Imagine looking at someone, a friend, a loved one or a stranger, and seeing the glow that grows as a function of how strongly your brains’ activity synchronizes. This is what nearly 5000 people experienced thanks to one talented research group and an artist. Finding original ways to solve scientific questions can result in elegant...
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Data Visualisation: what should we learn from accessibility and data journalism
Data visualisation is meant to convey a message and tell a story. To do so, we should be as clear, inclusive and intuitive as possible.
A Short Introduction to Social Robotics: The Perfect Platform for Interdisciplinary Research
Social Robots have been one of the focal points of science fiction movies for many years now, a famous example being the robot named “Sonny” in the movie I, Robot. It was not long ago when a Humanoid robot Sophia was awarded a Saudi Arabian citizenship and became the first robot to receive citizenship of...
From Industry to Industrial PhD
If you are someone in industry and are curious about pursuing a PhD, I hope this post encourages you to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Research (ESR) position and learn why this may be a good fit for you. My journey During the pandemic, I left my family and friends, resigned from my...
Neurolinguistics by Dr. Kristof Strijkers
Dr. Kristof Strijkers is a researcher in the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) at Aix-Marseille University (AMU). During the first CoBra training event, Dr. Strijkers gave three lectures on Neurolinguistics, exploring the brain regions enabling human language. If it was usually considered that certain brain regions are specifically dedicated to language functions, Dr. Strijkers introduced...
Why conversation is so easy: A series of lectures by Prof. Martin Pickering
During our Bratislava Training Event, Professor Martin Pickering presented the content of his and Professor Simon Garrod’s recent book “Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction”.
Gender in science by Dr. Susanne Fuchs
What is gender and how can we measure it? Is science sexist? During the first Cobra training event Dr. Susanne Fuchs discussed questions such as these in her lecture series titled ‘Gender in Science’. What is gender? Dr. Susanne Fuchs began her presentation by highlighting perhaps the most important fact about gender: it is not...
Language and the Brain: The Neuroscience Workshop by Prof. Peter Hagoort
How does our brain make it possible for us to have conversations? What brain regions are the most important for speaking or for understanding speech? And how do we connect what we know about the human mind to what we know about the brain? During the first COBRA training event, Prof. Peter Hagoort, of the...
When can you expect blog posts from us?
Good to see you here! Today, we wanted to give you a general overview of when you can expect a new blog post coming out. Our plan is to share a new post every other week; however, we sometimes can deviate from our plans on special occasions. One such occasion which can cause us to...
ESRs assemble – Welcome to the COBRA ESR blog
Introducing the ESR blog, where 15 PhD fellows from all over the world are writing about science and the ups and downs of being an MSCA ITN PhD fellow.