Wery van den Wildenberg

Wery van den Wildenberg

is assistant professor at the Department of Psychology. My research is funded by NWO grants (VENI, Open Competition, and VanGogh) and concerns the relation between brain and behaviour in humans. I study cognitive control processes that link perception to goal-directed action and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms from a cognitive neuroscience perspective.


Central themes are performance monitoring (the ability to adjust one’s actions upon signs of error or conflict) as well as interference control (the coordination of conflicting responses). Other research fields involve attentional control (the selection of task-relevant information), and the ability to interrupt ongoing or planned actions.

My research tools to track the dynamic control over voluntary actions are diverse, like reaction-time distribution analyses, neuropsychological tests, deep-brain stimulation and (single-pulse and repetitive) transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and EEG. My focus is on individual and group differences in the normal population (ranging from children to recreational drug users) as well as on impaired cognitive control in clinical groups such as ADHD, dyslexia, and Parkinson patients.

See the links below for info on research and publications.

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->link : http://www.wery.dds.nl

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->link : Acacia research team

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My research is funded by VENI and 'Open Competition' grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a Van Gogh grant (FR-NL Academie), and a research grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) USA.