| 2014 |
| November |
| The CPP group is hosting a research seminar on 6th November by Flavio Dell' Acqua MR research engineer and lecturer at the Department of Neuroimaging (KCL): Advanced models for diffusion imaging and tractography |
| October |
| Markus Van Ackeren starts a posdoc in the lab. Welcome! |
| September |
| Thumbs up for Giulia Dormal who defended her Phd Thesis with perfection this week! |
| Congratulation to Mohamed, now master in cognitive science, obtained '110/110 e lode' ! |
| Congratulations to Giulia and Stefania for having their opinion paper accepted: Elli G, Benetti S, and Collignon O. (In Press). Is There a Future for Sensory Substitution Outside Academic Laboratories? Multisensory Research |
| Congratulation to Ambra for her impressive master thesis defense and here graduation obtained '110/110 e lode e dignità di stampa' - beyond that there is nothing! |
| August |
| New collaborative review paper accepted: Mottron L, Belleville S, Rouleau G, Collignon O. (In press). Linking Neocortical, Cognitive, and Genetic Variability in Autism with Alterations of Brain Plasticity: the Trigger-Threshold-Target Model. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews |
| Congrats to Benedetta for having her review paper accepted: Heimler B, Weisz N, and Collignon O. (In Press). Revisiting the adaptive and maladaptive effects of crossmodal plasticity. Neuroscience |
| July |
| Congratulation to Giulia Elli who defended her master thesis with brio and graduated 'cum laude'. |
| Roberto Bottini, a close collaborator of the lab, wrote (in italian) a very interesting piece on the 'neuroscience of blindness' in Luce Magazine (the webzine of the blind association from Milan) mostly based on our recent experiment about space-time perception in blind individuals. Link here. |
| June |
| The CPP lab organizes a MADVIS-project seminar with Xiaoqing Gao: Learning to see faces. |
| Watch out for our presentation at BIOMAG this year by Audrey Doualot et al.: Investigating crossmodal plasticity in blind individuals with Magentoencephalography. |
 New paper accepted: Crollen V, Noël MP, Seron X, Mahau P, Lepore F and Collignon O. (In Press). Visual experience influences the interactions between fingers and numbers. Cognition |
| The lab CPP lab MADVIS-project seminar with Daniel Casasanto. |
| New arrival: Jodie Davies-Thompson joins the lab as a postdoc. |
| If you go to HBM-Hamburg this year, dont miss our two posters: - Dormal G. Functional selectivity for looming and laterally moving sounds in the occipital cortex of the blind. Poster #4046 - June 11 / 12h45-14h45. - Pelland M. State-dependent Modulation of Functional Connectivity in Congenitally Blind Individuals. Poster #4071 - June 12 / 12h45-14h45. |
| May |
| In the framework of the 'Advanced Topics in Perception' class I co-teach with Wieske Van Zoest in the CIMeC Master program, we are hosting a workshop on OpenSesame with Sebastiaan Mathôt. |
| April |
| The PhD Call for the 30th Cycle is out and the online application is now open (http://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/2692/announcement-selection). The CIMeC has been ranked as best center for cognitive science research in Italy. Its faculty has 6 ERC starting grants and 1 advanced grant. The Program is in English. |
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Official kickoff of the MADVIS project [MApping the Deprived VIsual System: Cracking function for prediction] funded by an European Research Council-Starting Grant attributed to Olivier. Giornalesentire / Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American |
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| 2013 |
| November |
| The CPP-Lab has suddenly doubled! We are happy to welcome to 2 new undergraduate (Tevhide Hicret and Mohamed Tawfik) and 2 new graduate students (Ceren Battal and Stefania Mattioni). And we are more and more international - 5 nations represented now. |
| Our paper recently published in JoCN is the lead story on the homepage of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. |
| September |
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New paper accepted: Charbonneau G, Veronneau M, Boudrias-Fournier C, Lepore F, & Collignon O. (2013) The ventriloquist in periphery: Impact of eccentricity-related reliability on audio-visual localization. Journal of Vision, 13(12):20, 1–14. |
| August |
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PIZZA-TIME to celebrate the end of Giulia's fMRI acquisition period. |
| July |
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Ranked #1! The University of Trento came out #1 in the category of medium-sized universities and CIMeC #1 in the category Psychology department in the Italian national ranking, published yearly by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). |
| June |
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New paper accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: 'Blue light stimulates cognitive brain activity in visually blind individuals' by Vandewalle G*., Collignon O.*, Hull J., Daneault V., Czeisler C., Lepore F., Doyon J., Dumont M., Lockley S. & Carrier J. [*Indicates equal contribution] |
| Olivier gave a talk at the 'Sensory Substitution Workshop' held at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem (organized by Shelly Levy-Tzedek and Amir Amedi). |
| Our group was well represented at the last IMRF meeting in Israel with three talks: - Giulia Dormal on 'Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of sight restoration after longstanding visual deprivation'; - Virginie Crollen on ' Visual experience differentially impacts the egocentric and allocentric coding of touch and motor sequence'; - Olivier Collignon on 'The impact of blindness onset on the organization and connectivity of the occipital cortex' [Talk held in a symposium on Crossmodal Plasticity organized by Steven Lomber]. |
| May |
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New paper accepted in Brain: 'Impact of blindness onset on the functional organization and connectivity of the occipital cortex' by Collignon, O., Dormal, G., Albouy G., Vandewalle G., Voss P., Phillips C., Lepore, F. |
| April |
| Emmanuelle Dostie-Dionne won a prize for her posted communication @ CERNEC annual meeting. |
| Giulia Dormal won a prize for her posted communication @ CERNEC annual meeting. |
| Stefania Benetti joins the lab/CIMeC for a 3-years postdoc. Welcome! |
| Giulia Dormal won a student award to attend the next IMRF meeting in Jerusalem. |
| February |
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Genevieve's paper on the processing of audio-visual emotion expressions in autism spectrum disorder accepted in Neuropsychologia. |
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| 2012 |
| December |
| Audrey Droualot (PhD student at UQAM-Montreal) receives an RBIQ fellowship to support her training period in the lab (from January to April 2013). |
| Fabien's paper on the 'emotional capture' of spatial attention accepted in Cortex. |
| November |
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Simon's paper on 'intra- vs cross-modal integration' accepted in Experimental Brain Research. |
| October |
| Giullia Elli and Alessandro Lopopolo start a research training period in the lab on 'Brain mechanisms of the multisensory integration of emotional expressions'. |
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Robert Oostenveld and Roemer van der Meij (Donders Institute), visited CIMeC for a 2.5 day Fieldtrip workshop. |
| September |
| Stefania Ferraro selected for the CIMeC 3-years PhD program and will do her research in the lab on multisensory integration and crossmodal plasticity. |
| July |
| Virginie's opinion paper on 'embodied space in blinds' accepted in Frontiers in Psychology. |
| June |
| Giulia's review paper on 'the plasticity of the dorsal stream in blinds' accepted in Neural Plasticity. |
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