Cognition & Brain Dynamics

The UNICOG Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab focuses on understanding the foundational role of time in human cognition, exploring questions like the relationship between implicit and explicit timing, the ties between time and memory, the structure of temporal cognitive maps, or the neural bases of time awareness. We mostly focus on neurotypical brains with collaborative work extended to patients (e.g., schizophrenia, depression). We translate some of our work to animal models to explore temporal behaviors shared across species. We rely mostly on time-resolved (MEG, EEG, mEEG, sEEG) but also anatomically-resolved (3T, 7T) neuroimaging combined with experimental psychology and psychophysics. Depending on our scientific needs, we use and develop computational modeling to investigate temporal coding, combine encoding and decoding models to assess timing in the brain, or advanced methods including oscillatory coupling, aperiodic spectral analysis, or functional connectivity. Sometimes, we have also been known to adopt innovative techniques like mobile EEG (mEEG) in high-speed-trains or Virtual Reality.

You can learn more about the research of our team here: https://brainthemind.com/