MMN 2026 at Bari
I participated in Mismatch Negativity 2026 (MMN26) Conference in Bari, Italy during 7th to 9th October 2026. I delivered a talk and presented three posters on my postdoc projects apart from supporting my student Dr Neha Ramu's oral presentation. This was made possible due to Pickford Travelling Fellowship awarded by School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK. I gave a talk at MMN26 conference to an audience of ~200 researchers at Aula Magna auditorium, Bari University Hospital on 8th October 2026 entitled " Attentional engagement reduces mismatch negativity (MMN) deficits in early-stage psychosis ". Executive summary : Mismatch negativity (MMN) is widely used as a biomarker of psychosis and is traditionally considered pre-attentive. However, evidence suggests MMN depends on attentional context. This review shows that MMN deficits in clinical high-risk (CHR) and first-episode psychosis (FEP) often disappear when participants perform demanding visual d...