Vanderbilt University

Senior Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center Email Lab Website David J. Lewkowicz is a developmental psychobiologist. He earned his BA from Brandeis University in 1974 and a PhD in biopsychology from the City University of New York in 1979. Read More

Full Professor, Department of Radiology Email Lab Website Micah M. Murray is an American-Swiss neuroscientist. He earned a double BA from The Johns Hopkins University in 1995. In 2002, he received his PhD with honors in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,… Read More

Senior Research Scientist Head of Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP) laboratory Email Lab Website     Monica Gori is a tenured senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where she leads the Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP) laboratory. Her lab comprises 12… Read More

Movement can alter the perception of time in a multisensory environment. However, how the movement has an influence during development was not yet investigated comparing directly active and passive movement. Here, we evaluate how the temporal binding window is altered by active and passive movement. Haptic devices will be used… Read More

Louise B. McGavock Chair of Neuroscience Professor of Psychology Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Email Lab Website Mark T. Wallace is the holder of the Louise B. McGavock Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. He is Professor… Read More

Society for Neuroscience 2025 San Diego, USA from November 15th-19th, 2025 Neuroscience 2025 will feature lectures, symposia, and events for scientists at all career stages. Sessions and events at the annual meeting are designed to provide attendees with a range of opportunities, including scientific enrichment, career development, and professional networking. Read More

Marion Décaillet, a PhD student with Prof. Micah Murray at CHUV, successfully completed her thesis in August 2025, which was titled Multimodal neuro-assessment after adverse neonatal events in the context of prematurity and perinatal asphyxia with encephalopathy. Her work contributed to our GUI for multisensory processes and race models manuscript… Read More

Grace Kurian, a medical student at CHUV, successfully completed her thesis with Prof. Micah Murray in May 2025. Her work has contributed to our understanding of motion perception and perceptual completion, which was recently accepted as a manuscript at NeuroImage (see below). Kurian, G. S., Retsa, C., Wallace, M. T.,… Read More

Asa Kucinkas, a medical masters student with Prof. Micah Murray at CHUV, successfully completed his thesis in April 2025. His work has contributed to our understanding of image-to-sound mapping. A pre-print can be found below. Kucinkas, A., Retsa, C., Meijer, P., Wallace, M., Gori, M., & Murray, M. M. (2025,… Read More

Huge congratulations to Helene Vitali, PhD, for receiving the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). Helene, a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in the Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP) under Monica Gori, PhD, has been awarded $2,500 to support her attendance at the… Read More