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 | Mar 6, 2019 | People
The predictive brain lab is happy to announce that both a current member, Alexandra Vlassova, and a member-to-be, Christoph Huber-Huber, have received a Marie Curie grant to execute their postdoctoral research within our lab. Alya Vlassova will be probing the drive of...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Dec 4, 2018 | People
On November 23, 2018, Floris gave his inaugural lecture: Ceci n’est pas une pipe. During this lecture, he discussed, among other things: the key ingredients of a predictive brain, why we don’t hallucinate our thoughts, how expectations filter our perception and why we...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Nov 20, 2018 | People
Claudia Lüttke successfully defended her thesis “What you see is what you hear: Visual influences on auditory speech perception”. In a conversation we do not only effortlessly translate soundwaves into words and sentences, but we also use the oral...
by Ella Bosch | Nov 12, 2018 | People
The Predictive Brain lab frequently welcomes researchers from other universities and institutes. These researchers come to the Donders Institute for a limited amount of time to learn techniques and work on projects. One of these researchers is Cooper Smout, who has...
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...