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 distractor tasks. We argue that active distractor tasks reduce reliance on impaired top-down processes, supporting MMN via preserved bottom-up processing. These findings highlight the importance of task design for using MMN in early psychosis (ESZ) research.

Slides of my talk are shared here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14mfG0CF9liaLjxLSxn2Yd8r3H3s7kSFc/view

Here is a picture from my talk at MMN conference .

Here is a picture showing my acknowledgements for receiving Pickford Travelling Fellowship.

Here are my posters at the conference:

Here is my student Dr Neha, giving her talk entitled "Is MMN a biomarker of Chronic Pain?" on a work done with me.

Special thanks to School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK, for supporting my work.