Welcome to my website
I am an Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
My research seeks to understand the general principles underlying active vision, memory, and imagery on the level of brain activity and behavior.
Think back to a friend’s wedding, and vivid impressions of the ceremony may unfold in your “mind’s eye”. How does the brain reconstruct such experiences, and could elucidating this process reveal how experiences emerge in general?
My work seeks to address these questions by identifying the behavioral and neural patterns that generalize across tasks (e.g., reoccurring gaze patterns) while linking them to the experiences participants report.
To this aim, I combine naturalistic multi-task studies with neuroimaging and behavioral tracking (e.g., fMRI, EEG, eye tracking), and develop open-access resources to enhance how human behavior can be measured in neuroimaging with machine learning. The resulting knowledge and tools will help understand human cognition in health and disease and paves the way for innovations such as human-like AI.
