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2026

  1. New project on body-based meditation and psilocybin

    The Tiny Blue Dot Foundation funds a new project in the lab on body-based meditation and psilocybin. Xaver Funk joins as a postdoc in 2027.

  2. Popylar workshop on pRF modeling in Coimbra

    A two-day hands-on workshop on population receptive field modeling with the new prfmodel Python package, at the University of Coimbra.

  3. PLoS Computational Biology paper combining fMRI and MEG published

    A forward model that combines pRF maps from fMRI with MEG estimates when each visual field map contributes to the measured response.

  4. Arrow of Time dataset nearing completion

    Final subjects are being scanned for our intensive 7T fMRI dataset of brain responses to brief naturalistic videos.

2025

  1. Nature paper on vicarious body maps published

    Vicarious body maps link visual and tactile processing in human cortex.

  2. Nature Communications paper on psilocybin and visual context published

    Effects of psilocybin on contextual computations in visual processing.

  3. Nature Human Behaviour paper on binocular rivalry published

    Mesoscale mechanisms of perceptual conflict resolution in binocular rivalry.

  4. Nature Neuroscience perspective on consciousness theory published

    Perspective on scientific standards for theories of consciousness.

2024

  1. Translational Psychiatry paper on 7T myeloarchitecture published

    Quantitative 7T MRI findings on frontocortical myeloarchitecture in depression.

2021

  1. Review on visuospatial coding in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

    Review on how the brain uses visual space as a fundamental coding mechanism

  2. PNAS paper on divisive normalization in the visual hierarchy

    Our new divisive normalization population receptive field model explains responses throughout visual cortex.

  3. Welcome to Ron, Ningkai and Niklas

    New PhD and master's students starting this month.

  4. Line-scanning fMRI at 7T

    Line-scanning at 7T samples BOLD responses across cortical depth every 250 µm with a 200 ms repetition time.

  5. PNAS paper on retinotopic processing in the default network and hippocampus

    Using topographic connectivity mapping, we show that hippocampus is visually organized.

2020

  1. Preprint on the visual organization of the default network and hippocampus

    Using topographic connectivity mapping, we show that hippocampus is visually organized.

  2. Current Biology paper on intracranial recordings during binocular rivalry

    Intracranial recordings reveal unique shape and timing of responses in human visual cortex during illusory visual events.

2019

  1. Preprint on visual cortex in reinforcement learning

    Learning in visual regions as support for the bias in future value-driven choice

  2. PLoS ONE paper on saccadic adaptation published

    Implicit and explicit learning in reactive and voluntary saccade adaptation

2018

  1. eLife paper on attentional warping of visual space published

    Spatial sampling in human visual cortex is modulated by both spatial and feature-based attention

  2. Preprint on retinotopic maps in the cerebellum

    Retinotopic maps of visual space in the human cerebellum

  3. Two Annual Reviews articles published this year

    Reviews on bistable perception and population receptive field mapping published in Annual Reviews

2017

  1. eLife paper on pupil-linked arousal and decision bias accepted

    Paper on fMRI-pupil relationship during decision-making accepted at eLife.

  2. Open position: high-resolution fMRI of bistable perception

    Open PhD/postdoc position on CAS/NWO collaboration.

  3. Review on bistable perception accepted in the Annual Review of Psychology

    Collaborative review between our lab at the VU, Charité Berlin, Michigan State University and Vanderbilt.

  4. 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.

2016

  1. Recent publications from the lab

    Our lab has recently published a couple of papers on pupil responses and fMRI of eye-movement influences on visual cortex.

  2. New Marie Curie postdoc: Martin Szinte

    Martin Szinte is starting as a Marie Curie postdoc in the lab.

  3. New postdoc: Martijn Barendregt

    Martijn Barendregt is starting as a postdoc in the lab.

2015

  1. Nature Neuroscience paper on bistable perception published

    Paper on neural correlates of perceptual switches in bistable perception.

  2. ABMP postdoc grant awarded

    Our lab received an ABMP postdoc grant, for an upcoming collaboration with Heleen Slagter and Steven Scholte at the UvA