New paper alert! ‘Auditory thalamus dysfunction and pathophysiology in tinnitus: a predictive network hypothesis’

Our new paper discusses the role of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGB) in tinnitus, while reflecting on animal and human studies. Tinnitus is prevalent in 10-15% in the general population and its underlying mechanism still remains elusive. Here we propose a more general aproach of adaptive sensory gating and temporal processing along the auditory pathway … Read more New paper alert! ‘Auditory thalamus dysfunction and pathophysiology in tinnitus: a predictive network hypothesis’

Interview – extramile_jenny

What does it mean to be a neuropsychologist? To answer that question better for you, Sonja Kotz had an interview UM student ambassador extramile_jenny! Please find the interview here.

New paper alert! ‘How does your brain process vocal emotions: in categories or dimensions?’

How does our brain process vocal emotions: in categories or dimensions?When we hear an emotionally charged voice, does our brain analyse the emotion as a separatecategory or as continuous dimensions? An international team of researchers has come up witha surprising answer to this question using a combination of neuroimaging techniques andcomputational models of the voice: … Read more New paper alert! ‘How does your brain process vocal emotions: in categories or dimensions?’

PhD position – UHasselt (UGhent & UM)

Interested in Rehabilitation Sciences? There is a PhD vacature in the REVAL Rehabilitation Research group, on auditory-motor coupling in MS, in the context of an FWO granted project. This PhD is situated within an interdisciplinary project, combining disciplines of rehabilitation sciences (UHassetl), musicology (UGent), and neurosciences (UMaastricht). Interested candidates should have a background in rehabilitation sciences, movement sciences, cognitive … Read more PhD position – UHasselt (UGhent & UM)

Talk by Sonja Kotz – Women in Neuroscience

Our lab director Sonja Kotz will give a keynote talk with the title “Cortico-subcortico-cortical circuitry and the timing of sensorimotor behaviour”at the Women in Neuroscience Symposium on Feb 11, 2021. This great initiative has been organized by PhD students of the Brainlab and registration is free. Here you can find more information about the symposium … Read more Talk by Sonja Kotz – Women in Neuroscience

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 (Neuroimage, Cortex, PLoS ONE, Time & Time Perception) and actively review for all top journals … 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 02.05.2021] A Finisguerra, LF Ticini, LP Kirsch, ES Cross, SA Kotz, C Urgesi (2021). Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks. Cognition. JF Johnson, M Belyk, M Schwartze, AP Pinheiro, & SA Kotz (2021). Expectancy changes the self‐monitoring of voice identity. European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15162 BL Giordano, C Whiting, … 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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