Helmholtz Lecture: 25 January 2019, from 14.45 – 15.45, Academiegebouw – Aula, Domplein 29 in Utrecht January 25th , 2019 –Holly Bridge,  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK “Investigating the pathways underlying residual vision in hemianopia” Damage to the primary visual cortex leads to loss of the visual field contralateral to the damaged cortex….

On the 3rd of April, 2019, the Traffic Psychology Day 2019 will be organized in Utrecht. This is an annual meeting of Dutch psychology researchers to present and discuss the most recent development in the field of behaviour, traffic and mobility. The event is co-organized by Helmholtz members Stella Donkers and Chris Janssen, and there…

From the 22th to the 25th of September, 2019, Helmholtz members Chris Janssen and Stella Donker organize the Automotive User Interfaces Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference aims to be a platform for the exchange of research, applications and educational ideas on technical and human aspects of user interfaces in the automobile domain. For…

On the 5th of November, Eveline Crone from Leiden University will give a lecture about thinking about the self and others in adolescence. She will discuss the changes that occur within the adolescent brain in the regions that are important for thinking about the self and others in the context of adolescent specific opportunites, for…

From the 5th to the 7th of December, the Dutch Experimental Psychological Graduate Research School (EPOS) and the Helmholtz institute organize a winter school on the topic of ‘Inhibition’ with among others Leonardo Chelazzi, Lotte van Dillen and Leon Kenemans. The goal of this event is to give an introduction to and an overview of recent advances in…

On the 9th of November, Edward Vogel from the department of Psychology and Institute of Mind and Biology of the University of Chicago will give a lecture about ‘Dissecting the focus of attention in working memory’.

Terburg, Scheggia, del Rio, Klumpers, Ciobanu, Morgan, Montoya, Bos, Giobellina, van den Burg, de Gelder, Stein, Stoop and van Honk have published in article in Cell called ‘The Basolateral Amygdala Is Essential for Rapid Escape: A Human and Rodent Study’. The main points that have been put forward are that the human bilateral BLA damage…

On the 5th of October, the Dutch Association for Neuropsychology awarded Teuni ten Brink the PhD dissertation prize for her dissertation ‘Visuospatial neglect after stroke: Heterogeneity, diagnosis and treatment’. Her research aimed to understand the different aspects of and provide better treatment for visuospatial neglect, an attentional disorder frequently occurring after stroke. One is able…

On the 19th of October, Anna Cox from the UCL Interaction Center of University College London will give an interesting lecture about ‘The paradox of the new digital age: Struggling to get things done despite being always-on’.

5 October 2018 – David Burr Department of Neuroscience, University of Florence, Italy A visual sense of number Location: Ruppert Rood