Tomas Knapen

@Tknapen

I do Visual Neuroscience Research with fMRI, E/MEG, psychophysics, and eye movement recordings.

Amsterdam, Netherlands tknapen.github.io Joined February 2009

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Join our 2-day workshop on population receptive field modeling, November 5th and 6th 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal. You will learn state-of-the-art pRF modeling of sensory & cognitive tuning, as well as connectivity. Register & info at tinyurl.com/coimbraprf

Tomas Knapen @Tknapen Nov 26, 2025

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Tomas Knapen @Tknapen Oct 25, 2024

In this TINS review we (w/@cvnlab, @elimerriam, & @eline_kupers) argue that *intensive* (many hours of data) fMRI of single individuals for single-voxel model fitting is a paradigm shift for cognitive/computational neuroimaging. tinyurl.com/intensivefmri 1/2

Tomas Knapen @Tknapen Oct 23, 2024

So proud of this preprint! @HedgerResearch has analysed over 700 hours of 7T fMRI data from HCP (retinotopy, movie, rest) and NSD to discover a sequence of novel, vicariously activated somatotopic maps tiling visual cortex.

Nick_Hedger_Research @HedgerResearch Oct 23, 2024

🧵New preprint with @cvnlab, @tnaselar & @tknapen: How does the brain connect vision and touch representations to infuse vision with body-related meaning? TLDR: We found high-level visual cortex is tiled with maps 'multiplexing' vision and touch. tinyurl.com/seesoma 1/n
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Tomas Knapen @Tknapen Jul 29, 2024

Stale, traditional concepts are holding us back in cognitive neuroscience. @NauMatt and colleagues beautifully argue how we can break free from our conceptual straight jackets. Must read!

Matthias Nau @NauMatt Jul 29, 2024

#CogNeuro seeks unified theories of behavioral, physiological, and mental states. To this aim, our @NatureNeuro Perspective proposes a new framework centered on #TaskDemands & across-task generalization. nature.com/articles/s4159…

w/@Alex_C_Schmid @smkaps @Chris_I_Baker D.Kravitz🧵
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