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Multisensory Research Group (MRG)
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The Multisensory Research Group (MRG) is part of the Center for Brain and Cognition at @UPF.edu. We study the neural and cognitive bases of human perception and attention.
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wendelvandersluis.bsky.social
💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥
Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating.
TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal...
@virginievanw.bsky.social @multisensoryres.bsky.social @mrgbcn.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @uva.nl
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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lmatyjek.bsky.social
📢New preprint:

𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺
medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @mireiatorralba.bsky.social, and Claudia Alvarez Martin

🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words:
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#EEG #Neuroscience
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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
👋 PhD opportunities for African women in STEM 👩‍🎓. Check it out 👀, distribute 📨, and get in touch ✍️with us www.upf.edu/web/mrg if interested. www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...
PhD in Information and Communication Technologies - Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship
www.upf.edu
September 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
Are Crossmodal Memories Better?🔊+📷=🧠🤔 Check out this systematic review + meta-analyses covering 30 years of evidence, interpretations, and methodologies. OA👉 doi.org/10.1037/bul0... Written four hands by S. Soto-Faraco & C. Spence for Psych. Bull. @cbc-upf.bsky.social @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social
Multisensory congruence effects in episodic memory Multisensory congruence effects in short-term and working memory
July 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
Looking for an RA, please distribute and/or get in touch! See details in attachment.
June 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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lmatyjek.bsky.social
We're looking for a PhD candidate for a project investigating neural synchrony in #autism at @upf.edu ! 🎓

📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain
📅 Duration: 3–4 years, starting Winter term 2025/26
🔍 About the project & application: See attachment 👇

Please share with anyone interested!

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May 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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lmatyjek.bsky.social
Autistic and neurotypical adults use different neural mechanisms to integrate AV speech, but benefit equally in word recognition 🧠

📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/
@mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏
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April 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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mireiatorralba.bsky.social
Very happy to share our last publication
You can find the paper in Cerebral Cortex website or check the preprint in: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@mrgbcn.bsky.social @amartimarca.bsky.social @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social
Single-trial characterization of frontal theta and parietal alpha oscillatory episodes during spatial navigation in humans
Abstract. Theoretical proposals and empirical findings both highlight the relevance of theta brain oscillations in human spatial navigation. However, whils
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April 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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lmatyjek.bsky.social
I'm happy to share that our paper on social motion preference in autistic adults with Salva Soto Farco @mrgbcn.bsky.social and Nico Bast is now published in Psychophysiology: doi.org/10.1111/psyp... 🎉

Find a summary of the study below 👇

@upf.edu @humboldtuni.bsky.social
#autism #research
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study provides novel evidence of persistent atypical-looking preferences and heightened pupillary responses to social versus geometric motion in autistic compared to non-autistic adults. Our res...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
Lower preference for social motion in autism persists into adulhood. Two experiments reporting looking time and pupilometry measures on austistic and non-autistic adults published in doi.org/10.1111/psyp.... Thanks @lmatyjek.bsky.social & Nico Bast @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social @cbc-upf.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
🎉🎉 congrats @lmatyjek.bsky.social for the La Caixa Junior Leader fellowship!! Amazing! Looking forward to work together again! 🚀 @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
If you want to do a PhD developing a VR-based BCI, here's a funding opportunity. We seek people with strong background in ML 👉 www.upf.edu/web/etic/con...
March 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
mrgbcn.bsky.social
📢 Crossmodal Memories are remembered better. Two days old events, large N and stimulus set, varying distributions, and ages.

Free for you in Memory&Cognition: rdcu.be/eaC1u
Data+scripts available at osf.io/45m76 .

You're welcome 🙂,
Pau Packard & Salvador Soto-Faraco
Retrieval performance for crossmodally conruent (green) and incongruent (orange) audiovisual events of different categories, two days after having experienced them. Each dot, a subject. Plotted with JASP.
February 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM