Prof. Beatrice de Gelder, Room P 511, Postbus 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Tel. (013) 466 2167 E-mail: b.degelder@uvt.nl

 

January 2012

- Upcoming PhD defenses:

 

January 27: Charlotte Sinke - Perception of emotions from faces and bodies and the influence of context

Febuary 1: Bernard Stienen - The processing of bodily and facial expressions with and without visual awereness

 

There will be a symposium on Febuary 2 entitled "The non-conscious mind". Speakers will be dr. Jacob Jolij, dr. Marco Tamietto, Bernard Stienen and prof. dr. Salvatore Aglioti . Click here for the program.

 

November 2011

  1. -Amazing news: Beatrice de Gelder has received the ERC Advanced Grant!!! More info will be posted soon!


  1. -Article in press in the Journal of Neuroscience by Beatrice and Bernard, together with Matteo Candidi and Salvator Aglioti, on event-related repetitive TMS and detection of threatening human body postural changes.


  1. -The website of Brain and Emotion Laboratory Leuven is online. Please visit their website.


September 2011

  1. -Bernard Stienen has joined the group of Fiona Newell as a post-doc. Good luck in Dublin!


- A productive time for the lab with papers in PNAS, PLoS ONE (2), and Emotion. See the publications section for full versions of the articles.


July 2011:

  1. -The cover for the new book op Beatrice de Gelder has been released. More details will be revealed soon.


  1. -The episode of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman featuring Beatrice de Gelder and the lab was broadcasted on US television on July 6th. You can watch the episode by clicking on the frame below or here.






















June 2011

  1. -A correspondence was published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (de Gelder, van Honk, Tamietto) and a research article in Cerebral Cortex (Pichon, de Gelder & Grèzes).

  2. -Mariska Kret successfully defended her PhD-thesis! Congratulations to dr. Kret! We wish her good luck in Japan! At the moment she is working at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University.

April 2011

  1. -A correspondence was published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (de Gelder & Tamietto), a research article co-authored by Beatrice de Gelder and Akihiro Tanaka in Experimental Brain Research, and an article in Nature Neuroscience also co-authored by Beatrice de Gelder.

  2. -An article in the German version of Scientific American, Gehirn&Geist, is published. It is a translation of the original 2010 article in Scientific American by Beatrice de Gelder. Also, a Japanese translation is published.


March 2011:

  1. -Watch us soon on the Science Channel! The lab will star in an episode of the second season of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. The episode entitled Is there a sixth sense? will be broadcasted in the US on July 6th (10pm e/p) on the Science Channel. Click here for more information.