Cognitive Neuroscience Girona

“The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships … We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself”    Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)

Please close your eyes for a moment and consider what you will be doing tomorrow. While you are thinking about work, dinner, or a social activity, something very intriguing is happening: You are mentally navigating through a simulated future created by your brain. Although thinking about tomorrow just now felt like a deliberate process, it appears to be a fundamental aspect of how the brain operates. For example, when deciding to cross a busy street the future location of moving traffic is internally computed at great speed to determine when it will be safe to cross the street. 

I am intrigued by how the brain transforms externally experienced events—such as interactions with our environment and (sensory) feedback—into internalized knowledge structures (e.g., prior knowledge and internal models of the world). My research focuses on how this 'internalization' shapes perception, 'thinking', consciousness, and decision-making (quite a lot!).