SISSA is an elite postgraduate research institution for Maths, Physics and Neuroscience, located in Trieste, Italy. The Cognitive Neuroscience Department hosts 7 research labs that study the neuronal bases of time and magnitude processing, visual perception, motivation and intelligence, language and reading, tactile perception and learning, and neural computation. The Department is highly interdisciplinary; our approaches include behavioural, psychophysics, and neurophysiological experiments with humans and animals, as well as computational, statistical and mathematical models.