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Borja Aguado holds a lecturer position at the Universitat de Vic since 2023. E-Mail: borja.aguado@uvic.cat

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We live in a complicated world. Nevertheless, it is intriguing to see how biological systems overcome challenges and adapt to new environments. Learning is one of the earliest and most fundamental ways that organisms change to suit their environment. Through the process of learning, we gain the ability to integrate past events and perform a series of sensory-motor decisions in order to control the future. In this line, one of my primary research interests is understanding how humans integrate sensory-motor information with prior knowledge to achieve stable and precise environmental interactions. In order to do this, I use a variety of behavioural tasks (e.g., psychophysics, interoception, judgments) in virtual reality settings, where the cycle between action and perception is either disrupted by occlusions or conflicting tasks, or decopled in the spatial and temporal domain from action. This allows us to get insight into how observers draw upon their prior knowledge and fresh information in order to address a task.

Prof.Joan López-Moliner (opens in new tab) supervised my doctoral studies in the VISCA group (opens in new tab)at the University of Barcelona.