2010
Winnaar Van Swinderenprijs 2010!
23-10-10 18:17
Zojuist heb ik gehoord dat mijn proefschrift de Van Swinderenprijs 2010 gewonnen heeft! Deze prijs wordt jaarlijks door het Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap uitgereikt aan een Groningse promovendus in de Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen of Medische wetenschappen met de beste Nederlandstalige samenvatting. Hierbij wordt met name de leesbaarheid en voor het grotere publiek op een begrijpelijke wijze verwoorde inhoud van de Nederlandstalige samenvatting geëvalueerd.
De prijsuitreiking is op 21 december.
De prijsuitreiking is op 21 december.
Official start Brain and Cognition programme
12-09-10 13:48
On September 14 the UvA research priority area Brain and Cognition to which I am affiliated will officially kick-off with a small symposium.
Brain and Cognition deals with how the brain makes certain skills possible, such as perception, thought and action, as well as emotion, consciousness and movement. In short, it is concerned with the mental skills that enable people to deal with their environment appropriately and better themselves.
Brain and Cognition deals with how the brain makes certain skills possible, such as perception, thought and action, as well as emotion, consciousness and movement. In short, it is concerned with the mental skills that enable people to deal with their environment appropriately and better themselves.
Moved again!
14-07-10 08:53
As of tomorrow, I will not work in the A building anymore. My whole lab moved to the P building (Plantage Muidergracht 24) because that is where the Brain and Cognition center will be located. Look on the map how close to the zoo (Artis) it is!
ACT-R Spring School
08-04-10 08:39
Next week I will attend the ACT-R Spring School at the University of Groningen. I will teach a class and mentor researchers who come to Groningen to start new ACT-R research projects. In my lecture I will introduce the RACE/A declarative memory theory that has recently been proposed as an extension to ACT-R. RACE/A models enable researchers to include very detailed accounts of memory and decision-making processes in their ACT-R models. Sofar, the theory has been applied to make integrated ACT-R models of the Stroop effect, picture-word interference, learning and cognitive control related effects in semantic interference, and lexical decision.
After the Spring School, I will also present my recent work on the First European ACT-R Workshop. In this talk, I will discuss an experimental paradigm used in multiple-choice decision-making research, and present a model very much in line with RACE/A that may explain some complex interactions that we have observed in the paradigm.
After the Spring School, I will also present my recent work on the First European ACT-R Workshop. In this talk, I will discuss an experimental paradigm used in multiple-choice decision-making research, and present a model very much in line with RACE/A that may explain some complex interactions that we have observed in the paradigm.
Grant funded
08-04-10 08:36
A grant proposal I helped write has been funded! Now we have funding for a postdoc for three years. The project will be about decision-making with a focus on multiple-choice. As in related projects we will apply model-based MRI techniques.
The new postdoc will start in June.
The new postdoc will start in June.
New postdoc position at University of Amsterdam
01-02-10 09:00
How do people make multiple-choice perceptual decisions in a noisy environment? That is the core question of my new postdoctoral research project at the University of Amsterdam. In the project we will test the ability of mathematical models of decision-making to capture the behavioral consequences involved when the number of response alternatives increases. In turn, these models will inform and constrain analysis of fMRI data.
Models of decision-making
Models of decision-making