Real-world neuroscience

Prof. Pawel Matusz completed his PhD in 2013 at the Birkbeck College of the University of London under the supervision of Prof. Martin Eimer. In his doctorate project, he used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to show how, early in adult brains, object-based attentional selection is controlled by multisensory process types based on salience and directed at a target. Since the end of his PhD and in collaboration with Gaia Scerif, of the University of Oxford, he has studied how dynamic interaction between multisensory processing, selective attention skills and experience shape object recognition in school-age children. In 2014, he started a 3-year post-doc training using methods analysing cutting-edge EEG signals to understand the brain and cognitive mechanisms that orchestrate perception, selective attention, and the learning of simple and complex multisensory objects throughout a person’s life. In 2016, he received his first competitive grant as leading researcher and has since received several other competitive subsidies both as leading researcher or as coresearcher to study the role of multisensory attention in learning processes as well as object recognition in healthy and atypical subjects.