Speaker Series

Stephanie Badde co-hosts a speaker series on multisensory perception and plasticity with Petra Vetter from the University of Fribourg. The talks are online and open to the public.

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Previous Speakers

Aaron Seitz | University of California, Riverside
Applications of Multisensory Facilitation of Learning

Christoph Kayser | Bielefeld University
How multisensory perception is shaped by causal inference and serial effects

Marina Bedny | Johns Hopkins University
Insights into nature/nurture from blindness & cultural skills

Olivier Collignon | UC Louvain, University of Trento
Brain (re)organization and sensory deprivation: Recycling the multisensory scaffolding of functional brain networks

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham | Carnegie Mellon University
Networks for multi-sensory attention and working memory

Mark Wallace | Vanderbilt University
Clinical, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Insights into Multisensory Processes

Uta Noppeney | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
The neural dynamics of causal inference across the cortical hierarchy

Ella Striem-Amit | Georgetown University
Experience-independent brain development in perception and action systems

Monica Gori | Italian Institute of Technology
Science and technology to understand developmental multisensory processing

Brigitte Röder | University of Hamburg
Multisensory development and the role of visual experience

Olaf Blanke | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Multisensory self in spatial navigation

Karin Petrini | University of Bath
Music training effects on multisensory and cross-sensory transfer processing: from cross-sectional to RCT studies

Michael Beauchamp | University of Pennsylvania
Multisensory speech perception

Marc Ernst | Ulm University
Plasticity and learning in multisensory perception for action 

Michael Proulx | University of Bath
Seeing with technology: Exchanging the senses with sensory substitution and augmentation

Ione Fine | University of Washington
Do you hear what I see: Auditory motion processing in blind individuals

Steven Lomber | McGill University
What is the function of auditory cortex when it develops in the absence of acoustic input?

David Lewkowicz | Haskins Labs & Yale Child Study Center
Development of multisensory perception and attention and their role in audiovisual speech processing

Krish Sathian | Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University
Perceptual and neural basis of sound-symbolic crossmodal correspondences

Salvador Soto-Faraco | Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Conflict in Multisensory Perception

Jennifer Groh | Duke University
Space and its computational challenges

Jennifer Bizley | University College London
How does seeing help listening? Audiovisual integration in Auditory Cortex 

Petra Vetter | University of Fribourg
Decoding sounds in early visual cortex of sighted and blind individuals

Fiona Newell | Trinity College Dublin
What happens to our ability to perceive multisensory information as we age?

Elisa Raffaella Ferre | Birkbeck, University of London
The vestibular system: a multimodal sense

Claudia Lunghi | Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Ecole Normale Supérieure & CNRS, Paris, France
Visual and cross-modal plasticity in adult humans

Laurence Harris | Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto
The effect of gravity on the perception of distance and self-motion: a multisensory perspective

Maria Concetta Morrone | University of Pisa
Rhythms in perception: action planning and behavioral oscillations

Roberta Klatzky | Carnegie Mellon University
Object recognition by touch and other senses

Amir Amedi | IDC Israel & Sorbonne University
Healing the brain via multisensory technologies and using these technologies to better understand the brain

Holly Bridge | University of Oxford
Reorganisation of the human visual system in the absence of light input

Micah Murray | The Sense Innovation and Research Center, Lausanne and Sion, Switzerland; Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
The Multisensory Scaffold for Perception and Rehabilitation

Jeff Yau | Baylor College of Medicine
Multisensory interactions in temporal frequency processing

David Burr | University of Florence
The multimodal number sense: spanning space, time, sensory modality, and action

Benjamin A. Rowland | Wake Forest School of Medicine
Using multisensory plasticity to rehabilitate vision

Marko Nardini | Durham University
Multisensory perception with newly learned sensory skills

Viola Störmer | Dartmouth College
Multisensory influences on vision: Sounds enhance and alter visual-perceptual processing

Serge Dumoulin | Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
A vision of numerical cognition

Lotfi Merabet | Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Visual Perception in Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)

Janina Seubert | Karolinska Institute
Multisensory processing of anticipatory and consummatory food cues

Barry E. Stein | Wake Forest School of Medicine
How the brain uses experience to construct its multisensory capabilities

Katharina von Kriegstein | Technical University Dresden
Learning with multimodal enrichment

Paul MacNeilage | University of Nevada, Reno
Visual-vestibular cue comparison for perception of environmental stationarity

Andrea Serino | University Hospital of Lausanne
Multisensory integration in peripersonal space (PPS) for action, perception and consciousness

Ladan Shams | UCLA
Multisensory perception, learning, and memory

Hans Colonius | Oldenburg University
Measures and models of multisensory integration in reaction times

Lore Thaler | Durham University
Human Echolocation for Localization and Navigation – Behaviour and Brain Mechanisms

Velia Cardin | UCL
Executive functions in the brain of deaf individuals – sensory and language effects

Mathew Diamond | International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
This decision matters: Sorting out the variables that lead to a single choice

Sharon Gilad-Gutnick | MIT
Vision Unveiled: Understanding Face Perception in Children Treated for Congenital Blindness

Santani Teng | Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Dynamics of braille letter perception in blind readers