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Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics
Cees van LEEUWEN
Laboratory Head
Cees van LEEUWEN (Ph.D.)
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Research Areas

The Perceptual Dynamics Laboratory takes a "complex systems" approach to visual information processing. Complex systems are dynamical systems with large numbers of degrees of freedom. Their dynamics is characterized by spatio-temporal intermittency, chaotic itinerancy, and self-organized criticality. The aim of the laboratory is two-fold: to develop models of the human visuo-perceptual system based on the complex systems approach and to test the assumptions of these models in laboratory experiments. Accordingly, the laboratory consists of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, reflecting on a small scale the multi-disciplinary character of BSI.

Research Subject

  1. Basic visual processing functions
  2. Complex visual functions
  3. Self-organization of functional brain architecture

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List of Selected Publications

  1. Gepshtein S., Tyukin I., and Kubovy M.
    "The economics of motion perception and invariants of visual sensitivity"
    Journal of Vision,. 78, 8-1-8-18 (2007).
  2. Gepshtein S. and Kubovy M.
    "The lawful perception of apparent motion"
    Journal of Vision, 78, 9-1-9-15 (2007).
  3. Gong P. and van Leeuwen C.
    "Dynamically maintained spike timing sequences in networks of pulse-coupled oscillators with delays"
    Physical Review Letters, 98, 048104-1-048104-4 (2007).
  4. Gong P., Nikolaev A., and van Leeuwen C.
    "Intermittent dynamics underlying the intrinsic fluctuations of the collective synchronization patterns in electrocortical activity"
    Physical Review E, 76, 011904-1-011904-7 (2007).
  5. Ito J.,, Nikolaev A, and van Leeuwen C,
    "Dynamics of spontaneous transitions between global brain states"
    Human Brain Mapping, 28, 904-913 (2007).
  6. Lachmann T, and van Leeuwen C,
    "Different letter-processing strategies in diagnostic subgroups of developmental dyslexia"
    Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 730-744 (2008).
  7. Nikolaev A., Gepshtein S,,, Kubovy M., and van Leeuwen C.
    "Dissociation of early evoked cortical activity in perceptual grouping"
    Experimental Brain Research, 186, 1, 107-122 (2008).
  8. Nikolaev A., Ziessler M., Dimova K., and van Leeuwen C.
    "Anticipated action consequences as a nexus between action and perception: evidence from event-related potentials"
    Biological Psychology, 78, 1, 53-65 (2008).
  9. Tyukin I., Prokhorov D., and van Leeuwen C.
    "Adaptation and parameter estimation in systems with unstable target dynamics and nonlinear parametrization"
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52, 9, 1543-1559 (2007)
  10. Tyukin I., Prokhorov D., and van Leeuwen C.
    "Adaptive classification of temporal signals in fixed-weight recurrent neural networks: An existence proof"
    Neural Computation, 20, 2564-2596 (2008).
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