Roberto Bottini
@BottiniRob
Cognitive Neuroscientist @CIMeC. Views are my own. Reposts are not endorsements.
2 more days to apply! 3y postdoc, Memory, Cog Maps, Eye Movements! More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEEpl…
When faced with a cluttered desk—a stapler, banana, receipt, toy dinosaur—we often group things by meaning to make sense of the mess. @Xinchi_Yu's study shows this spontaneous semantic grouping boosts the efficiency of visual working memory. doi.org/10.1037/xhp000… @APA_Journals
Our new study in @NatComputSci, led by Haibao Wang, presents a neural code converter aligning brain activity across individuals & scanners without shared stimuli by minimizing content loss, paving the way for scalable decoding and cross-site data analysis. nature.com/articles/s4358…
A global minimum tax (although very minimal) was a very important step toward equality and world wide cooperation. But, multinationals won again. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Rectangles, only. Where are the circles?!
Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… .@chazfirestone
Human attention-guided visual perception is governed by rhythmic oscillations and aperiodic timescales doi.org/10.1371/journa… #neuroscience
'Night science' is what you do when you're not sure what's the question.
📷 3-Year Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience at @BottiniLab, CIMeC, University of Trento! 📷 Memory, attention, eye movements, and cognitive maps INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1WGEEpl… DEADLINE TO APPLY JULY 9TH - BUT FLEXIBLE START AT END 2025 OR SPRING 2026!
3 years Postdoc in Cognitive neuroscience. Memory, cognitive maps, attention & eye movements. fMRI/MEG/iEEG -- Two more weeks to apply! Description: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6IuuX…
ERC President Maria Leptin was awarded the De Sanctis Europa Award.🏅 Congratulations to the winners - all prominent European figures in the fields of art, humanities & science - including @EP_President Metsola, ECB President @Lagarde, H.M. Queen Mother of the Belgians Paola. 🇪🇺
I am not an expert on EEG or CLT, but this seems to be the most expected result ever, and yet very important to show. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Our paper is now accepted at Neural Networks! This work builds on our previous threads, updated with deeper analyses. We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive? Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.neun… 🧵1/12
Recent studies have shown photorealistic reconstructions from fMRI data using CLIP/diffusion models and the NSD dataset (Left). We evaluated the methods on the Deeprecon dataset (Shen+ 2017/19) with added annotations, but found the results not so impressive ( Right).
happy 8th birthday of maybe the most influential paper of all time 🥳
Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…
If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.
Amazing progress!
Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7 Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C
Save the Date: CIMeC Città 2025 Mini rassegna di conferenze neuroscientifiche 📍 Rovereto | 17/6 - 16/7 🧠 Mente, AI, tecnologia, e molto altro Evento gratuito, ti aspettiamo! #CIMeCCittà2025 #Neuroscienze
Great work by Changde Du from Huiguang He's lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. How similar are visual and conceptual representations in (multimodal) large language models to those found in humans? It turns out quite similar! nature.com/articles/s4225…
🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience at @BottiniLab, CIMeC, University of Trento! 🚨 Join our international team to explore memory, attention, eye movements, and cognitive maps using advanced neuroimaging methods (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG). More info: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6IuuX…
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…