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Arjen Alink
Research Staff, Memory & Perception
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Contact details
| E-mail address: | arjen.alink@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 340) |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1223 359062 |
| Address: | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF |
Research areas
I am mainly interested in learning more about the tricks that the brain uses to process it's overwhelming amount of sensory input. Hopefully, by learning more about neural information processing we would also learn more about the potentials and limitations of human cognition in health and disease.
At present I am exploring whether neural representations of stimulus identity and category are affected by visual context. In addition, I am assessing how much information one gains about fine grained neural activation patterns by using high resolution fMRI sequences.
CBU co-workers: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Marta Correia, Ian Charest and Bernhard Staresina
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Melloni L, van Leeuwen S, Alink A, Muller N (2012) Interaction between Bottom-up Saliency and Top-down Control: How Saliency Maps Are Created in the Human Brain. Cerbral Cortex in press
Alink A, Euler F, Galeano E, Krugliak A, Singer W, and Kohler A (2012) Auditory Motion Capturing Ambiguous Visual Motion. Front. Psychology 2:391. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00391
Alink, A.,Euler, F., Kriegeskorte, N., Singer, W. Kohler, A. (2011). Auditory motion direction encoded in auditory cortex and high-level visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, Early View
Alink, A., Schwiedrzik, C. M., Kohler, A., Singer, W., & Muckli, L. (2010). Stimulus predictability reduces responses in primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(8), 2960
Hein, G., Alink, A., Kleinschmidt, A., & Müller, N. G. (2009). The attentional blink modulates activity in the early visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(1), 197-206
Alink, A., Singer, W., & Muckli, L. (2008). Capture of auditory motion by vision is represented by an activation shift from auditory to visual motion cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(11), 2690-2697
Schwiedrzik, C. M., Alink, A., Kohler, A., Singer, W., & Muckli, L. (2007). A spatio-temporal interaction on the apparent motion trace. Vision Research, 47(28), 3424-3433
Bles, M., Alink, A., & Jansma, B. M. (2007). Neural aspects of cohort-size reduction during visual gating. Brain Research, 1150, 143-154
Hein, G., Alink, A., Kleinschmidt, A., & Müller, N. G. (2007). Competing neural responses for auditory and visual decisions. PloS One, 2(3), e320
Wibral, M., Muckli, L., Melnikovic, K., Scheller, B., Alink, A., Singer, W., & Munk, M. H. (2007). Time-dependent effects of hyperoxia on the BOLD fMRI signal in primate visual cortex and LGN. NeuroImage, 35(3), 1044-1063