Background:

  • from 2021 on Associate Professor, Maastricht University, Cognitive Neuroscience

  • from 2023 on Senior Researcher (Honorary), Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Brain & Nerve center

  • from 2017 on Senior Researcher (Honorary), Dutch brain institute (NIN), KNAW Amsterdam, Vision & Cognition

  • 2015 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Cognitive Neuroscience

  • 2013–2017 Postdoc (Honorary), Dutch brain institute (NIN), KNAW Amsterdam, Neuroimaging & Neuromodeling

  • 2009–2013 Postdoc, Dutch brain institute (NIN), KNAW Amsterdam, Neuroimaging & Neuromodeling

  • 2008–2015 Postdoc, Maastricht University, Cognitive Neuroscience

  • 2007 PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University

  • BSc Computer Science, Open University

  • MSc & BSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University

Interests
  • cognitive neuroscience
  • memory, attention, and perception
  • neuroimaging techniques (ultra-high field fMRI, human intracranial recordings, EEG, non-invase brain stimulation, multimodal imaging)
  • computational neuroscience

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator:

  • Judith Peters

PhD-students

  • Kris Evers
  • Johannes Franz
  • Alessandra Pizzuti
  • Maite van der Miesen
  • XinXin Zhang
  • Caroline Benjamins

previous PhD-students

  • dr. Mario Senden (now Assistant Professor at Maastricht University; CCN group
  • dr. Arne Seehaus (now Big-Data Analyst-Consultant at Advisori)
  • dr. Anita Rasmijn-Tursic (now healthcare MRI scientist at Philips)

Recent Publications

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Dijksterhuis*, Self*, Possel, Peters et al (2024). Pronouns reactivate conceptual representations in human hippocampal neurons. Science.

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Judith Peters, Eline Vansina, Peter De Weerd, Dorien Maas (2024). Multimodal Imaging of Brain Plasticity. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity.

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Van der Miesen, M; Joosten, B; Kaas, A; Linden, D; Peters, J; Vossen, C (2024). Habituation to pain: self-report, EEG and fMRI in healthy individuals. A scoping review and future recommendations. Pain.

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Munoz-Moldes, Tursic, Luhrs, Eck, Andonegui-Benitez, Peters, Cleeremans, Goebel (2024). Online self-evaluation of fMRI-based neurofeedback performance. Philosophical Transactions B (in press).

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Alessandra Pizzuti, Laurentius (Renzo) Huber, Omer Faruk Gulban, Amaia Benitez-Andonegui, Judith Peters, Rainer Goebel (2023). Imaging the columnar functional organization of human area MT+ to axis-of-motion stimuli using VASO at 7 Tesla. Cerebral cortex.

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Kris Evers, Judith Peters, Mario Senden (2023). Layered Structure of Cortex Explains Reversal Dynamics in Bistable Perception. bioRxiv.

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Peters, Reithler (2022). Hippocampal activity in working memory tasks: sparse, yet relevant. Cognitive Neuroscience.

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Soyman, Bruls, Ioumpa, Müller-Pinzler, Gallo, Qin, van Straaten, Self, Peters, Possel, Onuki, Baayen, Idema, Keysers, Gazzola (2022). Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula. eLife.

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Leila Reddy, Matthew W. Self, Benedikt Zoefel, Marlène Poncet, Jessy K. Possel, Judith C. Peters, Johannes C. Baayen, Sander Idema, Rufin VanRullen, Pieter R. Roelfsema (2021). Theta-phase dependent neuronal coding during sequence learning in human single neurons. Nature Communications.

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Leila Reddy, Benedikt Zoefel, Jessy K. Possel, Judith Peters, Doris E. Dijksterhuis, Marlène Poncet, Elisabeth C.W. van Straaten, Johannes C. Baayen, Sander Idema, Matthew W. Self (2021). Human hippocampal neurons track moments in a sequence of events. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Kris Evers, Judith Peters, Mario Senden (2021). Cortical Synchrony as a Mechanism of Collinear Facilitation and Suppression in Early Visual Cortex. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

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Hester Breman, Joost Mulders, Levin Fritz, Judith Peters, John Pyles, Judith Eck, Matteo Bastiani, Alard Roebroeck, John Ashburner, Rainer Goebel (2020). An image registration-based method for epi distortion correction based on opposite phase encoding (COPE). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).

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Mario E. Archila-Meléndez, Giancarlo Valente, Erik D. Gommer, João M. Correia, Sanne ten Oever, Judith C. Peters, Joel Reithler, Marc P.H. Hendriks, William Cornejo Ochoa, Olaf E.M.G. Schijns, Jim T.A. Dings, Danny M.W. Hilkman, Rob P.W. Rouhl, Bernadette M. Jansma, Vivianne H.J.M. van Kranen-Mastenbroek, Mark J. Roberts (2020). Combining Gamma With Alpha and Beta Power Modulation for Enhanced Cortical Mapping in Patients With Focal Epilepsy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

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Judith C. Peters, Joel Reithler, Tom A.de Graaf, Teresa Schuhmann, Rainer Goebel, Alexander T. Sack (2020). Concurrent human TMS-EEG-fMRI enables monitoring of oscillatory brain state-dependent gating of cortico-subcortical network activity. Communications Biology.

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Mario Senden, Judith Peters, Florian Röhrbein, Gustavo Deco, Rainer Goebel (2020). Editorial: The Embodied Brain: Computational Mechanisms of Integrated Sensorimotor Interactions With a Dynamic Environment. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

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Jop Beugels*, Job van den Hurk*, Judith C. Peters, Esther M. Heuts, Stefania M.H. Tuinder, Rainer Goebel, René R.W.J. van der Hulst (2020). Somatotopic mapping of the human breast using 7 T functional MRI. NeuroImage.

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Code

  • As member of the Data Governance Working Group in the Human Brain Project (since 2019) I contribute to EBRAINS. EBRAINS (https://ebrains.eu/) is an open-source platform providing free access to neuroscientific data, brain atlases, simulation frameworks, brain-inspired technologies and medical data analytics. You can find contributed datasets by searching for my name in the database.

  • simultaneous TMS-EEG-fMRI in cortico-subcortical motor network (paper, code)

  • various repositories on github

Courses

Coordinator (and course developer):

misc.:

  • Supervision of internships, projects
  • lecturer at summerschools
  • tutor, academic advisor, etc.

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