Je hebt het vast weleens gevoeld: het vreemde en bijna onhandige gevoel wanneer je een stilstaande roltrap oploopt. Waarom is dat eigenlijk zo ongemakkelijk, terwijl het in principe gewoon een trap is...

Humans can learn various motor tasks based on binary reward feedback on whether a movement attempt was successful or not. Such ‘reward-based motor learning’ relies on exploiting successful motor comma...

Durf te vragen: Neurowetenschapper Yvonne Visser wil snappen hoe het gezonde brein werkt en hoe we besluiten nemen. „Daar staan we nooit bij stil maar dat is eigenlijk heel bijzonder.”

Participants performed two perceptual discrimination tasks in which we manipulated the motor costs of the two response options by varying the distance to the response buttons. We found a bias towards...

After concurrent visual and tactile stimuli have been presented repeatedly with a spatial offset, unisensory tactile stimuli, too, are perceived with a spatial bias towards the previously presented v...

To the Board of Directors, eLife and Erin O’Shea, President, HHMI: We, the undersigned life scientists, are writing to express our view that Professor Michael Eisen's social media posts should not b...

We believe the decisions we make result from careful thought processes. Yet our body is needed for turning these decisions into actions. Embodied decision-making acknowledges that the decisions we mak...

The default speed limit for built-up areas across Wales reduces from 30mph to 20mph on Sunday.