Berry van den Berg
University of Groningen
Duke University
email: berryv -dot- dberg -at- gmail -dot- com
Download CV
About me
I am working on my Ph.D in cognitive neuroscience in the Woldorff lab in collaboration with the University of Groningen.
Research
We navigate through life in complex, dynamic environments,
in which the information around us continuously changes.
To efficiently deal with these changes, we use attentional-control processes
to select that stimulus information which is most important to us at each moment,
resulting in improved task performance on those inputs.
I use EEG and fMRI with healthy adults to study these processes. In the longer term,
I will look how these selection processes change in the healthy aging person.
Portfolio
Publications
Berry van den Berg, Benjamin Geib, Rene San Martin & Marty G. Woldorff (in prep). Stimulus-specific updating of cortical representations guide learning of stimulus-reward associations.
Berry van den Berg, Benjamin Geib, Rene San Martin, Monicque Lorist & Marty G. Woldorff (in prep). Feedback guided learning: prefeedback alpha modulates utilization of outcome information.
Joonkoo Park, Berry van den Berg, Crystal Chiang, Marty Woldorff, Elizabeth Brannon (accepted). Developmental Trajectory of Neural Specialization for Letter and Number Visual Processing. Developmental Science.
Cameron McKay, Berry van den Berg & Marty G. Woldorff (2017). Neural cascade of conflict processing: not just time-on-task! Neuropsychologia.
Berry van den Berg, Gregory Appelbaum, Kait Clark, Monicque Lorist & Marty G. Woldorff (2016). Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity. Scientific Reports. Download PDF
Francesco Marini, Berry van den Berg & Marty G. Woldorff (2015). Reward-prospect interacts with trial-by-trial preparation for potential distraction. Visual Cognition. Download PDF
Kait Clark, Gregory Appelbaum, Berry van den Berg, Stephen Mitroff & Marty G. Woldorff (2015). Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing. J Neurosci. Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, Ruth M. Krebs, Monicque M. Lorist & Marty G. Woldorff (2014). Utilization of reward-prospect enhances preparatory attention and reduces stimulus conflict. Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience. Download PDF
Poster Presentations
Berry van den Berg, Benjamin R. Geib, Rene San Martin, Monicque M. Lorist & Marty G. Woldorff. (2017). Cortical activity both pre- and post- feedback reflects learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. Download PDF
Florian Sense, Berry van den Berg, Don van Ravenzwaaij & Hedderik van Rijn. (2016). The Effect of Reward Prospect on a Personalized Fact-Learning System. Psychonomics, Boston. Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, Benjamin R. Geib, Rene San Martin & Marty G. Woldorff. (2016). Learning and updating of stimulus-reward associations. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York. Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, B. R. Geib, Rene San Martin & M.G. Woldorff. (2015). Learning and updating of stimulus-reward associations. NVP, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. Download PDF
C.C. McKay, B. van den Berg & M.G. Woldorff. (2015). Neural cascade of conflict processing: not just time-on-task! Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco,CA. Download PDF
B.R. Geib, S. Davis, B. van den Berg, R. Cabeza, & M.G. Woldorff. (2015). The impact of object-level statistics on subsequent memory effects Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco,CA. Download PDF
B. van den Berg, L.G. Appelbaum, K.Clark, S.R. Mitroff & M.G. Woldorff. (2015). The neural cascade of processing underlying response time variablility in visual search BCN new years meeting, Groningen, Download PDF
B. van den Berg, L.G. Appelbaum, K.Clark, S.R. Mitroff & M.G. Woldorff. (2014). The neural cascade of processing underlying response time variablility in visual search Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC. Download PDF
C.M. Giattino, B. van den Berg, F.B. Lee, M.M. Lorist & M.G. Woldorff. (2014). Reward- and conflict-induced interference: guiding and biasing of visual attention Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC. Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, Ruth Krebs, Monicque Lorist & Marty Woldorff. (2014). Decreases in oscillatory alpha power versus increases in slow negative waves: reward-prospect reveals differential roles in attentional preparation.Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston,MA. Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, Ruth Krebs, Monicque Lorist & Marty Woldorff. (2013). Enhanced utilization of reward-prospect leads to improved processing of stimulus conflict. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Download PDF
Awards and activities
- Teaching the class "brainwaves and cognition" with Marty Woldorff, fall 2014
- BCN Ph.D Grant, University of Groningen, 2012
- Leading the ERP/EEG workshop during the Duke Brain Awareness week, 2012-2014
- Introducing new graduate students to the EEG and ERP methodology during the Duke cognitive neuroscience grad students bootcamp, 2012-2014
Other Projects
Berry van den Berg (2011). Reasoning Strategies in Medical Diagnosis Minor project Download PDF
Berry van den Berg , George Prichard & Udo Böhm. (2011). Cookbook: Neural correlates of performing, imagining and watching finger movements. Functional neuroscience Download PDF
Berry van den Berg, (2010). The Relationship Between Attention and Visual Working Memory Capacity. Bachelor Thesis Download PDF
Personal
Climbing
Other activities that I enjoy is slackline (google if you don't know what it is), playing with computer systems, reading, playing chess, fussball. Oh yeah, I love to grab a beer with friends in a bar.