Ahmet Altınok
Ahmet received his PhD in 2024 on a thesis comprising four studies on the potential effects of the consumption of cocoa flavanols, caffeine, and GABA on cognition. His work focused on attention, working memory, and cognitive control in particular.
Gülşen Balta
Gülşen earned her PhD in 2024. Her PhD project was focused on adaptive event- and object-based perceptual representation. More specifically, she investigated top-down control of temporal integration and working memory consolidation, as a function of both momentary stimulus properties and learned perceptual regularities.
Yining “Ivory” Chen
Yining finished her PhD in 2024, for which she studied visual selective attention, and the effects of memory-driven salience on behavioral performance, pupil dilation, and EEG, in the context of concealed information testing. Her project was co-supervised by Sebastiaan Mathȏt.
Joost de Jong
Joost earned his PhD degree Cum Laude in 2024. Under the co-supervision of Hedderik van Rijn, his research focused on the perception of time and the adaptive advantage this affords for working memory processes.
Güven Kandemir
Güven earned his PhD in 2024. As a PhD student in my lab, Güven focused on the neural correlates of representation in working memory. He has investigated imagery, learning, as well as various other aspects of working memory with both multivariate EEG analysis and behavioral measures.
Aytaç Karabay
Aytaç completed his PhD in 2020, in which he studied how task performance is affected by stimulus features, as well as by the consumption of cocoa flavanols. Later, as a postdoc on an Open Research Area (ORA) grant, he took up multivariate pattern analysis to study working memory and attention.
Robbert van der Mijn
During his stay in my lab, Robbert was a postdoctoral researcher on a project funded by Politie en Wetenschap, in which he developed methods and analysis tools to use EEG, pupillometry and rapid serial visual presentation in concealed information tests.
Jefta Saija
Jefta obtained his PhD in 2019. In his PhD project, Jefta investigated links between the auditory and visual modalities, focusing specifically on temporal integration and phonemic restoration. His project was co-supervised by Deniz Başkent and Tjeerd Andringa.
Shuyao Wang
Shuyao obtained her PhD in 2026. Shuyao’s main research interests were the behavioral consequences as well as the neural correlates of visual selective attention and representation in working memory. Shuyao was co-supervised by Aytaç Karabay.
Sophia Wilhelm
Sophia earned her PhD in 2026. She studied the connection between working memory and sleep, and performed experiments with both human and rodent participants to study the underlying neural substrates. Sophia was co-supervised by Robbert Havekes.
Michael Wolff
Michael completed his PhD Cum Laude in 2021. Working in close collaboration with Mark Stokes in Oxford, he applied multivariate pattern analysis to EEG to study the neurophysiological mechanisms of working memory. Michael later continued as a postdoc in Mark’s lab on our joint ORA project.