1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!
"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?
🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?
🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!
"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?
🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?
🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
10/ Our results show topographically organised, stream-specific routing of crossmodal signals. Crossmodal information is selectively routed according to the organising principles of the target area. This structured connectivity enables the spatially coherent integration of multisensory information.
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
10/ Our results show topographically organised, stream-specific routing of crossmodal signals. Crossmodal information is selectively routed according to the organising principles of the target area. This structured connectivity enables the spatially coherent integration of multisensory information.
Diversity matters. Multi-task, multisensory, crossmodal.
🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization.
But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture?
We tested this directly.
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But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture?
We tested this directly.
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March 11, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Diversity matters. Multi-task, multisensory, crossmodal.
A week of inspiring research & exciting chats with new and old friends at #IMRF2025! Presented our latest work on visuotactile crossmodal congruency effect in children 👾
Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡
Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡
July 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A week of inspiring research & exciting chats with new and old friends at #IMRF2025! Presented our latest work on visuotactile crossmodal congruency effect in children 👾
Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡
Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡
New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
New review/theory/argumentative paper is out: "The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences".
The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity.
Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity.
Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
@bodowinter.bsky.social has a comprehensive review out. I really enjoyed reading it. There is an old debate on acoustic or articulatory targets and Bodo masters this very well. pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences
Onomatopoeias like hiss and peep are iconic because their forms resemble their meanings. Iconicity can also involve forms and meanings in different modalities,
pubs.aip.org
April 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New review/theory/argumentative paper is out: "The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences".
The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity.
Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity.
Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Move over bouba-kiki!
New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.
The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".
#iconicity 🐦🐦
New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.
The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".
#iconicity 🐦🐦
The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. In this study
pubs.aip.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Move over bouba-kiki!
New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.
The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".
#iconicity 🐦🐦
New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.
The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".
#iconicity 🐦🐦
Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment www.nature.com/articles/s41... "externally induced pre-stimulus alpha entrainment boosts audiovisual associative encoding"; #crossmodal #multisensory #neuroscience
Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment - Scientific Reports
The state of neural dynamics prior to the presentation of an external stimulus significantly influences its subsequent processing. This neural preparatory mechanism might be of particular importance f...
www.nature.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment www.nature.com/articles/s41... "externally induced pre-stimulus alpha entrainment boosts audiovisual associative encoding"; #crossmodal #multisensory #neuroscience
We’re delighted to have collaboration with Somerville College & Crossmodal Research Lab @ox.ac.uk Wednesday 19 th Febr 6 pm Immersive MR with live Piano performance! @dreamr.art @madshaahr.bsky.social @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We’re delighted to have collaboration with Somerville College & Crossmodal Research Lab @ox.ac.uk Wednesday 19 th Febr 6 pm Immersive MR with live Piano performance! @dreamr.art @madshaahr.bsky.social @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social
Hi bluesky community, first frew days here, so I thought it’d be a good idea to share our recent review with Valeria Vinogradova: 'Crossmodal plasticity, sensory experience and cognition' oxfordre.com/neuroscience...
November 8, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Hi bluesky community, first frew days here, so I thought it’d be a good idea to share our recent review with Valeria Vinogradova: 'Crossmodal plasticity, sensory experience and cognition' oxfordre.com/neuroscience...
Deafness rapidly reorganizes functional brain networks in adult mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "Sensory loss triggers crossmodal reorganization across sensory modalities, and accumulating evidence indicates that this adaptive capacity persists into adulthood." #neuroscience
Deafness rapidly reorganizes functional brain networks in adult mice
Sensory loss triggers crossmodal reorganization across sensory modalities, and accumulating evidence indicates that this adaptive capacity persists into adulthood. However, the global organizing principles of such plasticity remain poorly understood, as conventional animal model approaches do not permit longitudinal, whole-brain measurements. Here, we use ultra-high-field (15.2T) BOLD fMRI to map deafening-induced functional reorganization across the entire brain in young adult mice. Within one week of deafening, the auditory cortex is recruited by somatosensory and visual inputs, while stimulus-evoked responses are potentiated in the spared sensory pathways. Reorganization extends beyond sensory cortices to higher-order association areas, including anterior cingulate, retrosplenial, and posterior parietal cortices. Resting-state fMRI further reveals strengthened coupling both within sensory systems and between sensory systems and a default mode-like network. These findings demonstrate that adult-onset deafness rapidly reorganizes functional brain networks and further implicate the default mode-like network as a potential mediator of crossmodal integration. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Institute for Basic Science, https://ror.org/00y0zf565, IBS-R015-D1 Korea Brain Research Institute, 26-BR-01-01, 26-BR-07-01, 26-BR-02-02 National Research Foundation of Korea, https://ror.org/013aysd81, NRF-2021R1F1A1049434 Korea Health Industry Development Institute, https://ror.org/00fdzyk40, HI19C1234
www.biorxiv.org
May 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Deafness rapidly reorganizes functional brain networks in adult mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "Sensory loss triggers crossmodal reorganization across sensory modalities, and accumulating evidence indicates that this adaptive capacity persists into adulthood." #neuroscience
How stable are taste-shape crossmodal correspondences over time? 🥨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
EXPRESS: How stable are taste-shape crossmodal correspondences over time? - Farhana Tabassum, Erick G. Chuquichambi, Charles Spence, Enric Munar, Carlos Velasco,
The present research investigates the stability of taste-shape crossmodal correspondences (that is, how people non-randomly associate tastes and visual shapes, ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
How stable are taste-shape crossmodal correspondences over time? 🥨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to establish #musicscience
July 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to establish #musicscience
Crossmodal Expectations in Material Perception https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.24.734160v1
June 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Crossmodal Expectations in Material Perception https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.24.734160v1
Did you see the sound? A Bayesian Perspective on Crossmodal Perception in Low Vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696433v1
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Did you see the sound? A Bayesian Perspective on Crossmodal Perception in Low Vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696433v1
Final thing: Trying something analogous with blind/blindfolded humans (echolocating an object, then identifying it by *touch*) shows that crossmodal information transfer is very hard and even humanity's finest echolocators struggle with it. But it's possible! Kind of.
doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Frontiers | Object recognition via echoes: quantifying the crossmodal transfer of three-dimensional shape information between echolocation, vision, and haptics
Active echolocation allows blind individuals to explore their surroundings via self-generated sounds, similarly to dolphins and other echolocating animals. E...
doi.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Final thing: Trying something analogous with blind/blindfolded humans (echolocating an object, then identifying it by *touch*) shows that crossmodal information transfer is very hard and even humanity's finest echolocators struggle with it. But it's possible! Kind of.
doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
Online seminar series on #multisensory and #crossmodal #perception and #plasticity www.world-wide.org/Neuro/Multis... #neuroscience
October 4, 2023 at 12:40 PM
Online seminar series on #multisensory and #crossmodal #perception and #plasticity www.world-wide.org/Neuro/Multis... #neuroscience
So happy to share this work, feel free to check it out!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
Frontiers | An fMRI study of crossmodal emotional congruency and the role of semantic content in the aesthetic appreciation of naturalistic art
Numerous studies have explored crossmodal correspondences, yet have so far lacked insight into how crossmodal correspondences influence audiovisual emotional...
www.frontiersin.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So happy to share this work, feel free to check it out!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
The diatonic sound of scent imagery 🎼🌷
@erickkgustavo.bsky.social @pec-ipe.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@erickkgustavo.bsky.social @pec-ipe.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The diatonic sound of scent imagery - Oriente Pimentel, Erick G. Chuquichambi, Charles Spence, Carlos Velasco, 2025
This research investigates crossmodal correspondences between auditory stimuli, specifically musical modes, and olfactory mental imagery, represented by fragran...
journals.sagepub.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The diatonic sound of scent imagery 🎼🌷
@erickkgustavo.bsky.social @pec-ipe.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@erickkgustavo.bsky.social @pec-ipe.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Are Crossmodal Memories Better?🔊+📷=🧠🤔 Check out this systematic review + meta-analyses covering 30 years of evidence, interpretations, and methodologies. OA👉 doi.org/10.1037/bul0... Written four hands by S. Soto-Faraco & C. Spence for Psych. Bull. @cbc-upf.bsky.social @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Are Crossmodal Memories Better?🔊+📷=🧠🤔 Check out this systematic review + meta-analyses covering 30 years of evidence, interpretations, and methodologies. OA👉 doi.org/10.1037/bul0... Written four hands by S. Soto-Faraco & C. Spence for Psych. Bull. @cbc-upf.bsky.social @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social
Very interesting indeed. Now the engineer asks: if true, how can we use these neuron-level properties to nudge the brain as a whole toward more favorable states, cure mental disorders, aid recovery from strokes, boost crossmodal visual mental imagery? Control the controllers.
February 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Very interesting indeed. Now the engineer asks: if true, how can we use these neuron-level properties to nudge the brain as a whole toward more favorable states, cure mental disorders, aid recovery from strokes, boost crossmodal visual mental imagery? Control the controllers.
Last week at the Iberian Conference of Perception, we had the pleasure of welcoming Carlos Velasco and Elisa Raffaella Ferré as keynote speakers!
2x wonderful talks on Crossmodal sensory correspondences, and on Cognition in microgravity & space.
Many thanks for joining us at CIP’26
2x wonderful talks on Crossmodal sensory correspondences, and on Cognition in microgravity & space.
Many thanks for joining us at CIP’26
June 2, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Last week at the Iberian Conference of Perception, we had the pleasure of welcoming Carlos Velasco and Elisa Raffaella Ferré as keynote speakers!
2x wonderful talks on Crossmodal sensory correspondences, and on Cognition in microgravity & space.
Many thanks for joining us at CIP’26
2x wonderful talks on Crossmodal sensory correspondences, and on Cognition in microgravity & space.
Many thanks for joining us at CIP’26
Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation (in mice) www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #crossmodal #integration #plasticity #V1 #neuroscience
Frontiers | Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation
IntroductionThe functional connectivity topology of the primary visual cortex (V1) shapes sensory processing and cross-modal integration, yet how different s...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation (in mice) www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #crossmodal #integration #plasticity #V1 #neuroscience