Onno van der Groen (lab alumnus)

Position: PhD Student (2016-2017; here on a 12 month exchange from ETH Zurich)

Webpage at ETH Zurich: http://www.ncm.hest.ethz.ch/the-group/team/onno-van-der-groen.html

Supervisors

Research while in the Mattingley Lab

Title: The Enhancement of Sensory Perception through Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation How does noise influence central mechanisms of sensory information processing in humans? This intriguing question is the overarching motivation for the present research project.

Research interests

Stochastic-Resonance
tRNS
Multisensory Perception
Brain-imaging

Published papers

van der Groen, O., & Wenderoth, N. (2016). Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation of Visual Cortex: Stochastic Resonance Enhances Central Mechanisms of Perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(19), 5289-5298.

Liu, Q., Balsters, J. H., Baechinger, M., van der Groen, O., Wenderoth, N., & Mantini, D. (2015). Estimating a neutral reference for electroencephalographic recordings: the importance of using a high-density montage and a realistic head model. Journal of Neural Engineering, 12(5), 056012.

van der Groen, O., van der Burg, E., Lunghi, C., Alais, D. (2013). Touch Influences Visual Perception with a Tight Orientation-Tuning. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79558. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079558

Conference presentations

van der Groen, O., & Wenderoth, N. (2015, January). Random noise stimulation of the cortex: stochastic resonance enhances central mechanisms of perception. NeuroModulation 2015 (NeuroModec), New York City, USA.

van der Groen, O., Wenderoth, N. (2014, November). Random noise stimulation of the cortex: stochastic resonance enhances central mechanisms of perception. Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Washington DC, USA.

van der Groen, O., Belopolsky, A. V. (2012, April). Visuomotor priming is modulated by action understanding. 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia.