Join the BAND-lab!

Open position for a PhD student, to work on the project “Motor-auditory coupling in human beat- and rhythm perception.” Apply to join the BAND(-lab)! More info: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/286637/phd-candidate-for-the-project-motor-auditory-coupling-in-human-beat-and-rhythm-perception/

Our lab-director Sonja Kotz at Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile! (https://www.uv.cl/pdn/?id=10741)

School workshop: Vragen stellen aan het brein

Asking questions to the brain (Vragen stellen aan het brein): a 60min interactive workshop about the brain and rhythm. In February and May 2019 Katerina Kandylaki of BAND-Lab brought this workshop to 5th year class pupils at two local schools (Porta Mosana, Maastricht and Sophianum, Gulpen). She explained the basic concepts of imaging and stimulation … Read more School workshop: Vragen stellen aan het brein

The BAND-lab at Pint of Science

BAND-lab’s Xan Duggirala organised an event at the inaugural Pint of Science festival in May 2019 in Maastricht. The post-doc Katerina Kandylaki and the collaborator Andrea Ravignani presented their research in a fun and accessible way. We do the science and its communication. In the above picture the participants are clapping to the beats of … Read more The BAND-lab at Pint of Science

New paper: From story comprehension to the neurobiology of language

We are proud to present our new publication, the editorial of the special issue on story comprehension “From story comprehension to the neuorobiology of language” in the Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience journal of Taylor Francis. Three BAND-lab members were involved in this special issue. Sonja Kotz and Laura Verga wrote about “Putting language back into … Read more New paper: From story comprehension to the neurobiology of language

Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

I hold a Chair in Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN), Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology (NP&PP) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I serve as a board member and senior editor of major journals and actively review for all top journals in my fields of research (Nature, Science, Nature … Read more Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

Our Research

The primary goal of the group is to investigate the facilitatory effects of predictive cues in comprehension and its underlying processes. Focusing on rhythmic, formal, and emotional cues in communicative signals, we aim to identify factors that modulate the extraction of cues and thus the resulting predictions. Furthermore, we examine the functional and neuroanatomical links … Read more Our Research

Publications

[last update 13.09.19] Ravignani, A., Verga, L., & Greenfield, M. D. (2019). Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn‐taking. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, nyas.14230. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14230 Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Decreased sensitivity to changing durational parameters of syllable sequences in people who stutter. Language, … Read more Publications

Meet the BAND-Lab

Here you will find information about our members and the research we conduct.

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Contact Us

If you are interested in joining the BAND Laboratory or collaborating on our projects, please email us at:

bandlab.um@gmail.com or

sonja.kotz@maastrichtuniversity.nl (lab director)

Postal address:

Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER
Maastricht, The Netherlands

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