On Friday June 7th, Alessandro won the 2019 Falling Walls competition held at the University of Groningen with his pitch about his ideas for a new neuro-ophthalmic assessment. The prize: a trip to Berlin, to attend the Falling Walls Conference, … Continued
In 2015, following a successful grant bid for a Horizon2020 MarieCurie Innovative Training Network, the NextGenVis network, coordinated by Prof. Frans W. Cornelissen, came to life. In the years to follow, NextGenVis offered 15 excellent and enthusiastic PhD students a … Continued
On June 17th, Hinke Halbertsma gave a presentation at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden about the visual system, and how illusions can be a powerful source for understanding it. Furthermore, she addressed how artists use this information by making paintings … Continued
Some visual tasks you can do better in your left compared to in your right visual field. But are all reported effects as robust as previously claimed? In a paper published in the journal “Cortex”, Sanne Brederoo and co-authors report … Continued
Congratulations to Nicolas Gravel for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled ‘The Neuroanatomical Organization of Intrinsic Brain Activity Measured by fMRI in the Human Visual Cortex‘. Nicolas defended his thesis on the 18th of April 2018 and aims to continue his … Continued
On April 8th, Frans Cornelissen gave a presentation at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden about visual illusions, art & the brain for the “Museum Jeugd Universiteit”. About 50 kids listened in to his presentation about visual illusions, the brain, and … Continued
Congratulations to Alessandro Grillini for winning a best poster award during the BCN Winter Meeting 2018 for his poster “A Unified Computational Model for Selective Attention Modulations of Visual Integration”. http://www.rug.nl/bcn/
Congratulations to Doety Prins for winning the Dondersprijs 2018 for her PhD thesis “Neuroanatomical changes in patients with loss of visual function”. The selection criteria for the award are high quality and the relevance to clinical ophthalmology, medical science of … Continued
Together with collaborators from Royal Visio, an expertise centre for blind and partially sighted people in the Netherlands, the Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology has been awarded three grants. The grants are for, developing new ways to measure viewing behaviour in … Continued
Congratulations to Sandra Hanekamp for successfully completing her PhD thesis titled ‘Glaucoma: an eye or a brain disease’. Sandra defended her thesis on the 9th of October and is now going to be a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard University in Boston to study … Continued