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Elia Formisano, professor of Neural Signal Analysis , together with his colleague Bruno Giordano at CNRS, France, have received the highly coveted Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. The project is titled Natural Auditory SCEnes in Humans and Machines (NASCE): Establishing the Neural...

Voor het UMagazine gingen we in gesprek met Peter De Weerd, hoogleraar en programmaleider van de nieuwe bachelor Brain Science.

Can learning to count with your fingers early on help you solve maths problem? Can the static noise in your brain predict how good you are at maths? Can we use a novel portable tool to measure brainwaves to study how children process numbers? UM’s Lisa Jonkman and Radboud University’s Nienke van Bueren...

Two Maastricht University (UM) scientists will receive a €850,000 Vidi grant for their research projects. This was announced by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) on Thursday. Researcher Laure Wynants (CAPHRI/ FHML) will work with her team on more reliable AI models for healthcare. And neuroscientist...

Our voices are unique, and a lot of our personality and character is embodied in our voice. But what if we lose connection to our own voice, what if we think it is someone else’s?

To still work out unexpected discoveries, seven projects are now receiving a small top-up of up to 30,000 euros per project thanks to NWO's Impact Explorer call. Elia Formisano of Maastricht University is one of the lucky ones.

FPN’s prof. dr. Rainer Goebel has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of € 2,5M for his research project Reading the Mind’s Eye: AI inspired personalised brain models of mental imagery . Goebel is among 255 researchers (out of 1829 applications in all domains) in Europe to receive the grant, and he is...

When nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is used recreationally, its presence remains detectable in the breath and bloodstream for at least 60 minutes after inhalation, and the development of an instrument to measure it is technically feasible. These were among the findings of a study at Maastricht University...

What happens in the brain of someone with a neurodevelopmental condition ? Eleonora Broggi, an alumna of the bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University, is investigating brain patterns in autistic people at King’s College London. Read how Eleonora uses Biomedical Sciences for her career in...

Dr. Federico De Martino of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Dr. De Martino will study hearing in context, as what we hear greatly relies on context.