Toward a Science of Consciousness

Apr 9-14, 2012

PLENARY

Victor Lamme

Victor Lamme, Cognitive Neuroscience Group – Amsterdam

I studied medicine, but never touched a patient. I started working on the brain right away. First, I did a PhD with Henk Spekreijse at the University of Amsterdam, where I studied figure-ground segregation mechanisms in the visual cortex of the monkey. After that, I did a postdoc at M.I.T. with Peter Schiller at the department of Brain and Cognitive Science. I returned to the Netherlands with a Royal Academy fellowhip. Then I became a group leader at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. During all those years, my research was mainly on awake monkeys, studying the neural mechanisms of perceptual organization and visual awareness. As of 2002, I am  full professor of cognitive neuroscience at the department of psychology of the University of Amsterdam. My research has since then focused entirely on consciousness, with a shift towards studying the phenomenon in human subjects, using EEG, fMRI, TMS and a variety of manipulations.