Floortje Bouwkamp

During a successful career as both an artist and entrepreneur, I developed a profound interest in the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception that lead me to my current efforts.

After graduating with a Cum Laude degree in Psychology, track Brain & Cognition at the University of Amsterdam I moved to Nijmegen where I graduated, again Cum Laude, from the Masters Programme in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Donders Institute. I joined the Predictive Brain Lab for my second year internship on multisensory working memory and concurrently was awarded with an NWO research talent grant to pursue a PhD on spatial predictions in visual search. Moreover, during my PhD I was involved in several science communication projects, including collaborations that lead to a Bio Art Design (BAD) award and a Art of Neuroscience award.

As a postdoctoral researcher I like to keep a versatile portfolio that keeps me on my feet :)

Firstly, I am deepening our understanding of how the brain combines differential signals coming from different parts of the visual field into a unified percept 

In collaboration with Marika I am investigating just how feature specific surprising input is and how early in time we can find expectations about an upcoming stimulus.

These two projects involve a novel neuroscientific technique called Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging which I combine with MEG. Lastly I set up a citizen science project with our lab and the Donders City lab investigating how predictability and uncertainty aversion might impact how we sample visual scenes.