition @cogsci
New preprint with @urihasson : https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.10.11.617548v1
First #calciumimaging of the #honeybee brain during #sleep.
#Machinelearning distinguishes sleep from wakefulness with 93% accuracy in #olfactory network. Clearest difference: the #neuralnetwork state. Nodes are more synchronized during sleep.
A simulation shows reduced inhibitory coupling during sleep, meaning less information processing. Increased inhibition during wakefulness leads to highly distinguishable odour maps. #CIMeC #UniTrento
📢 Check our new findings on potential mitigating factors of Psychological Vulnerability in Primary Care Employees during COVID-19! A multicenter study across 11 hospitals https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2969
With Olivier Hugli, Garance Horisberger and many others
📢 Check our last results 📢 Induction of an emotional response can influence relevant portions of #theoryofmind networks for evaluating others' #affective states, by Emilie Qiao-Tasserit and Patrik Vuilleumier https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/19/1/nsae016/7619657
@neuroscience @fmri @unigenews @cogsci @cognition #cimec
New paper in [Insects]:
#Bees can distinguish/memorize airflow velocities.
Included is a detailed description of how to build a fully automated PER conditioning setup.
"Associative Learning of Quantitative Mechanosensory Stimuli in Honeybees" https://mdpi.com/2661880
Credit goes to Heather Strelevitz and Ettore Tiraboschi
#Insects #Neuroscience #CIMeC #UniTrento
Our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #CIMeC at the University of Trento #UniTrento has opened a call for a #tenture-track position for an Assistant professor in Applied Physics,
with a particular focus on the development of methods of brain signal analysis in the field of cognitive #neuroscience.
Applications here: https://lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/en/bando-dr-valcomp/14-2024-cimec
Deadline: February, 15th
It's sad to empty the office that I occupied for 8 years 😢. Luckily, I have a fresh new one at
#CIMEC (and this time I won't be writing on the wall😜)
📃Using everyday items, #CIMeC researcher Javier Albayay helped the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research test 11,000 people for smell and taste loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting in journal Chemical Senses that the disease also reduces taste, even when not connected to smell https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad020
📢 Thrilled to announce that I'll be joining #CIMeC (https://www.cimec.unitn.it) at the University of Trento this September! 🥳 I'm proud to be part of such esteemed faculty and #neuroscience community! 😎 Thanks to colleagues/friends from @unigenews, without whose support this would not have never been possible.
#CIMeC researchers will provide context about the brain as part of a program on #AI at @MUSE_Trento next week.
In the third-floor Discovery Room, @urihasson, @neurophysics, Raffaella Bernardi, Selene Schintu, Giulia Funghi and Heather Strelevitz – with the help of digital assistant Alexa – offer 3 perspectives on intelligence: animal, human and artificial.
The after-hours program “Ai confini dell’intelligenza” runs from 8-11 pm Thurs 18 May.
https://www.muse.it/programma-muse-fuori-orario-ai-confini-dellintelligenza/
📃 Artificial visual systems mimic human vision both in their ability to understand scenes semantically and in a representational hierarchy similar to that of the visual cortex, write Stefania Bracci of #CIMeC and @HansOpdeBeeck in PLOS Computational Biology in a paper out today.
#DCNN #ArtificialVision #ComputationalObjectVision
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011086
Interested in the CIMeC Master’s program? Learn what our program can do for you during UniTrento Open Days at 2 p.m. on May 9 – in person or by remote. Schedule and registration at event.unitn.it/opendays-lm/en/
#cimec #CognitiveScience
📃The tip of the nose reliably changes temperature according to the level of #socialanxiety, while other parts of the face do not, report #CIMeC 's Javier Albayay and colleagues in Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. The team trained a thermal camera on subjects engaged in five #socialinteraction tasks. The task involving interactions with strangers was the most effective, even more so than public speaking, embarrassment or interaction with the opposite sex.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2199209
📃A team at #CIMeC and two American universities has adapted the SATURN test of #neurodegeneration for self-administration via the web. Sara Assecondi, Chiara Tagliabue and Prof. Veronica Mazza of the Attention, Perception & Aging group published the report in the Journal of Applied Gerontology along with David Bissig and Jeffrey Kaye.
https://journals.sagepub.com/share/N75WEAGHRIZEJKJBZMBB?target=10.1177/07334648231166894
Open science associated material and data in OSF repository here: https://osf.io/xnj5m/
Congratulations to Velu Kumaravel for having brilliantly (cum laude!) discussed his PhD thesis on "Signal Processing Methods for Reliable Extraction of Neural Responses in Developmental EEG" (https://iris.unitn.it/handle/11572/371709). It's been a great experience to supervise your PhD journey together with Elisabetta Farella. Work performed at #CIMeC (#UniversityOfTrento) and #FBK.
📃A robust #NumberSense at 12 months old predicts math skills at age 4, regardless of general intelligence or other skills, report @manuela_piazza and her #CIMeC Per2Con group in Developmental Science, after a #LongitudinalStudy of the same 40 children, three years apart. #EarlyMaths
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13386
