Welcome to the MRG laboratory

ABOUT US

The Mutisensory Research Group (MRG) is part of the Cognition and Brain Centre, Department of Communication and Information Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

AIM To understand the neural and cognitive basis of human perception and attention processes in multisensory environments. That is, how our brain organizes, represents, and selects the information that arrives from the different sensory modalities (audition, somatosensation, vision, olfaction, etc).

APPROACH To study multisensory interactions in a wide range of perceptual domains (from speech perception to body representation), using a variety of scientific approaches (from psychophysics to neuroimaging). The questions we address focus on basic as well as on applied problems.

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Talk by Prof. Valerie Hazan

Fri, 17/05/2013 - 12:00
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PEOPLE

(left to right) Philip Jaeckl, Ana Luísa Pesquita, Maya Visser, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Alexis Pérez Bellido, Carolina Sánchez García, Nara Ikumi, Karla Camacho, Elena Azañón Gracia, Emmanuel Biau.

LOCATION & CONTACTS

Address: Dept. de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C\ Tanger, 122-140, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

E-mail:
Phone : +3493 542 1855
Fax : +34 93 542 2517

RESEARCH


	Attention and multisensory integration Can your attention state modulate the outcome multi-sensory integration?
	Cross-modal attention in neurological patients How is attention oriented when spatial representations break down?
	Multisensory contributions to motion perception Why should we trust our eyes more than our ears when crossing the street?
	Multisensory contributions to speech perception Why understating someone can get much better if we can see them?
	Psychophysical investigations of auditory-visual sensory integration Can a sound make a light look brigther?
	The representation of tactile space How does our brain refer tactile sensations on the skin to our extra-personal space?

FACILITIES

The MRG shares with other groups of the Cognition and Brain Centre the facilities of the Neuroscience Laboratories. In these laboratories different studies take place related with language, memory and attention and, depending on the type of study, take part on them adult subjects, children or babies.

The techniques available are varied:

Conductuals: where subjects reply via keyboard or microphone to the visual and/or auditory stimuli
Evoked potentials: where the reaction of the brain is studied using electroencephalogram registers.
EyeTracker: where it is observed what and/or during how long subjects are looking at.
Multisensorials: where subjects receive different stimuli (tactile, visual, auditory) at the same time.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): non-invasive brain stimulation.

FUNDING

Our research projects are funded by public and private sources including:

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
Departament d' Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (DURSI)
European Research Council (ERC).

Third header photo (left to right) authored by Marta Casellas(