by Floris de Lange | Mar 22, 2021 | Event, Lab, People
On March 11th 2021, David Richter successfully defended his thesis “Prediction throughout visual cortex: How statistical regularities shape sensory processing”. He investigated how expectations influence sensory processing throughout the sensory brain by performing...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Apr 9, 2019 | Lab, People
We are proud to say that these past three months three of our lab members received the honour of getting a doctorate degree. Erik te Woerd defended his topic: ‘Feeling the beat’ on the neurophysiology of cueing in Parkinson’s disease. Next up was Pim...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Jul 19, 2018 | Lab, People
Three grants have been awarded to members of the Predictive Brain Lab by the National Dutch organisation for scientific research NWO. Floortje Bouwkamp received a Research talent grant to pursue her PhD within the lab. She will study how expectations can...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Apr 1, 2018 | Lab
By Pim Mostert Neural decoding, or multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA), is an advanced analysis technique that has steadily gained in popularity over the past decade. However, I have the impression that these analyses are often treated as black boxes: it is unclear...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Dec 18, 2017 | Lab
Last week the Predictive Brain Lab visited the NVP Winterconference 2017 held by the Dutch Society for Psychonomics (Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Psychonomie). It is a biannual event where over 300 (mainly Dutch) researchers in the field of experimental psychology and...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Nov 7, 2017 | Lab
How do we convey scientific insights to the general public? InScience, a science film festival, knows the answer: on the big screen. That is why they started the initiative InVision. This marriage between researchers and filmmakers has now resulted into the...