Like humans, monkeys likely use symbolic features to encode geometric shapes, such as symmetry, parallelism, and right angles. Geometric intuition may be the latest trait that turns out not to be unique to humans after all. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/rAwU50Zto10

Traguardi raggiunti ❤️ Onorata e felice di correre sempre al tuo fianco!

Today 10.30 am don't miss Prof Yanik talking about Engineering brain activity patterns for therapeutics Aula 02, Via della Torretta n. 16, 50137 Firenze Or Zoom, more info here: www.neurofarba.unifi.it/art-323-9-fe...

Congratulations to the UNIFI (University of Florence) team (Alessandro Benedetto, Roberto Arrighi and colleagues), and a big thank-you to Ruei Wu for setting up a dDPI eyetracker and gaze-contingent display setup in their lab! 🙌

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience Review by Monica Gori, Maria Bianca Amadeo & Andrew J. Bremner go.nature.com/49iRXH9

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Associate Professor at the University of Florence!

New study in BMC Biologyl! We found that individuals with higher math anxiety exhibited worse numerosity thresholds as well as stronger central tendency and serial dependence effects compared to those with lower math anxiety. rdcu.be/eK25j

Hello #MCLS2026 !☘️ We are delighted to announce the dates for our upcoming conference in Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹 Thanks to the local organisers at Università di Padova S. Caviola, R. Rugani, M. Ranzini, and others @mcls-official.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social #neuroskyence #cogsci #edusky #devpsy

Great day discussing number perception across species and development at SINS!

I am already there! Can't wait!!! :D Love it!🥰🤩❤️

Thérèse Collins@theresecollins.bsky.social · last yr.

As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!

New study out! Congrats to @alirezakr.bsky.social for the great work!

Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی@alirezakr.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New article out featuring CIMeC researchers Alireza Karami and Manuela Piazza, in collaboration with Elisa Castaldi and Evelyn Eger! @alirezakr.bsky.social, @manpiazza.bsky.social Read more 👇🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08395-z

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · last yr.

This study reveals distinct neural codes for visual numerosity across the brain, showing that numerosity is independently represented from early visual areas to higher-level regions along both dorsal and ventral streams. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This study reveals distinct neural codes for visual numerosity across the brain, showing that numerosity is independently represented from early visual areas to higher-level regions along both dorsal and ventral streams. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Distinct neural representational geometries of numerosity in early visual and association regions across visual streams - Communications Biology

This study reveals distinct neural codes for visual numerosity across the brain, showing that numerosity is independently represented from early visual areas to higher-level regions along both dorsal ...

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Looking for volunteers for an online study! Anyone aged between 18 and 85 who speaks fluent Italian or English can participate. 🎯 The study explores the relationship between numerical and visuospatial abilities, and how these are influenced by genetic, experiential and emotional factors.

Very proud to be part of this important and exciting work, also featured in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition

Four children can now see shapes, find toys, recognise their parents’ faces and some can read and write

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Child Vision Lab @UCL@childvisionlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thrilled to see this monumental work in @thelancet.bsky.social! A single subretinal injection led to staggering improvements in nearly blind children, while behavioural and EEG data from our lab reveal a dramatic boost in function and cortex activity. A major leap for vision restoration! t.ly/fvdQy

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Il senso del numero distingue gli oggetti che contiamo - Unifimagazine - La testata online dell’Ateneo fiorentino

Il legame tra calcolo e identità visiva al centro di una ricerca condotta dai Dipartimenti di Neurofarba e di Fisica e Astronomia, pubblicata su Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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In the news with Roberto Arrighi, Paolo Grasso and Camilla Caponi :) www.lanazione.it/firenze/cron...

Università di Firenze, neuroscienze: il legame tra calcolo numerico e identità visiva

La ricerca è stata pubblicata su Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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New paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Feature-selective adaptation of numerosity perception | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Perceptual adaptation has been widely used to infer the existence of numerosity detectors, enabling animals to quickly estimate the number of objects in a scene. Here, we investigated, in humans, whet...

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New paper out: “Groupitizing”: A Visuo-Spatial and Arithmetic Phenomenon direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

“Groupitizing”: A Visuo-Spatial and Arithmetic Phenomenon

Abstract. When objects are grouped in space, humans can estimate numerosity more precisely than when they are randomly scattered. This phenomenon, called groupitizing, is thought to arise from the int...

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Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature Communications

This study examined the role of age and culture in determining spatial-numerical associations. Results showed all groups displayed implicit left-to-right biases, suggesting a biological basis for spac...

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Excited to share my first first-author paper out now in PNAS! By comparing retinotopically-defined visual areas in macaques and humans, we found that evolutionary expansion is reflected in the size, not number, of visual areas. #neuroskyence #neuroscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pupil size as a biomarker of cognitive (dys)functions: Toward a physiologically informed screening of mental states Congrats Serena Castellotti & co.!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pupil size as a biomarker of cognitive (dys)functions: Toward a physiologically informed screening of mental states

The objective assessment of cognitive processes is of critical importance to understanding the mechanisms underlying various mental functions and dysf…

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Another step forward in improving neurosurgical procedures: Application of Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (nTMS) to Study the Visual–Spatial Network and Prevent Neglect in Brain Tumour Surgery Congratulations Camilla Bonaudo et al! www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/16...

Application of Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (nTMS) to Study the Visual–Spatial Network and Prevent Neglect in Brain Tumour Surgery

Objective: Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) has seldom been used to study visuospatial (VS) circuits so far. Our work studied (I) VS functions in neurosurgical oncological patients b...

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📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN! 🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online! 🔍 Review the submission guidelines ⬇️ Download the required templates 🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

Registration open for our Neuroimaging summer school in Cambridge in September 2025: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

This reminds us that there are many pathways outside the 'main' one to primary visual cortex (V1) that can function after V1 lesions. Some can even deliver conscious visual experiences. For example, conscious motion vision sometimes survives (aka Riddoch phenomenon) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABQ...

The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain | SKUNK BEAR

YouTube video by NPR

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠@nataliepeluso.com · 2y ago

Fascinating new blindsight piece from Beatrice de Gelder, Nicholas Humphrey, and my wonderful UQ colleague Alan Pegna, about their blindsight patient (TM) - who not only accurately detects colour but reports the 'experience' of colour, especially red #visionscience doi.org/10.1093/cerc...