Research interests
I am interested in multisensory perception and attention in humans. Like many other animals, humans are endowed with a wide range of sensory capacities such as hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling and so on. This rich variety of senses allows our brains to represent the surrounding environment with fidelity and precision, so that we can parse information, maintain it as memories, make decisions, and plan and carry out actions. However, to achieve coherent mental representations our brains must coordinate the distinct sources of sensory information effectively across their different temporal scales, spatial frames of reference, and representational formats. I am interested in the neural and behavioural principles underlying the selection, integration and representation of such multisensory information. To achieve this, I use experimental approaches based on psychophysics, a variety of neuroimaging methods to measure neural activity (EEG, fMRI), and brain stimulation techniques (TMS).
Selected publications
– Barbosa J, Stein H, Zorowitz S, Niv Y, Summerfield C, Soto-Faraco S & Hyafil A 2023, ‘A practical guide for studying human behavior in the lab‘, Behavior Research Methods, 55, 58-76.
– Esparza-Iaizzo M, Vigue-Guix I, Ruzzoli M, Torralba-Cuello M & Soto-Faraco S 2023, ‘Long-Range a-Synchronization as Control Signal for BCI: A Feasibility Study‘, Eneuro, 10, 3.
– Marti-Marca A, Vilà-Balló A, Cerda-Company X, et al. 2023, ‘Exploring sensory sensitivity, cortical excitability, and habituation in episodic migraine, as a function of age and disease severity, using the pattern-reversal task‘, Journal Of Headache And Pain, 24, 1, 104.