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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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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Sep 3

👋 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

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking for an RA, please distribute and/or get in touch! See details in attachment.

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · May 27

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!

@mrgbcn.bsky.social

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks for the great collaboration @lmatyjek.bsky.social @sotarokita.bsky.social @mireiatorralba.bsky.social and truly satisfying scientific process. I hope it is useful to the world; we leave an EEG dataset of neurotypical and autistic adults doing a multisensory a task: osf.io/2b6s3/

Multisensory Integration of Speech and Gestures in Neurotypical and Autistic Adults

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · Apr 30

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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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Great paper, thank you @mireiatorralba.bsky.social @amartimarca.bsky.social and Marti Papai

Pleasure to collaborate with this group; more papers to come soon !! @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social @cbc-upf.bsky.social

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mireiatorralba.bsky.social @mireiatorralba.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Mar 19

🎉🎉 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

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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Multisensory Research Group (MRG) @mrgbcn.bsky.social · Feb 25

📢 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.

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