Director of the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory, Professor Brain, Cognition, and Plasticity at the Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Chris is interested in how statistical and contextual learning guide perception and attention

In his PhD project, Surya examines the plasticity and automaticity of the predictive mind, using meditation.

Lynn uses deep neural networks to study visual cognition. Lynn just handed in her thesis and will embark on a postdoc at MIT soon!

Caterina's PhD project examines the action-orientedness of working memory and attention

Litian will start in September 2022 on a CSC-funded project

Evert's PhD project explores three threads stemming from Karl Friston's free-energy principle (FEP): 1) the fundamental role played in perception by 1) the basal ganglia and dopamine, 2) action, and the 3) the philosophical implications of the principle more generally. Evert will defend his PhD thesis in March!

Jet is interested in the relationship between action and perception.