Multisensory Research Group (MRG)

a black box that says useless box on the top Alt: This is a version of the useless machine, a concept that dates back from the 1950's. It is a device that switches itself off as soon as you push the lever to switch it on. But, what if the machine switched itself off even before, just as soon as you thought of pushing that lever?

Marvin Minsky popularised the 'useless' machine. Want to help us build a 'useless' 🤖 Brain Computer Interface? If you have an Engineering, CS, and/or ML background, apply for a PhD with us tinyurl.com/4e38tmsz Machines that frustrate humans can teach us a great deal. 📨applications.MRGLab@gmail.com

Binocular Rivalry: Evaluating the Role of Theta Power as a Neural Index of Conflict We report evidence for the involvement of cognitive conflict mechanisms (detection and resolution via functional inhibition of irrelevant information) during binocular rivalry. These dynamics were re...

Happy 2026! We start the year by evaluating the role of theta activity in conflict in the absence of report confounds. Here you can find the link to the paper, the dataset and analysis code: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

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👉 ** Job announcement! ** 👩‍🔬

If you're interested in working as an RA with us, get in touch 📨 applications.MRG@gmail.com.

🧐read job description and check requirements (#important 😅) here 🌐 www.upf.edu/web/mrg/home...

📢 Beatriu de Pinos 👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓 postdoctoral grants 2025.

Interested in multisensory research? Apply with us!! Please do ➡️ check 🔎 if you meet the elegibility criteria.
Our web: www.upf.edu/web/mrg
Email: applications.MRGLab@gmail.com.

🔊 Call info: agaur.gencat.cat/en/beques-i-...

💥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

📢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:
lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u...

#EEG #Neuroscience

PhD in Information and Communication Technologies - Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship

👋 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...

Multisensory congruence effects in episodic memory

Multisensory congruence effects in short-term and working memory

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

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

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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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/

Paper_summary

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 🙏

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

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

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

<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...

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

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

🎉🎉 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

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...

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.

📢 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