The research team working on the ERC project CoPeST "Construction of perceptual space-time" scored two more successes in its final phase: two publications in world-renowned journals in less than two months.
Most recently, an article has been published in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious publication and the official scientific journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
The article describes the discovery of individual differences in the brain’s speed (to be precise, in the speed of visual perception) and the ability of people to increase or decrease the speed of brain activity, which influences behaviour.
The previous article appeared at the beginning of December in the same journal. The publications authored by the team have been numerous since the start of the project, and these articles published in PNAS are just the last in a series of over 30 publications in science magazines of various countries, always in the field of brain studies.
CoPeST was funded as an ERC Starting Grant within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission and received over one million euro in its 60 months of duration from January 2013 to December 2017. It focused on the creation of spatial and temporal perception and, in particular, on the mechanisms that the brain uses based on the information it receives from the senses. The way in which the brain collects and processes visual stimuli is crucial to respond efficiently, and therefore to avoid danger, move in a given direction, and so on. As the flow of information we receive from the outside world is varied and complex, our system of perception processes it at regular intervals.
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