Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy

About

I study what the eyes reveal about cognitive state: attention, alertness, and conscious perception. Over four years of research at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Oxford, and UC Davis, I've built analysis pipelines for eye-tracking, MEG, EEG, and intracortical brain-computer interface (BCI) recordings.

I'm a PhD student in Psychology at UC San Diego, in Dr. Timothy Brady's Vision and Memory Lab. I'm also building Avelis, Inc., which translates ocular physiology into machine-readable measures of human state.

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Research Experience

Publications & Presentations

Published Abstracts

1. Chang, S., Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Okazaki, J., Roy, D., Matsunaga, M., Goo, C., Carrazana, E., Viereck, J., & Liow, K. (2023). Investigating the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in multiple sclerosis with autoimmune comorbidities (P5-3.008). Neurology, 100(17 Suppl 2). DOI

Oral Presentations

1. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., et al. (2026). The physiological correlates of conscious and unconscious visual and auditory processing: An MEG and eye-tracking study. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. Presentation details
2. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Gobo, V., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Benitez-Andonegui, A., Bandettini, P., & Kronemer, S. (2025). Neural dynamics of visual consciousness and awareness. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Accepted oral presentation; not presented due to the government shutdown.
3. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P. (2025). The eyes know what the brain hears. NIMH IRP Fellows’ Scientific Training Day, Washington, D.C. Selected lightning talk, one of two postbacs chosen.
4. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Gobo, V., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Benitez-Andonegui, A., Bandettini, P., & Kronemer, S. (2025). Examining how spontaneous eye measures indicate conscious and unconscious sensory neural processing. NIMH IRP Fellows’ Scientific Training Day, Washington, D.C.
5. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P. (2025). What the eyes reveal about the brain. NIMH Three Minute Talk Competition, Bethesda, MD.
6. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Gobo, V., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Benitez-Andonegui, A., Bandettini, P., & Kronemer, S. (2025). Investigating eye metrics as an indicator of sensory neural processing, behavior, and conscious perception. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
7. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Gobo, V., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Benitez-Andonegui, A., Bandettini, P., & Kronemer, S. (2025). How brain states associated with spontaneous pupillary fluctuations alter conscious and unconscious sensory neural processing. NIH Postbac Poster Day, Bethesda, MD.
8. Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Shehabi, S., Laurie, N., Pierotti, E., & Corina, D. (2023). The impact of audiovisual cues on speech recognition: An ERP study. UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference, Davis, CA.
9. Chang, S., Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Okazaki, J., Roy, D., Goo, C., Liow, K., Viereck, J., & Carrazana, E. (2023). Investigating the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in multiple sclerosis with autoimmune comorbidities. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
10. Shehabi, S., Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Pierotti, E., & Corina, D. (2023). An ERP study investigating the influence of audiovisual cues on speech recognition. Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
11. Mason, T., Suwanamalik-Murphy, P., Tenorio, K., Diaz, S., Pauker, K., Gaither, S., Halim, M., Dunham, Y., & Olson, K. (2023). Variability in the cross-race effect among geographically diverse White children. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

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