New in The Lancet Neurology 🧠 — Michela Bassolino & international colleagues make the case for somatosensory hand prostheses: restoring touch, reducing phantom pain & improving life after amputation. Cover article! https://f.mtr.cool/wvgcdronuj
The Sense Innovation and Research Center
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The Sense is a research and innovation center that specializes in the field of sensory sciences.
🔬 Science creates impact when it can be understood. Last week, members of The Sense community joined a science communication workshop at CHUV with Magali Dubois (Radar RP). 💬 What's the biggest challenge in communicating science today? #ScienceCommunication #TheSense
👁️ Un article publié dans @natrevpsychol.nature.com propose un changement de paradigme en #psychologie de la #perception, en s’appuyant sur une large revue de la littérature. Rencontre avec @davidpascucci.bsky.social, l’un de ses auteurs. 👉 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1780...
Élargir la perception en neuropsychologie
Un article publié dans Nature Reviews Psychology propose un changement de paradigme en psychologie de la perception, en s’appuyant sur une large revue de la littérature. Rencontre avec David Pascucci,...
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📖 Our 2025 Annual Report is now available. A year of research, innovation, and collaboration: 🔬 52 research projects 📚 91 scientific publications 🤝 160+ partners Discover the people, projects, and achievements behind The Sense in 2025.
Rapport 2025 - The Sense | Rapport Annuel 2025
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🧠 How does the brain make sense of the world around us? 📘 In a new Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology, Prof. David Pascucci & Prof. Árni Kristjánsson introduce the concept of *spatiotemporal routines*. 🔗 Read the publication:
Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception - Nature Reviews Psychology
Although many perceptual experiments use simplified and isolated stimuli, perception and cognition unfold within richly structured spatiotemporal environments. In this Perspective, we argue that even the most fundamental perceptual functions are inherently shaped by spatial and temporal context. Drawing on converging evidence from vision, attention, memory and decision-making, we outline shared computational principles for how spatiotemporal context governs perception and cognition. We introduce the concept of spatiotemporal routines — mechanisms that integrate spatial and temporal structure to guide perception and behaviour. Within this framework, we advocate for a paradigm shift away from reductionist, context-free paradigms towards approaches that place spatiotemporal context at the core of experimental and theoretical frameworks.
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🧠 The Sense & Musée de la main : “Sensationnel”, expo immersive sur les sens humains rendue possible par un financement Agora. 📅 Dès 2027 ℹ️
The Sense et le Musée de la main Unil-CHUV obtiennent un financement Agora pour l’exposition immersive “Sensationnel : Enquête des sens” - The Sense
Plusieurs investigateurs principaux du Sense et Carolina Liebling du Musée de la main Unil-CHUV ont obtenu un financement Agora pour développer une exposition immersive et interactive consacrée aux sens humains...
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🎓 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞̀𝐬𝐞 – 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐝 🧠 Myopie & perception : comment le cerveau s’adapte au flou ? 📅 11 mai 2026 – 17h 📍 CHUV, Salle séminaire 2 (BH08), Lausanne 👥 Entrée libre #Neurosciences #Recherche #Santé
🔬 Apr 21 – World Creativity & Innovation Day 2026: “Step Out & Innovate” 🚀 At The Sense, research drives innovation: fundamental, clinical & applied 🧪 Curiosity & experimentation 🌟 fuel solutions that impact users & markets. #Innovation #Research #TheSense
Hand prostheses that restore touch and body awareness improve function and embodiment. 🖐️ Michela Bassolino (Sense & HEdS) contributed to the embodiment aspects of this study published in The Lancet Neurology. 🏫 📄
Hand prostheses with somatosensory feedback: functional and clinical benefits
The loss of a hand can disrupt body movements, perception of self and the surrounding world, and the emotional fabric of touch. Advances in neuroprosthetics now make restoration of tactile, proprioceptive, and thermal sensations feasible through interfaces with peripheral nerves, the spinal cord, or...
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On World Autism Day, let’s remember: sensory perception plays a key role in how many autistic individuals experience the world. 🌍 At The Sense, we explore these dimensions to better understand and support diverse needs. 🧠 #Autism #Neurodiversity #Inclusion
🎙️🐒 Le “mâle alpha” n’est pas la norme chez les primates. Dans CQFD, Erica van de Waal (Sense) explique des hiérarchies souvent partagées… voire dominées par les femelles 👩🔬 🎧
La fin du règne du mâle alpha | RTS
On a longtemps cru que parce quʹils étaient généralement plus grands, les mâles dominaient à peu près systématiquement chez les primates. Or, Une étude sur 121 espèces révèle qu'il y en a beaucoup où le pouvoir est nettement plus partagé entre les deux sexes – et un nombre non négligeable de cas où ce sont les femelles qui dominent. Alors comment sʹy prennent-elles? Les explications des primatologues Erica van de Waal, de lʹUniversité de Neuchâtel, et Elise Huchard, de lʹInstitut des sciences de lʹévolution de Montpellier, au micro de Lucia Sillig.
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🚀 HES-SO Microcertification in RehabTech – Technology & Neurorehabilitation (May 2026) led by our PI Michela Bassolino with HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Master RehabTech & SwissNeuroRehab: hands-on neurorehab tech (robotics, perception, neuroprosthetics). 🎓 2 ECTS ⏳ Apply by May 1 👉
HES-SO Microcredential in RehabTech... | HES-SO Valais-Wallis
Microcredential for rehabilitation professionals on digital, robotic and prosthetic technologies in neurorehabilitation. 3-day course, 2 ECTS credits.
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🧬 The Sense Pain & Interoception team received $300K to find biomarkers for hEDS/HSD. 🤖 Using AI + biological & sensory analyses, aiming to improve diagnosis & care. 🔗
$300,000 Grant to Identify Biomarkers for Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - The Sense
The research unit led by Prof. Chantal Berna Renella has received $300,000 in funding from The Ehlers-Danlos Society...
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📖 Last Wednesday, Prof. Chantal Berna Renella, PI at The Sense, gave a lecture in the “Sustainable Care: Between Innovation and Humanism” series by HES-SO Valais-Wallis & S.M.A.R.T. Confluence on integrating complementary medicine safely. #SustainableCare #HESSO
👂 #WorldHearingDay: Early detection saves hearing & learning for children. 🔬 Our Neuro-otology unit advances imaging & minimally invasive surgery to improve diagnosis & care. ❤️ No child should be left behind. https://f.mtr.cool/ptkfrmbrhx
New study (Pittet et al., 2026) shows how NOA & BuzzClip aids complement the white cane, enhancing autonomy & safety for people who are blind. A collaboration between The Sense & @Biped Robotics. 🎧 Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/flcgxatkmg 🌐 #Accessibility #Innovation
News - The Sense
Le jeudi 4 décembre, The Sense a organisé une nouvelle édition de Pizza & Science, un rendez-vous devenu incontournable pour découvrir de l’intérieur les projets innovants de nos unités de recherche…
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🌿 Conférence : Médecine complémentaire et médecine intégrative 🗣️Chantal Berna Renella – découvrez comment intégrer médecines complémentaires de manière sécurisée. 📅 11/03/2026 | 🕡 18:30 | 📍Sion 🔗
Conférence "Médecine complémentaire et médecine intégrative" - The Sense
Participez au cycle de conférences « Soins durables ». Chantal Berna Renella (PI The Sense) explore l’intégration des médecines complémentaires en santé.
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🔬 International Day of Women and Girls in Science | Feb 11 Women represent only 1 in 3 researchers worldwide — and less than 10% in some countries. At The Sense, 60% of affiliated researchers are women. Diversity is our strength. #WomenInScience #IDWGS #TheSense
🔊 Learning to “see” with sound 👂 Asa Kucinkas et al. (2026) show the brain can flexibly learn image-to-sound mappings using sensory substitution (The vOICe). Promising insights for accessible, adaptive tools. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/knveaemfhn #Neuroscience #Innovation
Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping - npj Science of Learning
npj Science of Learning - Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping
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Newsletter #06 is out ✨ 🏔️ Sense Retreat 2025 | 🍕 Pizza & Science | 🤖 Swiss–Korean Innovation Week | 🔄 Closing the Loop workshop 🎙️ Interview & events inside 🔬 Inside The Sense with Prof. Calbimonte, Prof. Bassolino and Prof. Matusz 👉 Read:
Newsletter #06
Stay up-to-date with all the latest news related to The Sense Innovation and Research Center with this new edition of its interactive digital brochure.
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🚨 New preprint! What if individual alpha peak frequency—often treated as a global marker of brain function and clinical phenotypes—actually reflects a mixture of independent alpha rhythms with distinct frequencies and neural origins? That’s what @davidpascucci.bsky.social and I suggest here. #EEG
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Starting 2026 together 🎉 The Sense support team and CODIR brought together Sense affiliates in Vevey for their annual New Year Dinner 🤝 A friendly evening dedicated to exchanges, networking and collaboration 🍽️ Thank you to everyone who joined us. Looking forward to 2026 ✨
A new perspective on tympanic membrane dynamics 👂 New paper by Sense PI Lukas Anschuetz, published in Hearing Research and featured on the journal’s cover 🏆 First 4D quantification of human tympanic membrane motion using synchrotron microtomography 🔬 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/royiduqjdo
🧠 Hypnosis as therapy for non-REM parasomnia: A literature review A systematic review in Sleep Medicine Reviews, led by PIs affiliated with The Sense explores the potential of medical hypnosis for non-REM parasomnias. 🔗
Hypnosis as therapy for non-REM parasomnia: A literature review
This systematic review provides an overview of the use of medical hypnosis for non-rapid eye movement parasomnias. It aims to describe the hypnotic in…
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What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses
Objects in motion follow predictable trajectories that the brain can easily anticipate. We investigated the underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on a form of representational momentum (RM), whereby ...
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🎉 Congratulations to Aurore Fernandez, awarded an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant! She will join Prof. Eva Kosek’s lab at @karolinskainst in Aug/Sept 2026, contributing to cutting-edge research on chronic pain mechanisms. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/wtsoppjmsc #TheSense #Postdoc #Grant
✨ 𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬. Thank you for your trust and for all the meaningful projects shared this year. Wishing you a joyful festive season, #TheSense #HappyHolidays #EndOfYear
🍕🔬 Pizza & Science! On Dec 4, participants explored the Mat-Tech Lab at Energypolis campus, Sion 👩🔬👨🔬. From AI 🤖 to visual perception 👁️, science met conviviality over pizza 🍕. 🔗 Read more :
Pizza & Science – A New Dive into Sensory Research at the Mat-Tech Lab - The Sense
On Thursday, December 4, The Sense hosted a new edition of Pizza & Science, an event that has become a key opportunity to gain an insider’s view of the innovative projects developed within our research units…
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🌄 Sense Retreat 2025 – 2nd Edition brought together 60+ researchers in Champéry! ✨ Keynotes by top scientists 📊 Datablitz & Poster sessions 💡 Innovation & neuroscience at the heart 👉
Sense Retreat 2025 – 2nd Edition: Innovation and Research in Champéry - The Sense
Between mountains and innovation, the Palladium de Champéry and the Hôtel Suisse provided an inspiring setting for the second edition of the Sense Retreat, ...
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