Question: what makes you think that your research is more important than other peoples research. such as the other scientists in this competition

Paul Matusz answered on 15 Nov 2018:

I think each scientist here is doign very interesting research. So I’d not say that my research is more important. But I can say what are the novel bits in my resaerch: 1) I use traditional tasks to focus on very specific processes – so if i see a difference in it between condtition 1 and 2 because of my manipulation, i know it occured because of the prcesses i am interested in, 2) I then recreate under controlled conditions many things typical for how we porocesing information in everyday encironemtns – some information is important to what we’re doing, but at the same time there is some that is not interesting – so we need skills in focusing attention, i present the infoirmation also in visuion, then hearing, or in both senses at once – traditional experiments, also on memory , dont do either of thise things because they think its enough to study memory for visual information. But from other resaerch we know that this is not enough as visual and multisensory information is processed differently by the brain. I base my studies on the brain representing memories in a very multisensory way, too. And lastly, I study how we can use technology, like VR, tablets, games, to make learning fun and so make people learn better than ever before. In my work I combine all of those things at the same time, and with this approach I am hoping to make education better, and improve rehabilitation of different disorders – from lazy eye through dyslexia to disorders of movement 🙂