https://britta-wstnr.github.io/ Recent content on Vision, Memory, and Language Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/opensource/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/opensource/ Explaining papers [#2] It’s already been quite a while - but we published an opinion paper on the state of open-source software in neuroscience (Westner, McCloy, Larson, et al. 2025). Let me give you a short summary of our stance! Many researchers in human electrophysiology in neuroscience rely on open-source software to analyze their data. This software is mostly written and maintained by fellow researchers (as you can see on my about page, I am part of the team of one of these open-source software packages, MNE-Python). https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/subsamplingbeamf/ Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/subsamplingbeamf/ New series: Explaining papers [#1] Lately, we published a new paper on estimating functional connectivity from electrophysiological data (Westner, Kujala, Gross, & Schoffelen, 2024). Let me give you a short description of what we did! Estimating functional connectivity from electrophysiological (i.e., EEG or MEG) data means that one wants to see if any brain areas show activity that is somehow synchronised (although this synchronisation can be shifted in time: think of two people clapping together or clapping alternatingly - both is considered a synchronisation in the neuroscience world). https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/tutorialworkshop/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/tutorialworkshop/ Yesterday, I gave a workshop for Cutting Gardens tutors on how to teach MNE-Python. It was my first time teaching such a “meta workshop” - and below I am sharing some of the tips and thoughts I came up with during preparation. Part of it will be MNE-Python-specific, some of it should apply to any software workshop. What should happen before the tutorial takes place? There is a few key points that should happen before the tutorial takes place: https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/newresources/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:56:03 +0100 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/newresources/ There is a new content page on my website that links resources which I have created. At this point, it contains lectures and teaching material for MEG and EEG data analysis - but I will keep updating it whenever I create any new teaching material or tutorials. If M/EEG data analysis is something you want to learn more about: go check it out here! https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/mariecurie/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:20:10 +0200 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/mariecurie/ From 2020 to 2022, I was funded by a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the EU Horizon 2020 scheme. This allowed me to join the lab of Prof. Floris de Lange at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University in Nijmegen to research visual anticipation and its relation to memory. Unfortunately, this fellowship was overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, so progress on the project was a little slower than anticipated. https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/posts/about/ Picture credit: Marlene Meyer Hi! I am Britta Westner, an Assistant Professor at the Donders Institute and Radboudumc in The Netherlands. Here, I am working in the department of Medical Neuroscience. My current research focuses mainly on the intersection of language and memory. I am closely working together with the lab of Assoc.-Prof. Vitória Piai. Since my background is in visual neuroscience, I am naturally also interested in the intersection of language and vision. https://britta-wstnr.github.io/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/contact/ Physical address: Trigon building Kapittelweg 29 6525 EN Nijmegen If you want to write me an email, you can do so via: firstname.lastname [at] donders.ru.nl https://britta-wstnr.github.io/news/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/news/ Here, I report things like published papers, conferences I will or just have attended, workshops etc. as short news items. 2026 📗 Gave a workshop on workflow together with Frank van Caspel in the context of the Radboud Young Academy (February). Check out our blogpost about the workshop! 2025 💬 Was part of a panel discussion on reproducibility, organized by DGPs’ IGOR group (October). 💬 Took part in a Generative Adversarial Collaboration debate on benchmarks at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam (August). https://britta-wstnr.github.io/resources/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/resources/ On this page, I am collecting some resources that I created, mostly for data analysis of MEG and EEG data. Source reconstruction of M/EEG data If you would like to gain some experience with hands-on source reconstruction and best practices using MNE-Python, check out this material from the source reconstruction best practices workshop at CuttingEEGX in Nijmegen: https://github.com/britta-wstnr/CuttingEEGX_Workshop For the lab of Vitória Piai, I am creating a source reconstruction pipeline in FieldTrip. https://britta-wstnr.github.io/publications/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/publications/ You can find my full publication list on Google Scholar. I also have an ORCID. Preprints Westner, BU, Y Luo, and V Piai. 2026. Shared and distinct oscillatory fingerprints underlying episodic memory and word retrieval. Preprint on bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.01.715566. Peer-reviewed papers Chupina I, BU Westner, A Roelofs, and V Piai. 2025. Speakers preplan lexical and phonological representations in semantically constraining linguistic contexts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2025.2515831. Westner, BU*, DR McCloy*, E Larson*, A Gramfort, DS Katz, AM Smith, A Delorme, V Litvak, S Makeig, R Oostenveld, JM Schoffelen, and TM Tierney. https://britta-wstnr.github.io/teaching/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://britta-wstnr.github.io/teaching/ I am teaching the recording and processing of electrophysiological signals across different programs at Radboud University. I am also the deputy specialization coordinator for the Medical Neuroscience specializations within the Master Biomedical Sciences. Below, you can see in which courses I am currently teaching! Neuroimaging I Cognitive Neuroscience Research Master In this course, I am teaching several lectures as an introduction to EEG and MEG. We talk about acquisition, methods, and how this is used in neuroscience research.