On Wednesday December 3rd, the first Duck/Rabbit lecture will be held in De Ruimte, Amsterdam. Duck/Rabbit Lectures are a series of monthly lectures during which…
The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad asked me to comment on the news that Finnish children are not obliged to learn handwriting at school any more.…
This years Society for Neurobiology of Language conference was organized in Amsterdam, at a beautiful venue: the ‘Beurs van Berlage’. My special task this time…
Together with Prof. Dr. Marc Slors from the Philosophy of Mind Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen, I wrote an article about the role of…
As I mentioned earlier on this website, I was selected to participate in The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Medicine/Physiology 2014. During the last week or…
In June 2014 the management elite of the Dutch universities came together with policy makers, CEO’s of big Dutch companies and a couple of students…
The first paper of my PhD project has been accepted in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The behavioral and neural effects of language on motion…
On May 21st, the symposium ‘Dialogues on the role of top-down factors in sensory processing’ took place. I organized this event together with Floris de…
I am very proud to be selected for the 2014 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology/Medicine. At the 64th Lindau Meeting 37 Nobel Laureates are…
Proefkonijnen is a TV program about fascinating science for a broad and young audience. The show is hosted by two guys, who are not afraid…