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
Congratulations Dr. Aave Hannus!
Congratulations to Aave Hannus for successfully completing her PhD thesis titled ‘Competition for feature selection: Action-related and stimulus-driven competitive biases in visual search’. Aave defended her thesis on the 21st of September 2017 and will continue to combine her position as … Continued
A left and right view on the world
Do your left and right half of your brain ‘see’ the world in the same fashion? In a paper published in “Brain and Cognition”, Sanne Brederoo and co-authors report that they do not. While brain lateralisation has been described often … Continued
Clusters in visual cortex
Does the human brain work in the same way when it is at rest as when it is being stimulated? In a paper published in “NeuroImage”, Nicolas Gravel and co-authors report that it does. They find that a new method … Continued
GLANCE Project of Dilce Tanriverdi Receives Funding to Study Visual Crowding under Low-Light Conditions in Glaucoma
People with glaucoma often struggle to see in dim lighting, but standard vision tests don’t always capture these everyday challenges. One overlooked factor may be visual crowding. Visual crowding, which is the difficulty... READ MORE
Mind your ‘stip’!
There is a need for simpler methods to assess sensitivity at different visual field locations. In a recent paper in the journal Translational Vision Sciences and Technology, Anne Vrijling and colleagues show that... READ MORE
[Position filled] PhD in the “Virtual Reality for enhanced Visual Rehabilitation” (VR4eVR) project
Our research project “Virtual Reality for enhanced Visual Rehabilitation” (VR4eVR: say ‘VR forever’) aims at finding out how virtual reality (and fMRI) may facilitate visual rehabilitation for hemianopia, which may be necessary after... READ MORE
Daily life vision captured in a ‘flower’
Visual crowding shows that it is harder to recognize objects when these are surrounded by similar objects, such as in a cluttered environment. The phenomenon has relevance in various ophthalmic and neurological disorders.... READ MORE