I abandoned the website for a little while, and meanwhile a lot has happened. Let me start with the most recent event. I was part of the organizing committee of MathPsych-ICCM 2023 in Amsterdam. The conference just concluded. In addition to organizing the conference, I was also part of the organizing committee of the Women… Continue reading International Conference on Cognitive Modeling/Society for Mathematical Psychology
On July 12th, Marieke participated in a dialogue with Mingyur Rinpoche and Antoine Lutz co-organized by Mind & Life Europe and Tergar Germany. It was a rich dialogue touching upon mind-wandering, craving, pain, monastic debate, and the nature of consciousness. You can watch the discussion here.
PhD student Hang Yang published his first PhD paper in which we used the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) to attempt to improve tracking of mind-wandering with EEG. We found, somewhat surprisingly, that the SSVEP was not very useful for tracking mind-wandering, but it was much better at tracking the "stickiness" of mind-wandering: how difficult… Continue reading Hang Yang’s first PhD paper published
In July, Marieke was honoured to be invited to be part of Mind & Life Europe's ENCECON meeting--a meeting where neuroscientists, microphenomenologists, philosophers, psychologists and more meet to talk about subjective experience, how this can be measured and what it means. This year's topic was intersubjectivity, which we explored through conversations, meditation practices and microphenomenological… Continue reading Marieke attends Mind & Life Europe’s ENCECON meeting
Marieke went to the EACLIPT conference on Clinical Psychology in Dresden. She learnt a lot about the most exciting developments in research in clinical psychology. She presented a poster on her models of depressive rumination, which also won her the best poster prize for its innovativeness.
Marieke van Vugt 
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