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Soto-Faraco, Salvador
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Humanities
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I graduated in psychology at the Universitat de Barcelona (1994), where I also completed a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (1999). Thereafter, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher, first at Oxford University and later at University of British Columbia (Canada). In 2002 I was awarded a Ramon y Cajal research fellowship, which allowed me to start my own research group at Universitat de Barcelona. In 2005 I became ICREA Research Professor, and established the Multisensory Research Group at the Parc Científic de Barcelona. Since 2009, I am based at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, combining research, teaching and an associate editorship of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
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Research Interests
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Humans, like other animals, are endowed with a wide range of sensory systems such as hearing, touch, vision, smell and taste. This rich variety of senses allows our brains to represent the surrounding world with fidelity and precision, so that we can select, react to and, store, information successfully. However, to achieve unitary and coherent mental representations our brains must coordinate the distinct sources of sensory information effectively across their different temporal dynamics, spatial coordinate systems, and encoding formats. I am interested in the neural mechanisms and behavioral principles underlying the integration of multi-sensory information. I use an experimental approach based on psychophysics, the study of neurological patients, neural stimulation (TMS), and measurements of neural activity such as electrophysiology (ERPs) or hemodynamics (fMRI).
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KeyWords
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Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Attention; Perception; Multisensory Integration; Speech Perception; Touch; Vision; Audition; Body Representation
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