The second paper of my PhD project has been accepted in the open access journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. Manipulating word awareness dissociates feed-forward from feedback…

In July I presented a poster at the 19th conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness in Paris. The ASSC is an…

The Belgian national newspaper BN De Stem interviewed me for an article about handwriting vs. typing. From now on, you can quote me saying that…

In January 2015, the ‘Psychiatry beyond scientism’ conference for psychiatrists and philosophers was organized at the Free University in Amsterdam. The three-day conference aimed to…

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…