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Society for Neuroscience 2025
Nov. 19, 2025—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. Several MELD consortium members presented...
Congratulations to Marion Décaillet (CHUV) for completed her PhD thesis!
Nov. 19, 2025—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 (see below). Tovar, D. A.,...
Congratulations to Grace Kurian (CHUV) for completing her MD thesis!
Nov. 19, 2025—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., & Murray, M. M. (2025)....
Congratulations to Asa Kucinkas (CHUV) for completing his MD Masters thesis!
Nov. 19, 2025—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, September 3). Learning visual-to-auditory sensory...
Helene Vitali Receives SfN Trainee Professional Development Award
Aug. 20, 2025—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 Neuroscience 2025 Conference in San Diego,...
First Two Consortium Manuscripts Published
Aug. 17, 2025—August 11, 2025 The Consortium’s second manuscript was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience by Tommaso Bartolini, a graduate student in the lab of Monica Gori, PhD. The review article examines how children with visual impairments develop interceptive skills despite lacking visual cues that typically support coordination, play, and social interaction. By synthesizing existing research...
The International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) 2025
Aug. 15, 2025—The International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) 2025 Durham, UK from July 15th-18th, 2025 The International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) provides a platform for scientists from around the world to highlight research investigating the neural processes across multiple sensory modalities and their impact on perception and behavior. Several members of the MELD consortium presented at the...
Bridging Neuroscience and Innovation: Spotlight on Monica Gori
Aug. 22, 2024—Monica Gori, Consortium PI at the Italian Institute of Technology, was featured in the Feburary 2024 issue of Current Biology, where she shares her pioneering research in multisensory perception and visual disability. Blending psychological insight with technological innovation, Gori and her team study how children with visual impairments perceive and engage with the world around...