Welcome to the Ven Memory & Cognition Group
I am Vincent van de Ven, cognitive neuroscientist, musician and avid fan of anything sci-fi in mental, cinematic or written form. I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, in The Netherlands. I received my PhD in 2006 in a Dutch/German collaboration (Goethe University & Maastricht University).
I have been interested in how the brain uses memories to create its own perceptual predictions about the world. During my PhD, I studied hallucinations in schizophrenia, which I regard as aberrant perceptual hypotheses. In relation to this, I have investigated intrinsic brain connectivity, which can reflect memory-related plasticity, and sensory processing in the context of perceptual predictions. I now aim to connect these themes and skills through time coding in the brain as a functional organizing principle.
In my research I use various psychophysical, neuroimaging, brain stimulation and computational modeling and analysis techniques.
I believe it is important that I communicate my knowledge about science and the brain to the general public. Understanding and interest are best shared when seeing how much fun it is in “finding things out” (that's a reference to a quote by Richard Feynman).
I have been interested in how the brain uses memories to create its own perceptual predictions about the world. During my PhD, I studied hallucinations in schizophrenia, which I regard as aberrant perceptual hypotheses. In relation to this, I have investigated intrinsic brain connectivity, which can reflect memory-related plasticity, and sensory processing in the context of perceptual predictions. I now aim to connect these themes and skills through time coding in the brain as a functional organizing principle.
In my research I use various psychophysical, neuroimaging, brain stimulation and computational modeling and analysis techniques.
I believe it is important that I communicate my knowledge about science and the brain to the general public. Understanding and interest are best shared when seeing how much fun it is in “finding things out” (that's a reference to a quote by Richard Feynman).
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Participate on online or "at-home" behavioral psychology experiments!
We are always on the lookout for potential participants who are interested in taking part in our experiments. During the first Covid-19 lockdown in The Netherlands, we developed a way for participants to conduct our experiment at home! Participants download and install Psychopy (ad-free freeware that can be installed on Windows, MacOSX and Linux) and then run our experiment code. We are also developing online experiments (e.g., Pavlovia, Inquisit) for experiments that are not too sophisticated. Participants will be financially compensated for their spent time on our experiments. If you are interested or would like to receive more information, please contact me by email
News and updates
Last update: March 2021
We are always on the lookout for potential participants who are interested in taking part in our experiments. During the first Covid-19 lockdown in The Netherlands, we developed a way for participants to conduct our experiment at home! Participants download and install Psychopy (ad-free freeware that can be installed on Windows, MacOSX and Linux) and then run our experiment code. We are also developing online experiments (e.g., Pavlovia, Inquisit) for experiments that are not too sophisticated. Participants will be financially compensated for their spent time on our experiments. If you are interested or would like to receive more information, please contact me by email
News and updates
- Check out my project updates for "Memory of Time", "Narrative Processing" and "Auditory Verbal Hallucinations" on ResearchGate!
- After some neglect, I finally revamped my Weebly website!
- December 2020: Sophocles Goulis will conduct his PhD on the MEMOBID inter-faculty research project. Welcome Sophocles!
- New articles published on the role of hippocampus in temporal memory (in Hippocampus) and speech monitoring (in Neuroimage)
- PALM group website now in the air!
- Book by Henry Otgaar and Mark Howe on False Memories in the Courtroom is now out at Oxford University Press! I contributed a chapter about the neuroscience of false memories. Congratulations to Henry and Mark!
- Julia Lifanov is now a PhD candidate in the lab of Maria Wimber at University of Birmingham, UK. Congrats!
- Manuscript about the Time Paired Associate Task (TPAT) now published in Learning & Memory! Many thanks to Sarah, Fren and Peter for their collaboration in this project!
- Our working group @Maastricht University -- the Perception, Attention, Learning & Memory (PALM) -- now has its own website: http://www.deweerdlab.com/. We are doing cool stuff!!
- Sarah Kochs is now a PhD candidate in the lab of Anne Roefs. Congrats!
Last update: March 2021
Contact information
You can contact me via email or office phone (+31 43 3884510)
Affiliation and Postal address:
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
PO Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Visiting address:
Room 1.020, Oxfordlaan 55, 6229 EV, Maastricht, The Netherlands
You can also find me on LinkedIn, Google Scholar profile (H-index = 30) and ResearchGate.
Affiliation and Postal address:
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
PO Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Visiting address:
Room 1.020, Oxfordlaan 55, 6229 EV, Maastricht, The Netherlands
You can also find me on LinkedIn, Google Scholar profile (H-index = 30) and ResearchGate.