Katarzyna Raczy
@katarzynaraczy.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist, interested in neuroplasticity after permanent and transient congenital visual deprivation 🧠 Neural mechanisms of tactile reading 👆 and numerical cognition 🔢
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🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the 24th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2026)!
📍 Genova, Italy
🗓️ June 24–27, 2026
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹
📍 Genova, Italy
🗓️ June 24–27, 2026
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the 24th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2026)!
📍 Genova, Italy
🗓️ June 24–27, 2026
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹
📍 Genova, Italy
🗓️ June 24–27, 2026
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
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(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
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October 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS
How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system
is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #haptics
The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals - Biology of Sex Differences
There is contradictory evidence on the effect that visual experience has on haptic abilities. Indeed, some studies have documented that a lack of vision (blindness) results in decreased haptic percept...
bsd.biomedcentral.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #haptics
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Decoding semantic sound categories in early visual cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... "semantic and categorical sound information is represented in early visual cortex, potentially used to predict visual input"; #neuroscience
August 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Decoding semantic sound categories in early visual cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... "semantic and categorical sound information is represented in early visual cortex, potentially used to predict visual input"; #neuroscience
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
It's a wrap!
We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").
We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").
July 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's a wrap!
We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").
We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").
What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉
Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
July 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉
Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Symposia 3 and 4: what blindness reveals about brain organisation (Raczy, Stroh) and metacognition in mutlisensory decision-making (Noppeney) are on now. Such interesting topics and talks! 🤩 #IMRF2025
July 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Symposia 3 and 4: what blindness reveals about brain organisation (Raczy, Stroh) and metacognition in mutlisensory decision-making (Noppeney) are on now. Such interesting topics and talks! 🤩 #IMRF2025
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social
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Thrilled to be attending the #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social in beautiful Durham this week! I'll be presenting in Symposium 3 on Wednesday at 11:00, kindly organized by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and @lenastroh.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! 🧠
July 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thrilled to be attending the #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social in beautiful Durham this week! I'll be presenting in Symposium 3 on Wednesday at 11:00, kindly organized by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and @lenastroh.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! 🧠
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IMRF folks, we are ready for you!
We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am).
Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow
Your organising team
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am).
Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow
Your organising team
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
IMRF folks, we are ready for you!
We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am).
Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow
Your organising team
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am).
Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow
Your organising team
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
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Got any job openings/PhD positions in your #multisensory research labs? Let us know by tagging us - we are happy to share it with the community
June 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Got any job openings/PhD positions in your #multisensory research labs? Let us know by tagging us - we are happy to share it with the community
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
New to IMRF? Or just not sure what to do on the evening before the conference? 🙌
Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends!
Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕
maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...
Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends!
Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕
maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...
July 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New to IMRF? Or just not sure what to do on the evening before the conference? 🙌
Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends!
Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕
maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...
Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends!
Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕
maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
There is still ~2 weeks time to sign up for one of our exciting pre-conference methods workshops:
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
As part of this year's conference, we are excited to offer three amazing methods workshops run *by* and *for* the multisensory community: Focusing on behavioural, neural, and computational methods🕹️🧠📈
More information and the sign-up link can be found here imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
More information and the sign-up link can be found here imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
June 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There is still ~2 weeks time to sign up for one of our exciting pre-conference methods workshops:
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
www.biorxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
I'm particularly happy to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions and category selectivity. The idea:Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning.
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
www.biorxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm particularly happy to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions and category selectivity. The idea:Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning.
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
If you use PsychoPy we would be very grateful for 5-15 mins of your time to complete this survey 🙏🏼
📣 Seeking participants for a short survey
2 years on from our first survey we’re keen to know if the community has changed at all. Whether or not you participated last time, please take a few minutes, whatever your background, to help us understand our community🙏
run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...
2 years on from our first survey we’re keen to know if the community has changed at all. Whether or not you participated last time, please take a few minutes, whatever your background, to help us understand our community🙏
run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...
Pavlovia Survey 2024.1.0
run.pavlovia.org
June 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you use PsychoPy we would be very grateful for 5-15 mins of your time to complete this survey 🙏🏼
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Happy Friday Multisensory pals,
the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
International Multisensory Research Forum - Sciencesconf.org
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy Friday Multisensory pals,
the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
New paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
May 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Phonological representations of auditory & visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but their location and nature remain unclear" so an fMRI study
Phonological representations of auditory and visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond
Speech is a multisensory signal that can be extracted from the voice and the lips. Previous studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but th...
www.jneurosci.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Phonological representations of auditory & visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but their location and nature remain unclear" so an fMRI study
Very much looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues and to sharing some great ideas! 🤩🧠
Hi pals,
our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
April 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Very much looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues and to sharing some great ideas! 🤩🧠
Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy
Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠
March 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠