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Research

Our work is organized in four themes that share methods, models and data. Each theme page describes the questions we ask and lists the relevant papers, people and tools.

Topographic maps

How maps of the sensory world and of the body organize processing throughout the brain.

Precision neuroimaging

Intensive, high-quality measurements in individual brains, collected to be shared as open datasets.

Computational models

Encoding models that connect sensory input, brain responses and behavior.

Perception and awareness

How the brain resolves ambiguity, and how attention and arousal shape what we perceive.

Knapen Lab

tknapen@gmail.com

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Cognitive Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences

Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam

Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Meibergdreef 75, 1105 BK Amsterdam

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

KNAW (affiliated)

Funded by NWO (Dutch Research Council), Netherlands eScience Center and Tiny Blue Dot Foundation.

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