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CogBooster is powered by the
European Commission through the Era Chair Actions
(Grant agreement ID: 101087584).

28/08/2026

👀🧠 SAW 2026 - Register now and join the community

Join us for 3 days of inspiring talks and discussions on perception and action with an exciting group of Invited Speakers:

Marina Bedny, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jeffrey Bowers, University of Bristol, UK
Tim Kietzmann, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Roberta Klatzky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kami Koldewyn, Bangor University, UK
Marius Peelen, Radboud University, Netherlands
Elizabeth Tibbets, University of Michigan, USA

📍 Coimbra, Portugal
📅 24–26 September 2026
👉 https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2026/workshop-registration/
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Proaction Lab Cineicc - Fpce-Uc

25/08/2026

🎯SAW is coming!

Register by September 14 and join us for three days of research, inspiring talks, poster sessions, and great networking with the amazing community.

We can’t wait to welcome you to Coimbra! See you at SAW! 👀🧠

🔗https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2026/workshop-registration/
Proaction Lab Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Cineicc - Fpce-Uc

24/08/2026

🎓👏Meet Our FCT PhD Fellows 2026

PhD candidate: José Gomes
Supervisor: Jorge Almeida

Project: Minimal Units of Object Processing - Object Features and The Componentiality of Object Representations
Every day, we are able to recognize objects across changes in color, size, orientation, shape, or viewpoint. But how do we do this so effortlessly? This project investigates the building blocks of visual object recognition, exploring how our brains integrate object features in a hierarchical way, where simpler features are used to build increasingly complex and abstract representations.

Congratulations to José Gomes, and wishing him the very best of luck! 🍀
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Cineicc - Fpce-Uc

20/08/2026

🎯Register by September 14!! 🎯

👀🧠SAW 2026 - Meet the Speakers

Tim Kietzmann (Universität Osnabrück) will be presenting "Machine Learning meets Neuroscience: modelling and deciphering visual representations".

Abstract:
Artificial intelligence has become a central tool in many aspects of everyday and scientific life. In neuroscience, however, its potential goes beyond assisting with coding, writing or data analysis; AI systems can themselves become tools that help us understand the brain. In this talk, I will discuss two complementary uses of machine learning in computational neuroscience: modelling and deciphering neural representations. For modelling, I will introduce the neuroconnectionist perspective, which treats artificial neural networks as a computational language for formulating and testing theories of brain function. As an example of this approach, I will introduce our work on training recurrent neural network models to transform visual scenes into language embeddings, which align surprisingly well with visual representations in human high-level visual areas. Moving to self-supervised learning, I then demonstrate that similarly brain-aligned representations can emerge without semantic supervision, simply by learning to predict visual input across successive eye movements. In the second half of the talk, I will focus on CorText, a project in which we directly integrate brain data into the embedding space of large language models. This approach enables researchers to move beyond single-task brain decoding towards a task-flexible, chat-based interface for querying neural representations. Together, these results illustrate how modern AI can serve both as a framework for computational modelling and as an interface between language and brain data for versatile neural decoding and data exploration.
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Proaction Lab Cineicc - Fpce-Uc

18/08/2026

📣New Paper Out!

When we look at the world around us, our brain is constantly recognising objects and estimating how we can interact with them. For these rapid computations to occur, the representation of these objects has to be organised in an efficient way. A large effort in cognitive neuroscience research is to uncover the principles which determine this organisation.

In our new study, published in NeuroImage, we show that dimensions related to object manipulation (i.e. texture and graspability) explain this organisation better when compared to previously identified dimensions, such as animacy. This is primarily explained by an important connectivity between the areas responsible for object recognition and regions responsible for object manipulation.

🔗Read the paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811926004465

29/07/2026

🎯Last days to submit your abstract!!🎯

👀🧠SAW 2026 - Meet the Speakers
Jeffrey Bowers, from University of Bristol, will be presenting "Current research practices in NeuroAI do not support the many strong claims of ANN-Human Alignment".

Abstract:
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) developed in computer science are successful in a range of vision, language, and reasoning tasks. They can also predict behavioural responses and brain activations of humans better than alternative models. This has led to the common claim that ANNs are the best models of biological intelligence. However, most prediction studies are correlational, and accordingly, do not support causal conclusions. Furthermore, researchers are incentivized to identify ANN-human similarities, as reviewers and editors are more likely to publish studies that report similarities rather than differences. Accordingly, researchers rarely carry out "severe" tests of their claims that are more likely to falsify their conclusions (if indeed the conclusions are false). I show when the relevant experiments are carried out, ANNs do a poor job in explaining human intelligence. The field of NeuroAI needs to change its methods to better characterize ANN-human alignment and build better models of minds.
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Cineicc - Fpce-Uc Proaction Lab

28/07/2026

🤩Recebemos hoje seis dezenas de crianças do Clube de Tempos Livres para um dia repleto de atividades dedicadas ao cérebro e à visão. A visita terminou com uma entrevista ao neurocientista Jorge Almeida, numa conversa cheia de ciência e curiosidade, que estará disponível em breve.

Um enorme obrigado a toda a equipa do CLT de Santa Clara e do CogBooster que tornaram esta atividade possível!
Proaction Lab

24/07/2026

👀🧠SAW 2026 - Meet the Speakers

Roberta Klatzky, from Carnegie Mellon University, will be presenting "SAW should include TAW: Touch is an active modality".

Abstract:
That vision drives action is a given, but what about touch? The somatosensory system is often considered only as a footnote in this context, where the main story is: We may need touch to stably grasp an object, but the essential action is grounded in and directed by vision. My talk is meant to tell the story from the perspective of what happens after we reach to grasp - vision is often occluded, leaving perception through touch to guide the purposive action. I will provide a general overview of touch in relation to action, from the sensory periphery to the complex gating between perception and motor control that commences in the spinal cord and proceeds to the brain. I will highlight my own work on the role of purposive action for haptic perception and how sensory signals guide manipulation.
👉Submit your abstract by July 30!
uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2026/
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Cineicc - Fpce-Uc Proaction Lab

23/07/2026

Meet the CogBooster Team 🧠🌏

Yih-Shiuan Lin - Post-Doctoral Researcher

"Since an early age, I've been fascinated by how easily our brains can be deceived by cleverly designed visual illusions. Wanting to understand more about how human minds work, I decided to pursue a scientific career in human vision. As a visual neuroscientist, I use behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to study how we see and understand the world around us.

Originally from Taiwan, I majored in Psychology for my bachelor's degree and received my master's in the lab of Prof. Chien-Chung Chen at 國立臺灣大學 National Taiwan University, where I focused on perceptual grouping and color vision. I earned my PhD in Experimental Psychology in the lab of Prof. Mark Greenlee at the Universität Regensburg, where I investigated perceptual filling-in and related phenomena using fMRI and MEG. I am now a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Jason Fischer's lab, where my research focuses on revealing the relationship between early visual processes (e.g., visual illusions) and higher-level processes such as physical prediction.

Outside of academic work, I am a mental health advocate and passionate about science communication."
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Cineicc - Fpce-Uc

21/07/2026

👀🧠SAW 2026 - Meet the Speakers

Kami Koldewyn, from Bangor University, will be presenting "Mapping the Social World: Interaction as a Core Dimension of Social Scene Perception".

Abstract:
Humans are inherently social, and our understanding of the world is shaped from the very beginning by the social interactions we observe and engage in. Social interactions are multifaceted and subtle, yet we can almost instantaneously discern if two people are cooperating or competing, flirting or fighting. We swiftly learn a great deal about people from observing their interactions with others – even a brief interaction gives us important clues about their relationship, their personalities, their social abilities, and their current mood. As a consequence, we excel at extracting information from social scenes, using a small network of brain regions that are sensitive to social cues such as faces, bodies, and biological motion. This work has identified the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) as a key region for processing dynamic social interactions, but other regions in the “social brain” – particularly extrastriate body area (EBA) – also show sensitivity to specifically interactive information, depending on stimulus content and context. Here, I’ll primarily explore the brain basis of our remarkable ability to extract interactive information from complex social scenes, particularly looking at the role of various structures in the “social brain” across development.

👉Submit your abstract by July 30!
uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2026/
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Proaction Lab

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