Postdoc
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

David completed his M.Sc. in Psychology at Leiden University and a second M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, studying the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual bistability using EEG. He then completed his PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Floris de Lange, in the Predictive Brain Lab at Donders Institute. During his PhD, David investigated how predictions shape sensory processing throughout the visual brain, using fMRI and computational modeling. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. de Lange’s lab, as part of the COGITATE project’s fMRI team, studying the neural correlates of consciousness. Next, also in Prof. de Lange’s lab, he investigated how semantic associations modulate sensory prediction and what kind of (visual) features are represented in prediction errors. Currently, David is working as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Jan Theeuwes’s lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, investigating how spatial statistical regularities shape neural processing.

David’s main research interest lies in understanding how we perceive the world around us. In particular, he studies the crucial role that prior knowledge and prediction play in shaping perception. Moreover, he is interested in how we derive prior knowledge from statistical regularities and how we automatically apply this knowledge to optimize sensory processing and behaviour.

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