Author: barbara goudriaan

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for Post-docs 2020 was given to Freek van Ede from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Awarded paper: van Ede, F., Chekroud, S. R., & Nobre, A. C. (2019). Human gaze tracks attentional focusing in memorized visual space. Nature human behaviour, 3(5), 462-470. The study measures continuous recall and fine-grained gaze position during a ...
Read More

  Prof. Guy CHERON, PhD, received his master’s degree in Motor Sciences and his PhD in Neurophysiology, both from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Since 1993, Prof. Cheron is a full Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics (LNMB) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Director of the Laboratory ...
Read More

Episodic memory and prior knowledge: Neural correlates and developmental trends Yee Lee Shing Institute of Psychology Goethe University Frankfurt Investigating the beneficial effects of prior knowledge on memory is an important topic in cognitive neuroscience. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been shown to be involved in the encoding of new information that is congruent to a pre...
Read More

On Monday, June 11 2018, Paul Boon will defend his dissertation entitled “Updating Spatial Working Memory in a Dynamic Visual Environment” at 15:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Artem Belopolsky; promotor: Prof. Jan Theeuwes).
Read More

The institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organizing the symposium “Your brain on sports”, highlighting the latest findings in sport neuroscience. Speakers will cover the full range from scientist to practitioners to enlighten us whether neuroscience can help you perform better in sports. There will be presentations and a panel discussion, in w...
Read More

Normal and abnormal oscillations in the cortico-basal ganglia network revealed by deep brain stimulation recordings Deep brain stimulation is an effective treatment for patients with advanced movement disorders. It also offers a unique opportunity to record local field potentials from basal ganglia structures in humans. I will give a brief overview of physiological and pathological neural oscil...
Read More