Welcome to the Perception to Concepts Group

At the Per2Con Group we study the relation between perception and cognition in the human brain: on one side, we study the aspects of perception that act as fundamental building blocks for the development and acquisition of language-based symbolic cognition; on the other side we study how symbolic acquisitions in turn shape perception.

We combine psychophysics with neuroimaging (fMRI, M-EEG) in adults, children and/or infants from different cultures (e.g. westerns compared to amazon indigenous indians) and with different cognitive/perceptual skills (dyscalculics and/or dyslexics and typically developing).

Our research spans over two main areas: semantic spaces and navigation, and math skills and quantity processing.