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. 📨[email protected]

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.... @mrgbcn.bsky.social

👉 ** Job announcement! ** 👩‍🔬 If you're interested in working as an RA with us, get in touch 📨 [email protected]. 🧐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: [email protected]. 🔊 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 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...

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! @mrgbcn.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 🙏

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

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...

📢 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