Together with Steven Scholte  (UvA Psychology Brain & Cognition) I am organizing a 8-day summer  school program at the UvA on Neuro-AI, featuring lectures by many emininent international researchers who integrate AI and cognitive neuroscience with the aim of understanding computations in the human mind and brain. Students get hands-on experience with implementing Neuro-AI techniques using dedicated tutorials each day. The school ends in a Symposium on June 27th  with again an excellent line-up of international speakers. More info on www.neuro-ai.eu. 

I was asked to comment on the recent developments in brain implants, as developed for example by NeuraLink and the potential future societal and scientific impacts of these developments. 

I was recently asked to talk about our 2022 JNeurosci paper in the Society for Neuroscience's Neuro Current podcast. The invitation came because the study was selected by SfN as a 'Spotlight' paper  that year. In the episode we talk about what motivated the paper, what we found and what it means, and why it's important (and exciting) to study neural computation! Here's a direct link, but it's also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  

I was asked to comment on this recent study, published in Psychological Science, showing human's inability to distinguish AI-generated faces from real human faces and actual overestimation of the human-ness of AI faces (compared to human faces). 

I explain how it is possible that we can reconstruct an image that a person has seen, or a sentence they have heard, from their brain activity, and in what way AI helps with this, in Episode 2 of the new podcast series Kennis & Co from NTR on public radio NPO1 (in Dutch).

I commented on recent developments in brain decoding in two recent Volkskrant pieces on mind-reading with fMRI and AI  that allows for reconstruction of images (here) and reconstruction of spoken words (narratives, here).

I was asked to comment on a recent study on brain reconstruction by Tagaki & Nishimoto (2023) that used a AI diffusion model to perform brain reconstruction of images based on fMRI responses Science News, Scientific American,and even a Japanese daily. 

Our ECoG paper that just came out in The Journal of Neuroscience was featured in news releases by the UvA and NYU, using this nice picture I put together for the occassion (brain image by rawpixel.com). It was picked up by some news outlets (e.g.  here), and I talked about in interviews in UvA's Folia magazine (in Dutch) and New Scientist (in Dutch; English translation here).

How is it possible that the brain misses a typo in a sentence even after reading it several times? This was the question I was asked to answer after a mistake was found in the engraving of a new war monument in the Dutch province of Gelderland.  The item is featured at the end of this TV episode of Editie NL, a news program from RTL 4 (in Dutch).

Looking for an expert on the intersection of AI and brain research? I am listed as a outreach contact via the UvA press office found here.