📃Using everyday items, #CIMeC researcher Javier Albayay helped the Global Consortium
for Chemosensory Research test 11,000 people for smell and taste loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting in journal Chemical Senses that the disease also reduces taste, even when not connected to smell doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad020

📢 Thrilled to announce that I'll be joining #CIMeC (https://www.cimec.unitn.it/) at the University of Trento this September! 🥳 I'm proud to be part of such esteemed faculty and #neuroscience community! 😎 Thanks to colleagues/friends from @unigenews, without whose support this would not have never been possible.

Interested in the CIMeC Master’s program? Learn what our program can do for you during UniTrento Open Days at 2 p.m. on May 9 – in person or by remote. Schedule and registration at event.unitn.it/opendays-lm/en/
#cimec #CognitiveScience

📃The tip of the nose reliably changes temperature according to the level of #socialanxiety, while other parts of the face do not, report #CIMeC 's Javier Albayay and colleagues in Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. The team trained a thermal camera on subjects engaged in five #socialinteraction tasks. The task involving interactions with strangers was the most effective, even more so than public speaking, embarrassment or interaction with the opposite sex.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2199209

📃A team at #CIMeC and two American universities has adapted the SATURN test of #neurodegeneration for self-administration via the web. Chiara Tagliabue of Prof. Veronica Mazza’s Attention, Perception & Aging group published the report in the Journal of Applied Gerontology @sgsmgr along with @sassecon @JeffreyKaye5 and David Bissig.
https://journals.sagepub.com/share/N75WEAGHRIZEJKJBZMBB?target=10.1177/07334648231166894

Open science associated material and data in OSF repository here: https://osf.io/xnj5m/

📃A robust #NumberSense at 12 months old predicts math skills at age 4, regardless of general intelligence or other skills, report @manuela_piazza and her #CIMeC Per2Con group in Developmental Science, after a #LongitudinalStudy of the same 40 children, three years apart. #EarlyMaths
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13386

📃The connectivity patterns of frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction differentiate their separate roles in spatial and non-spatial top-down attention, report #CIMeC researchers Orhan Soyuhos and Daniel Baldaufb in an #MEG/#MRI study in the European Journal of Neuroscience #Brainconnectivity #neuraloscillations #brainrhythms #functionalconnectivity#FEF #IFJ
doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15936

📃Low levels of the soil odor geosmin suppress the #honeybee stinging response while higher levels do not, and a further investigation of olfactory receptor neurons offers possible explanations of that variability, reports Florencia Scarano of #CIMeC @neurophysics with Mukilan Deivarajan Suresh, Ettore Tiraboschi, Amélie Cabirol, Morgane Nouvian & @drtnowotny in a study in @SciReports.
https://rdcu.be/c7AJs

RT @cimec_unitrento
📃A new neurogenetic tool allows deeper exploration of the honeybee brain, esp. its rich olfactory system. The calcium-based sensor was developed by and has been described by #CIMeC Prof. Albrecht Haase of @NeurophysicsT and colleagues in @PLOSBiology
http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001984

📃A new neurogenetic tool will allow deeper exploration of the honeybee brain, particularly its highly developed olfactory system. The calcium-based sensor was developed and has been recently described by #CIMeC Prof. Albrecht Haase of @neurophysics and colleagues in @PLOSBiology
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001984

More information available in the UniTrento press release.
ENG: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/en/news/ateneo/115659/the-fluorescent-protein-that-lights-up-the-brain-of-bees
ITA: https://pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/una-proteina-fluorescente-far-luce-sul-cervello-delle-api

📃A different kind of nerve stimulation (specifically of the vagus nerve) better alleviates virtual driving simulator motion sickness, according to a new paper in Applied Ergonomics from #CIMeC researcher Javier Albayay.
doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103921

#CIMeC paper 📃 alert! New perspective 🔍 on #multisensory processing in face-to-face interactions, bridging recent frameworks in #psycholinguistics and #sensory neuroscience from CIMeC’s CAtS group Stefania Benetti and Francesco Pavani (plus @ambrafer) in Frontiers
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1108354