Research Lines

- Spatial encoding of sound pitch (music perception). Imagine you are listening to a piece of music that fluctuates between high- and low-pitched tones. Now, try to simulate this fluctuation by moving your arm up and down. If everything worked as expected, your upward movements mostly went along with the high tones and your downward movements with low ones. Perceiving music could not only consist on organizing sounds 'in time', but also 'in space'.

- Perceptual mechanisms of temporal realignment. The aim of this project is to describe the mechanisms that allow our brain to re-synchronize multisensory signals that arrive to us asynchronously (e.g., due to the fact that sound and light do not travel at the same speed).

- We are leading a multidisciplinary group (including psychologists, designers, culinary scientists, nutritionists, and oncologists) to achieve a fundamental goal: To reduce sensory and eating disorders in children undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

- We collaborate with other research groups to develop subtle measures of cognitive deficits. We have also been part of an European consortium (FocusLocus) to develop new gamified tools to improve certain cognitive functions (e.g., in children with ADHD).