Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

Understanding language requires tracking entities across discourse - i.e., knowing where things are and how they change, even when not explicitly stated. Whether language models perform such tracking ...

Understanding language requires tracking entities across discourse - i.e., knowing where things are and how they change, even when not explicitly stated. Whether language models perform such tracking ...

Weber's law is a rare quantitative regularity in psychology, yet its origins remain debated. Here we provide causal evidence that it arises from the more fundamental principle of efficient coding. Thi...

Abstract. Human memory is fleeting. As words are processed, the exact wordforms that make up incoming sentences are rapidly lost. Cognitive scientists have long believed that this limitation of workin...

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? Recent work has shown that image memorability is predicted by the magnitude of population response…

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

YouTube video by Studium Generale Maastricht University

Donders Debate with Micha Heilbron and Pim Haselager: Artificial neural network models are adequate mechanistic models of the mind

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the memorization

Author summary How does the brain make sense of the constant stream of visual information? A popular theory suggests the brain is not a passive receiver but an active predictor, constantly generating ...

Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...