- Position
- Director / Group Leader / Professor
- Institute
- Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging
Research statement
My research is centered on the intersection of perception, cognition and neuroscience. The ultimate goals are to understand the neurophysiology of the visual system, and how neural computations result in visual perception and cognition. My research reconstructs perceptual representations of human visual cortex using behavior (psychophysics), computational models, neuroimaging (predominantly fMRI at 7T), and custom-built biologically-inspired data-analysis methods (for example the pRF method). Besides fundamental vision questions, I apply the knowledge of the visual system to a variety of clinical, in particular ophthalmological and neurological, manifestations, with a specific interest in the plasticity and stability of the visual system.
Biographical notes
I am the director of the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging. In addition, lead the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, and I am a professor in Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience at the department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
