Author: Anouk van Loon

Date: 15 February 2018 Time: 16.00 - 17.00 Drinks: 17.00 - 18.00 Location: VU Main Building HG 05A00 Premembering Experience In this talk, Kia Nobre will discuss how the brain uses multiple time scales of experience to anticipate relevant events proactively and dynamically in order to facilitate the analysis and utilisation of information to guide adaptive behaviour. Oxford Cent...
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Salience in the Control of Eye Movements in Natural Scenes Date: 24-10-2017 Time: 13.45 Location: Auditorium Titel: Salience in the Control of Eye Movements in Natural Scenes Promotor: Prof. J. L. Theeuwes Summary: Visual acuity is highest at the point of gaze, and declines rapidly into peripheral vision. As a result, eye movements bring different parts of the visual world into...
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Date: 12 October 2017 Time: 16.00-17.00 Drinks: 17.00-18.00 Location: VU University - TR K1B-74 Professor Amir Amedi​ is a leading neuroscientist ​ working ​on unraveling ​the ​complex balance between ​stability and flexibility ​in the organization of​ our sense ​for over 15 years. His main research interest involves our senses. He is an expert on Brain imaging of the senses, Restorati...
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Date: August 9, 2017 Time: 10.00 – 16.00 Drinks: 16.00-18.00 Location: VU University, 15th Floor Church Room
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Date: August 4, 2017 Time: 16.00 – 17.00 Drinks: 17.00-18.00 Location: VU University, WN-C-623 “Ageing, Brain and Cognition: Some results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN)” I will describe a range of results from neuroscientific investigation of approximately 700 people from 18-88 years of age in the CamCAN project (www.cam-can.org), including: 1...
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Mini-Symposium “Attention and Reward” Date: February 23, 2017 Time: 15.00 – 17:30 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (MF-G6-13: medical faculty, G-Wing, 6th floor, room 13)   Schedule 15.00 – 15.05     -                 Introduction 15.05 – 15.30     -                 Leonardo Chelazzi, University of Verona, Italy Statistical Learning of Target Selection and Distractor ...
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On Thursday, February 23, 2017, Michel Failing will defend his dissertation entitled "For what it's worth: Reward value drives visual selective attention" at 11:45 am in the VU Aula (promotor: Prof. Jan Theeuwes).
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When: November 24-25, 2016 Where: De Doelenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Singel 425, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://ibba.institute/epos-attention/ The aim of the meeting is to provide a broad overview of recent developments in the field of attention from different perspectives (e.g., animal studies, EEG/MRI, developmental). Talks will be given by experts in the field and are followed b...
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Keuze voor iemand op een datingsite wordt beïnvloed door eerder bekeken profielfoto’s De keuze om wel of niet met iemand te daten, zoals via een datingsite of app als Tinder, wordt beïnvloed door de profielfoto’s die eerder zijn bekeken. De eerder waargenomen foto blijft even hangen in het brein en heeft hierdoor invloed op de waarneming van de profielfoto die men op dat moment ziet. Dit blijkt u...
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Link to the Article: Negligible fronto-parietal BOLD activity accompanying unreportable switches in bistable perception Onze hersenen verwerken beeld zonder dat we dit doorhebben De visuele keuzes die bepalen wat je ziet kunnen volledig onbewust plaatsvinden. De frontale hersengebieden, die normaal het denkwerk doen, blijven stil bij het maken van deze onbewuste keuzes. De keuzes ...
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