MELD Publications

MELD publications will be added as the consortium’s projects progress.

Data gathered by the consortium in pursuit of their mission will be made publicly available as the science progresses. Please stay tuned to this website where we will have a link to the annotated data, which will collectively be referenced as the MIND MELD dataset.

Italian Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator – Monica Gori, PhD

Conference abstracts

• Dynamic interaction between active and passive movement and temporal perception in childhood. Vitali H., Amadeo M.B., Sturlese M., Riberto M., Bertolasi J., Vitale A., Lewkowicz D.J., Murray M.M, Wallace M.T., Gori M. IMRF 2025, Talk.
• Building Multisensory Experience: The Role of Sensory Interaction in Development and Accessible Technology. Gori M. IMRF 2025, Keynote talk. 
• Sensory timing discrimination during interceptive movements. Bartolini T., Riberto M., Vitali H., Vannucci F., Campus C., Gori M. International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) 2025, poster.
• The influence of speed on sensory timing discrimination during active and passive movements. Sturlese M., Vitali H., Riberto M., Vannucci F., Campus C., Gori M. International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) 2025, poster.
• Gori M. Multisensory Integration and Sensory Interaction during the Development. Presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 31st Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024; Toronto, Canada. https://www.cogneurosociety.org/documents/CNS_2024_Program_Booklet.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.  
• Vitali H, Bollini A, Campus C, Gori M. Cross modal attention through the three sensory modalities in human adults: an EEG study. Poster presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 31st Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024; Toronto, Canada. https://www.cogneurosociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CNS_2024_Abstract_Book.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.  
• Gori M. Haptic development and multisensory processing: Basic science and technology. Presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.

Yale University
Principal Investigators – David Lewkowicz, PhD, and Nick Turk-Browne, PhD

Conference abstracts

• Lewkowicz D. The Multisensory Cocktail Party Problem (MCPP): Perceptual Segregation and Integration of Multisensory Inputs Develops Gradually. Presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 31st Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024; Toronto, Canada. https://www.cogneurosociety.org/documents/CNS_2024_Program_Booklet.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.

University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne
Principal Investigator – Micah Murray, PhD

Conference abstracts

• Murray, MM (May 25-28, 2025) Low-level multisensory processes: from the impact of early life experience to the prediction of higher-order cognition (invited talk) The Adaptive Brain: Development, Learning, and Learning Disorders. Ascona, Switzerland
• Murray M. Low-Level Multisensory Processes: From the Impact of Early Life Experience to the Prediction of Higher-Order Cognition. Presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 31st Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024; Toronto, Canada. https://www.cogneurosociety.org/documents/CNS_2024_Program_Booklet.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.
• Favre J. Human movement biomechanics: How can we get inspiration from other disciplines? Presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.

Vanderbilt University
Consortium Principal Investigator – Mark T. Wallace, PhD
Principal Investigator – David Tovar, MD, PhD

Manuscripts

• Tovar, D. A., Waston, M. R., Lewkowicz, D. J., Gori, M., Murray, M. M. & Wallace, M. T. (2025). CART: The Comprehensive Analysis of Reaction Times GUI for Multisensory Processes and Race Models. Multisensory Research (in press)

Conference abstracts

• Hu, Y., Zhao, S. C., Lee, J., Machado, A., Wallace, M., & Tovar, D. (2025, July 15–18). Mirroring the multisensory brain: Fine-tuning multimodal AI with human embeddings [Conference presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Tiesman, A.J., Stoyanova, K., Ramachandran, R., & Wallace, M.T. (2025, July 15–18). Increase in visual reliability enhances judgments of audiovisual motion [Conference presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Wallace, M. (2025, July 15–18). From Single Neurons to Immersive Environments: A Multisensory Scientist’s Journey [Conference presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Quackenbush, W. J., Cascio, C. J., & Wallace, M. T. (2025, July 15-18). Active Multisensing Framework for Motor Stereotypies in Autism and Neurotypical Development [Poster presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Srinivasan, H., Cascio, C. J., & Wallace, M. T. (2025, July 15-18). Virtual Bubbles, Real Insights: A Novel Approach to Mapping Peripersonal Space in Autism and Development. [Poster presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Stoyanova, K., Tiesman, A.J., Ramachandran, R., & Wallace, M.T. (2025, July 15–18). Does prior trial information influence the perception of audiovisual motion? [Conference presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Wallace, MT (May 25-28, 2025) From the Lab to Immersive Environments: Studies of Multisensory Processes in Increasingly Naturalistic Settings (invited talk). The Adaptive Brain: Development, Learning, and Learning Disorders. Ascona, Switzerland
• Watson, M. R., Mansouri, S., Rosencrantz, S., King, M., Goyal, S., Stein, G., Tovar, D., Wallace, M. Validating the spatial fidelity of three-dimensional auditory simulation in a virtual audiovisual cave environment [Conference presentation]. 23rd International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2025), Durham, United Kingdom
• Wallace MT, Tovar D. Multisensory Temporal Development in Autism: Contributions to the Broader Phenotype. Presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 31st Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024; Toronto, Canada. https://www.cogneurosociety.org/documents/CNS_2024_Program_Booklet.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024. 
• Wallace MT. Immersive Environments for Studying Multisensory Development. Presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.   
• Watson MR. Tools to develop, control, and analyze dynamic, immersive multisensory experiments. Presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.  
• Tovar D. Generative AI and cognitive science: Unifying sensory modalities in latent spaces. Presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.  
• Srinavasan H, Wallace MT. Navigating the Near: VR investigations of peripersonal space in autism. Poster presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf. Accessed November 23, 2024.  
• Tiesman A, Ramachandran R, Wallace MT. Stimulus statistics contributing to the integration of motion cues in humans. Poster presented at: 22nd International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, 2024; Reno, Nevada, USA. https://imrf2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IMRF_Program_2024_FINAL_5.pdf.
  Accessed November 23, 2024.