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
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Paper accepted at eLIFE
Paper on fMRI-pupil relationship during decision-making accepted at eLIFE.
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Open position - High resolution fMRI of bistable perception
Open PhD/postdoc position on CAS/NWO collaboration.
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Review on Bistable Perception accepted at Annual Reviews
Collaborative Review between Our lab @ the VU, Charité Berlin, Michigan State University and Vanderbilt.
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NWO-CAS grant awarded
Our lab received an NWO-CAS grant, for an upcoming collaboration with the Beijing lab of Peng Zhang and Sheng He.
