CAP Lab

Luzi was a PhD candidate supervised by Stefan van der Stigchel, Chris Paffen, and Surya Gayet. She uses online and lab-based behavioral methods to investigate how statistical learning influences conscious access, attentional selection, and working memory encoding. She is currently doing a postdoc at the Hong-Kong Polytechnic University.

Giacomo was a PhD student at the Donders Institute, The Netherlands, supervised by Marius Peelen and Surya Gayet (graduated in 2023). He used fMRI and behavioral methods to investigate scene-based predictions in object perception. He is currently doing a postdoc at the University of Giessen.

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Paul was a PhD student at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, supervised by Stefan van der Stigchel and Surya Gayet (graduated in 2022). He used eye-tracking and behavioral measures to investigate trans-saccadic perception, fragile memory, and visual working memory. He is currently a postdoc at the Donders Institute.

Myrthel was supervised by Surya Gayet (postdoc at Donders Institute, 2019-2020; PhD at Utrecht University, graduated in 2019). In her PhD, she used behavioral and EEG methods to study how the perceptual outcomes of our actions influence perception. During her postdoc, she studied unconscious arithmetic processing. She is currently Chief Editor at Nature Communications.

Xiaohua was a visiting PhD candidate for 1 year under the supervision of Surya Gayet and Samson Chota, as part of her PhD at Tianjin Normal University (supervisor: Yong Lyu). She investigated the influence of visual working memory on conscious access to real-world objects, using behavioral methods and EEG. She is currently a lecturer at Qinghai Normal University

Piotr was a visiting PhD candidate under the supervision of Surya Gayet, as part of his PhD at the University of Warsaw. He investigated how homeostatic threats (disgust, fear) determine conscious access, using behavioral and physiological measurements. He is currently an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian university of Krakow.

After completing her Neuroscience & Cognition research master at Utrecht University, Femke joined the lab as a research assistant supervised by Surya Gayet. She used 7T fMRI and machine learning techniques to investigate visual working memory storage in the human brain, as a function of the attentional state of the memory content. She is currently a data analyst at ABN AMRO.

After completing his masters in data science, Cees joined the lab as a research assistant supervised by Surya Gayet in 2022-2023. He used deep neural networks to investigate the role of scene-context on object recognition in human and machine vision. He is currently a data scientist at TNO.

Laura joined the lab as a research assistant supervised by Surya Gayet in 2022-2023. She helped conducting literature search, helped collecting existing fMRI datasets and stimulus sets, and built this website. She is currently doing her PhD at Berlin's Humboldt University.

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Mariska joined the lab as a research assistant supervised by Surya Gayet in 2021-2022. She helped setting up and running behavioral and fMRI studies for the Veni-funded project "Finding objects in natural scenes". She stayed in the lab to do her Cognitive Neuroscience research master's thesis (Donders Institute, Radboud University), and is currently a data analyst at Breinstein.

Süheyla joined the lab as an intern in 2023, as she visited Utrecht University for her Erasmus Exchange program. Under the supervision of Surya, she investigated the mediating role of attention in the binding of object features in short-term memory. She is currently doing an internship at the VisionLab at Boğaziçi University, Turkey.