Maria Elena Stefanou is Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology (Education) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Her research interests lie in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Maria uses EEG to investigate multisensory integration (MSI), how it affects perception and its relation to neurodevelopmental disorders with a particular interest in the interplay of attention and MSI. 

Maria has experience with virtual reality in efforts to distinguish between the main theories of human navigation, and currently, she aims to use VR to investigate MSI in more ecologically valid experimental settings.

Research Interests

• EEG/ERPs
• Multisensory integration and illusions
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Virtual Reality

Teaching

BSc in Neuroscience and Psychology

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Key publications

• Stefanou et al., 2024. The dissociating effects of fear and disgust on Multisensory Integration in Autism: Evidence from evoked potentials. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• Stefanou et al., 2020. Late attentional processes potentially compensate for early perceptual multisensory integration deficits in children with autism: evidence from evoked potentials. Scientific Reports.
• Stefanou et al., 2019. Electro-cortical correlates of multisensory integration using ecologically valid emotional stimuli: Differential effects for fear and disgust. Biological Psychology.
• Stefanou et al., 2020. A homing task that could not be done by image matching (Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract). Journal of Vision. 

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