We are the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab led by Tomas Knapen. The lab is equally based both at the Cognitive Psychology department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and at the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
We perform computational modeling, imaging, psychophysics, and eye movement experiments to investigate how activations in the brain give rise to our conscious awareness of ourselves and the world around us. Our "Spiel" is that we try to understand the structure of the brain's responses, even those of high cognitive function, in light of vision and other sensations. Specifically, we investigate how sensory information intermixes with cognitive factors such as attention, semantic processing, and reward. For more information on the topics we research, please see the science section, or click any of the topics further below on this page.
For information on the procedures that we use in the lab, please consult the lab wiki
And, if you want to follow the goings-on in the lab, you can follow the lab on Twitter:
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New paper on Saccadic Adaptation
Implicit and explicit learning in reactive and voluntary saccade adaptation
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eLife paper on attentional warping of visual space published
Spatial sampling in human visual cortex is modulated by both spatial and feature-based attention
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New preprint - Retinotopic maps in the Cerebellum
Retinotopic maps of visual space in the human cerebellum
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Two Annual Reviews articles published this year
Reviews on bistable perception and population receptive field mapping published in Annual Reviews
