2017-present: Director of ACAP; 2013-present: CTO Braingaze SL; 2009-2014: Director of the VISCA lab; 2005-present: Research Professor, ICREA; 2005-present: Assistant professor University of Barcelona; 2002-2005: Head of the Vision and Cognition-II group, NIN, KNAW, The Netherlands; 1999-2001: Senior postdoc, NIN, NWO, The Netherlands; 1997-1999: Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dr. V. Lamme, NORI, The Netherlands; 1992-1996: PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr. E. Soriano, University of Barcelona.
I started my scientific journey by studying the ontogenetic and evolutionary development of the cerebral cortex to get a grasp of the immense complexity of the cortex. To learn about the functional organization of the neocortex, I continued my research studying system neurophysiology in awake, behaving monkeys and neural circuit dynamics using computer simulations. In 2011 we discovered a novel eye movement in cognitive processing. We termed it Cognitive Vergence. The use of Cognitive Vergence has been patented worldwide, and I founded the start-up company (Braingaze) in 2013. End 2017 I started the centre ACAP at the UB where graduate and master students can carry out clinical work using Cognitive Vergence. Currently, my research investigates 1) the neural mechanism of dynamic neural interactions, 2) the function of Cognitive Vergence in visual cognition, 3) clinical applications of Cognitive Vergence in early diagnosis of mental pathology being ADHD, Alzheimer, ASD, Dyslexia, 4) interactive eye-tracking games to train cognitive behaviour. Methods we use are computational spiking networks, eye tracking, machine learning, and psychophysics.
– Lerer, Alejandro; Super, Hans; Keil, Matthias S. 2021, ‘Dynamic decorrelation as a unifying principle for explaining a broad range of brightness phenomena’, Plos Computational Biology, 17, 4, e1007907.
– Puig, Maria Sole; Romeo, August; Super, Hans 2021, ‘Vergence eye movements during figure-ground perception’, Consciousness And Cognition, 92, 103138.
– Carolina Jimenez, Elizabeth; Sierra-Marcos, Alba; Romeo, August; Hashemi, Amin; Leonovych, Oleksii; Bustos Valenzuela, Patricia; Sole Puig, Maria; Super, Hans 2021, ‘Altered Vergence Eye Movements and Pupil Response of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment During an Oddball Task’, Journal Of Alzheimers Disease, 82, 1, 421 – 433.
– Jiménez EC, Avella-Garcia C, Kustow J, Cubbin S, Corrales M, Richarte V, Esposito FL, Morata I, Perera A, Varela P, Cañete J, Faraone SV, Supèr H, Ramos-Quiroga JA 2021.’Eye Vergence Responses During an Attention Task in Adults With ADHD and Clinical Controls.’ J Atten Disord. 25(9):1302-1310.
