CogBooster: Rebooting Psychological Research through Cognitive Neuroscience

Project Information

CogBooster

Grant agreement ID: 101087584

DOI

10.3030/101087584

EC signature date 26 October 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 29 February 2028

Funded under

• Widening participation and spreading excellence

Total cost

€ 2 499 827,50

EU contribution

€ 2 499 827,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Portugal

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Initial Data Management Plan

A data management plan to be employed by CogBooster's team will be developed

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

Open Ceremony and Lecture (Youtube)

The lecture will be streamed in FPCE-UC's youtube channel and will be then saved and be available as a deliverable.

Webpage of the project

The webpage of the project will be launched

Dissemination of the second “Seminar in Psychological Research”

We will disseminate the second “Seminar in Psychological Research”, and the outputs and impacts of these dissemination efforts will be collated as a deliverable.

National and international announcements for the BSc, MSc and PhD programs

The national and international announcements for the academic programs in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience will be delivered

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Primary manipulation knowledge of objects is associated with the functional coupling of pMTG and aIPS

Author(s): Akbar Hussain, Jon Walbrin, Marija Tochadse, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 205, 2024, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034

Editorial: Deep learning and neuroimage processing in understanding neurological diseases

Author(s): Joana Carvalho, Ali Abdollahzadeh, Ricardo José Ferrari
Published in: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1662-5188
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2024.1523973

Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: The topographical organization of manipulable object information

Author(s): J. Almeida, S. Kristensen, Z. Tal, A. Fracasso
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 321, 2025, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2025.121514

Characterizing the discriminability of visual categorical information in strongly connected voxels

Author(s): Jon Walbrin, Paul E. Downing, Filipa Dourado Sotero, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA.2024.108815

Manipulable object processing reveals distinct neural and behavioral signatures for visual, functional, and manipulation properties

Author(s): Daniela Valério, André Peres, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Communications Psychology, 2026, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-026-00393-Z

Visual simulation: Catching a glimpse of what’s to come

Author(s): Jason Fischer
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.018

The Neural Organization of Visual Information in the Auditory Cortex of the Congenitally Deaf

Author(s): Zohar Tal, Joana Sayal, Fang Fang, Yanchao Bi, Jorge Almeida, Alessio Fracasso
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, 2026, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals, LLC.
DOI: 10.1002/HBM.70444

Neural and behavioral similarity-driven tuning curves for manipulable objects

Author(s): Daniela Valério, André Peres, Fredrik Bergström, Philipp Seidel, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/IMAG_A_00482

Object-directed action representations are componentially built in parietal cortex

Author(s): Leyla Roksan Caglar, Jon Walbrin, Emefa Akwayena, Jorge Almeida, Bradford Z. Mahon
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2421032122

Fine-grained knowledge about manipulable objects is well-predicted by CLIP

Author(s): Walbrin, J., Sossounov, N., Mahdiani, M., Vaz, I., & Almeida, J.
Published in: iScience, 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110297

Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions

Author(s): Bradford Z. Mahon, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA.2024.108841

Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: the topographical organization of manipulable object information

Author(s): J. Almeida, S. Kristensen, Z. Tal, A. Fracasso
Published in: BioRxiv, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.29.568856