This research investigates to what extent canine behaviour, that is expressed prior to epileptic seizures in humans both by trained and untrained dogs, has a predictive value and whether olfactory biomarkers can be identified, reflective of internal changes within the patient before an epileptic seizure, that are potentially involved in this behaviour.
The systematic study and explanation of behavior is at the core of behavioral sciences in general and of psychology in particular. Brain and cognition form two explanatory levels for understanding behavior. We aim to address the challenge to study behavior quantitatively, including its relationship with the underlying neural substrate, in paradigms that are naturalistic yet provide experimental control over the involved cognitive processes. ...
Intraluminal profiling is a successful technique which allows you to measure drug concentrations in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract as a function of time by aspiration of fluids in the stomach and upper small intestine (i.e. duodenum). As many of these studies helped us to clarify the behavior of certain oral dosage forms, it was not always straightforward to correlate the gastrointestinal behavior of the drug with concentrations appearing in ...
This research project seeks to identify human travel behavior within a large database of trajectory data on the basis of sequence analysis. While sequence analysis has primarily been used in biochemistry to compare DNA sequences, it hs recently successfully been applied in transportation studies. The aim of this project is to explore the merits and limitations of sequence analysis for the study of spatio-temporal travel behaviour.
We investigate the relationship between behavior (posterror slowing), electrophysiology (ERN/Pe componentsin ERP signal) and dopamine (schizophrenic patients) in error monitoring. We use structural equation models that take into account cognitive (mediefrontal dopamine circuit) and non-cognitive sources of post-error slowing.
The doctoral research consists of two research projects, in which it will be investigated how cameras can be applied to monitor welfare and productivity in bird species. More specifically, it will be investigated to which extent camera-based automatic recognition and quantification of behaviour provide a means for timely monitoring of welfare and productivity and subsequent specific management to improve both welfare and productivity. ...