Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
H.S. Scholte
dr. H.S. (Steven) Scholte
Programmagroep Brein en Cognitie Universiteit van Amsterdam


Weesperplein 4
1018 XA Amsterdam

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Biographical sketch

I was born in 1975 and attended high-school in Amsterdam (MLA). I studied philosophy, biology (MSc) and psychology (MA) at the University of Amsterdam . My master thesis work was done at the laboratorium of Fernando Lopes da Silva at the institute for epilepsy (language and motor research by means of MEG), Meer en Bosch and with Pieter Roelfsema at the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (figure-figure and figure-ground segmentation). I obtained my Ph.D. (titled Scene Segmentation) in 2003 with work at the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute and at the department of medical physics (AMC) with Henk Spekreijse and Victor Lamme as ‘promotoren’. In 2004 I became assistant professor at the psychology department of the University of Amsterdam and in 2009 associate professor.

Research interests

I have 3 main areas ofresearch. The last years I have worked on perceptual interpretation (the interplay between the physical stimulation of the eye and our history which forms the interpretation of the visual world) and the contents of short-term conscious experience. For this I have used psychophysics, EEG and fMRI.

Currently my research is moving in two new directions. The first: the way the brain encodes en compresses information and the way in which the brain uses structures in the world to efficiently code information. The second: the neuro-anamotical and physiological correlates of personality and intelligence.

Courses

I coordinate the courses NeuroImaging and NeuroImaging 2 and teach in the courses: perception & awareness and higher mental processes.

Publications

2012

  • Van Loon AM, Scholte HS., Van Gaal S,van der Hoort BJJ & Lamme VAF (2011). GABAA Agonist Reduces Visual Awareness: A Masking–EEG Experiment. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. In press.


2011
  • Kievit RA, Van Rooijen H, Wicherts JM, Waldorp LJ, Kan KJ, Scholte HS & Borsboom D (2011).Intelligence and the brain: A model-based approach. Cognitive Neuroscience. DOI:10.1080/17588928.2011.628383.
  • Jolij J, Scholte HS, Van Gaal S, Hodgson TL & Lamme VAF (2011). Act Quickly, Decide Later: Long-latency Visual Processing Underlies Perceptual Decisions but Not Reflexive Behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(12), 3734-3745.  
  • Rouw R, Scholte HS, Colizoli O. (2011). Brain areas involved in synaesthesia: A review. Journal of neuropsychology 5, 214-242.
  • Visser RM, Scholte HS & Kindt M (2011). Associative Learning Increases Trial-by-Trial Similarity of BOLD-MRI Patterns. Journal of Neuroscience 31, 12021-12028.  
  • Jahfari S, Waldorp L, Van Den Wildenberg W, Scholte HS, Ridderinkhof KR, Forstmann BU (2011). Effective Connectivity Reveals Important Roles for Both the Hyperdirect (Fronto-Subthalamic) and the Indirect (Fronto-Striatal-Pallidal) Fronto-Basal Ganglia Pathways during Response Inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience 31, 6891-6899.  
  • Sligte IG, Wokke ME, Tesselaar JP, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2011). Magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dissociates fragile visual short-term memory from visual working memory. Neuropsychologia 49, 1578-1588.  
  • Kievit RA, Romeijn JW, Waldorp LJ, Wicherts JM, Scholte HS & Borsboom D (2011). Mind the Gap: A Psychometric Approach to the Reduction Problem. Psychological Inquiry 22, 67-87.  
  • Kievit RA, Romeijn JW, Waldorp LJ, Wicherts JM, Scholte HS & Borsboom D (2011). Modeling Mind and Matter: Reductionism and Psychological Measurement in Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychological Inquiry 22, 139-157.  
  • Wokke ME, VanGaal S, Scholte HS, Ridderinkhof KR, Lamme VAF (2011). The flexible nature of unconsicous cognition. Plos ONE 6(9): e25729.  
  • Van Gaal S, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF, Fahrenfort JJ & Ridderinkhof KR (2011). Pre-SMA Gray-matter Density Predicts Individual Differences in Action Selection in the Face of Conscious and Unconscious Response Conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 382-390.


2010  
  • Sligte IG, Vandenbroucke ARE, Scholte HS & Lamme VAF (2010). Detailed Sensory Memory, Sloppy Working Memory. Frontiers in psychology 1, 175.   
  • Rouw R, Scholte HS (2010). Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Synesthetic Color Experience. Journal of Neuroscience 30, 18, 6205-6213.  
  • Van Gaal S, Ridderinkhof KR, Scholte HS & Lamme VAF (2010). Unconscious activation of the prefrontal no-go network. Journal of Neuroscience 30, 4143-4150. 


2009  
  • Sligte IG, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2009). V4 Activity predicts the strength of visual short-term memory representations. Journal of Neuroscience 29, 7432-7438.  
  • Vandenbroucke MWG, Scholte HS, v Engeland H, Lamme, VAF (2009). A new approach to the study of detail perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Investigating visual feedforward, horizontaland feedback processing. Vision Research 49, 1006-1016.
  • Scholte HS, Ghebreab S, Smeulders A, Lamme VAF (2009). Brain responses strongly correlate with Weibull image statistics when processing natural images. http://journalofvision.org/9/4/29/


2008   
  • Forstmann B.U., Jahfari S., Scholte H.S., Wolfensteller U., Van den Wildenberg W.P.M., Ridderinkhof K.R. (2008). Function and Structure of the Right Inferior Frontal Cortex Predict Individual Differences in Response Inhibition: A Model-Based Approach. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(39):9790-9796.   
  • Van Gaal S, Ridderinkhof K.R., Fahrenfort J.J., Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2008). Frontal Cortex Mediates Unconsciously Triggered Inhibitory Control. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(32):8053-8062.
  • Scholte HS, Jolij J, Fahrenfort JJ & Lamme VAF (2008). Feedforward and Recurrent Processing in Scene Segmentation: Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 11, 2097-2109   
  • Sligte IG, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2008). Are there multiple visual short-term memory stores. Plos One 3(2): e1699.   
  • Fahrenfort JJ, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2008) The spatiotemporal profile of cortical processing leading up to visual perception. Journal of Vision 8(1), 12.   
  • Fahrenfort JJ, Scholte HS, Lamme VAF (2008). Masking disrupts reentrant processing in human visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19, 1488-1497.   
  • Van Strien NM, Scholte HS, Witter MP (2008) Activation of the human medial temporal lobes by stereoscopic depth cues. NeuroImage 40(4), 1815-1823.  
  • Vandenbroucke MWG, Scholte HS, Van Engeland H, Lamme VAF, Kemner C (2008). A neural substrate for atypical low-level visual processing in autism spectrum disorder. Brain 131, 1013-1024.  
  • Vandenbroucke MWG, Scholte HS, Van Engeland H, Lamme VAF, Kemner C (2008). Coherent versus component motion perception in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism developmental disorders 38, 941-949.


2007   
  • Rouw R, Scholte HS (2007) Increased structural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia. Nature Neuroscience 10, 792-797. 
2006
  • Scholte HS, Witteveen SC, Spekreijse H, Lamme VAF (2006). The influence of inattention on the neural correlates of scene segmentation. Brain Research, 1076, 106-115.