Two million euros for decoding the neural mechanisms of vision

Posted date: 12 Jul 2022

Dr Arjen Alink was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). His project EXPAT (How EXPectation and ATtention shape visual information processing in the human brain) will be funded with almost two million euros over five years from February 1, 2023.

Dr Arlink is currently working at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. He will return to the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in October and do research at the Institute for Systemic Neurosciences. In his project, the scientist wants to show how expectation and attention change the coding of natural image information in the human brain across visual features, across different brain areas and over time. In addition, he will address the question of whether attentional and expectancy effects in the visual cortex are mediated by the same or different feedback mechanisms.

Reference Link:https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/forschung/2022/0704-erc-alink-uke.html

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