by Sarah Kusch | Apr 2, 2021 | People
We are happy to announce that Floris de Lange won an Ammodo Science Award 2021! It’s a biannual award given to eight scientists in the Netherlands for their contributions to fundamental research in one of four scientific domains. The associated prize money can be used...
by Sarah Kusch | 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 | 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...
