Post-Doctoral Fellow
Speech Perception and Production Laboratory
Department of Psychology
Queen's University

telephone: (613) 533-6275
or (613) 533-6000 ext 77595

fax: (613) 533-2499

e-mail: aalsius@gmail.com

Education

B.A. (Hon.) Psychology,
University of Barcelona, 2003

Ph.D. Cognitive science and language program, Psychology,
University of Barcelona, 2009

Research Interests

Audiovisual speech perception

Speech processing

Consciousness in Multisensory integration

Publications

Navarra, J., Alsius, A., Velasco, N., Soto-Faraco, S. & Spence, C. (2010). Perception of audiovisual speech synchrony for native and non-native language. Brain Research. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.01.059

Soto-Faraco, S. & Alsius, A. (2009). Deconstructing the McGurk-MacDonald illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(2):580-7.

Navarra, J., Alsius, A., Soto-Faraco, S. & Spence, C. (2009). Assessing the role of attention in the audiovisual integration of speech. Informational Fusion, 11(1):4-11.

Koppen, C., Alsius, A. & Spence, C. (2008). Semantic congruency and the Colavita visual dominance effect. Experimental Brain Research, 184(4): 533-546. PDF 489 KB

Alsius, A., Navarra, J., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2007). Attention to touch weakens audiovisual speech integration. Experimental Brain Research, 183(3): 399-404. PDF 318 KB

Soto-Faraco, S. & Alsius, A. (2006). Conscious access to the unisensory components of a crossmodal illusion. Neuroreport, 18(4): 347-350. PDF 128 KB

Alsius, A., Navarra, J., Campbell, R. & Soto-Faraco, S. (2005). Audiovisual integration of speech falters under high attention demands. Current Biology. 9(15): 839-843. PDF 211 KB

Soto-Faraco, S., Sinnett, SC., Alsius, A., & Kingstone, A. (2005) Spatial orienting of tactile attention induced by gaze direction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12(6): 1024-1031. PDF 373 KB

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Sinnett, S., Alsius, A.(2004). La re-unificación de los sentidos. Reseña del libro: The Handbook of Multisensory Proceses. Cognitiva, 16: 257-259.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., & Alsius, A. (2004). Assessing automaticity in audiovisual speech integration: Evidence from the speeded classification task, Cognition, 92: B13-B23. PDF 183 KB