Melvin Eckert

I am fascinated by the tools the brain implements to make sense of ambiguous visual experiences, trying to understand a world it cannot see. My focus here will be on the predictions aiding input characterization along higher-order (semantic) dimensions. More precisely, the goal of my internship is to characterize features of semantic predictions that are updated whenever visual experiences violate expectations.

I am currently pursuing a Research MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University (UM). Prior to that, I completed my BSc in Psychology at UM. I did my thesis in the Brain Stimulation and Cognition Lab by Alexander Sack. I used EEG to investigate pre-stimulus phase-dependent biases during visual categorization, under supervision of Sanne ten Oever. 

After a long day at university, I love spending evenings with friends, cooking together, playing table or card games, or watching movies. I also enjoy going to the cinema to watch new movies or old classics on the big screen.