The Communicative Brain

The Communicative Brain group is funded by a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship, awarded by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (≈ 1 mil euros)

The goal of the Communicative Brain group is to understand how the brain integrates auditory and visual signals into a coherent message during multimodal, face-to-face interactions. The core theory we want to test is whether and how oscillatory neural activity plays a role in integrating these different sources of information within and between conversational partners.

We will investigate this using new cutting-edge techniques, including dual-EEG, MEG, rapid invisible frequency tagging, and detailed behavioural analyses of auditory and visual signals in interactive contexts.

Team

Principal investigator

Linda Drijvers

Post-docs

Noor Seijdel

PhDs

Sara Mazzini

Marlijn ter Bekke

Miguel Rubianes Mendez (visiting)

Veerle Wilms

Cecilía Hústa

Master/Bachelor students

Nivedha Narayanaswamy

Almut Jebens

Daan van Oosten

Alumni

Lina van Otterdijk
Florence Bonten
Noortje Akkermans
Athanasis Athanasiou
Hanne van Uden
Veerle Wilms
Gaby Voorbraak
Kirstin Bleumink