Time Perception during Lockdown

Did the pandemic lockdown mess with your experience of time? I wrote an article for Pursuit about how the COVID-19 pandemic (and lockdown specifically) influenced our experience of time. (2021). link.

 

Predicting the present

I was invited to write an article for The Conversation about what my research can tell us about how the brain uses prediction to allow us to function in the present, and how this can lead to us ‘seeing’ an expected present that never comes to pass. (2020). link.

 

TEDxUtrechtUniversity

I was invited to give a talk about time in the brain at TEDxUtrechtUniversity, an independently organized TED event with theme ‘Change from Within’. The aim of this talk was to make some of my fundamental research accessible for a broad audience. (2016). link

 

 Brein terug aan de macht
(Brain back in control)

Opinion piece in Mens@Org about habits and unconscious behaviour. (2015 – Dutch). link

 

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Tijd in het brein: de illusie van het nu.
(Time in the brain: the illusion of now)

Article in TvOO magazine (Tijdschrift voor Ontwikkeling in Organisaties) about time in the brain. (2015 – Dutch). link

 

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De dimensie tijd
(The dimension time)

Appearance in VPRO Labyrinth (Dutch national television science program) to discuss time in the brain. (2013 – Dutch). link

 

 

Understanding Awareness: it’s about time

Article in University College Utrecht Academic Magazine SCOPE (2013). link