by Mariya Manahova | Aug 17, 2018 | Publications
Our knowledge about the environment can influence the way we perceive things around us. In this study, we investigated how brain activity changes when we are familiar with an image (i.e., we have seen it before) or when we expect a particular image (i.e., we expect to...
by Floris de Lange | Apr 16, 2018 | Publications
Every day we translate the sound waves of speech into meaningful words and sentences. When we do that, we categorize ambiguous sounds into discrete percepts (e.g. phonemes /b/ and /d/). Different speakers can pronounce phonemes differently, but our brain can flexibly...
by Lieke van Lieshout | Feb 26, 2018 | Publications
Curiosity is one of our most fundamental biological drives and it is important for many things we do in our everyday life. Imagine for example that you hear your phone beep in your pocket. Probably, you will feel the urge to check the message right away, even though...
by admin | Dec 5, 2017 | Publications
In a series of three experiments, we investigated the relationship between expectations and conscious perception. By manipulating stimulus expectations within the attentional blink paradigm, we were able to show that valid stimulus expectations increase the likelihood...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Oct 20, 2017 | Publications
Albers AM, Meindertsma T, Toni I, de Lange FP (2017). Decoupling of BOLD amplitude and pattern classification of orientation-selective activity in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, in...
by Floortje Bouwkamp | Oct 20, 2017 | Publications
Utzerath C, St John Saaltink E, Buitelaar J, de Lange FP (2017). Repetition suppression to objects is modulated by stimulus-specific expectations. Scientific Reports, 8;7(1):8781....
