Alessandro Grillini wins Falling Walls Lab competition in Groningen
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
NextGenVis: the Next Generation of Visual neuroscientists
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
Our brain, art and visual illusions
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
Does it replicate or not, that is the question!
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 Dr. Nicolas Gravel!
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
Frisian Flag Visual illusion shown during presentation for Museum Jeugd Universiteit by Frans Cornelissen
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
Alessandro Grillini wins BCN Poster award during 2018 Winter Meeting
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/
Doety Prins wins Dondersprijs 2018 for best Netherlands Ophthalmology PhD thesis
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
Three grants for collaboration with Royal Visio
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 Dr. Sandra Hanekamp!
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
Visual Hallucinations and the Curious Absence of Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex
Visual hallucinations are perceptions without a physical stimulus to relate this percept too. It affects millions of people, yet surprisingly little is known about what’s happening in the brain during visual hallucinations. Marouska... READ MORE
The details are in the contrast
There is a need for simpler methods of perimetry – the measurement of retinal sensitivity at different visual field locations. In a recent paper in the journal Vision Research, Anne Vrijling, Minke de... READ MORE
15 PhD positions in Advanced Glaucoma Research in NL/DE/FR/NO
Glaucoma is the most common age-related neurodegenerative eye disease in Western society and one of the four major eye diseases causing blindness. Unfortunately, current treatments can only slow the deterioration but do not... READ MORE
Fog illusion
Recently, science journalist Karel Knip of Dutch newspaper NRC handelsblad asked Frans Cornelissen the question of whether objects could appear larger in fog or at dusk than they really are. In his column... READ MORE