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Dr. Matthijs Noordzij

TEACHING

I’m the theme coordinator for the master track Human Factors and Mediapsychology and I’m a member of the Exam committee of Psychology. I have obtained my University Teacher Qualification (UTQ) certificate.

In addition, I’m involved in the following courses as a coordinator and/ or teacher:

RESEARCH

I have a background in cognitive neuroscience research (see publications). Lately, I have been focusing more on when and how knowledge from cognitive neuroscience can be applied in industry and the health care sector. I specialize in two core themes: (1) measuring (neuro)fysiological signals during realistic scenarios. (2) Human-technology interaction with a clear focus on human-robot interaction.

PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed)

Publication list

Invited talks (international)

Noordzij, M.L. (2008, February). Brain mechanisms underlying human communication: a central role for pSTS? Invited talk given as part of the workshop: Perspectives on social and spatial perspective taking - in the eye of the beholder, Aarhus, Denmark.

Noordzij, M.L. (2008, May). Neurocognitive studies on the relation between language and space. Invited talk at the University of Birmingham, language and cognition group, UK.

Noordzij, M.L. (2008, July). Blind people can construct spatial mental models from complex spatial descriptions. Invited talk, which was part of the workshop: Human Spatial Cognition: New Avenues of Research, International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, Germany

Noordzij, M.L. (2008, November). Spatial communication: behavioural, EEG, and fMRI studies with the blind and sighted. Invited talk at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Noordzij, M.L. (2010, April). Differences in the production and comprehension of spatial terms. Invited talk given as part of the workshop: Spatial Behaviour and Linguistic Representation, Delmenhorst, Germany

Representative selection of first author talks and posters (international conferences)

Noordzij, M. L., Neggers, S. F. W., Van der Lubbe, R. H. J., Ramsey, N. F., & Postma, A. (2005). Neural correlates of processing spatial sentences. Poster presented at the 11^th annual meeting of the organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2006). Neural circuits underlying communicative actions. Oral presentation at the CogSys II meeting, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2006). Neural circuits underlying communicative actions. Poster presented at the 22^nd International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Château de Pizay, France.

Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2008). Brain mechanisms underlying human communication. Poster presented at the 15^th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience society, San Fransisco, US.

Noordzij, M. L., Van der Lubbe, R., & Postma, A. (2003). Strategic and automatic components in the processing of linguistic spatial relations. Proceedings of the XIII ESCOP, Granada, 277 (oral presentation).

Noordzij, M. L., Zuidhoek, S., & Postma, A. (2003). The influence of perspective on the properties of spatial mental models of blind and sighted people. Proceedings of the 9th EWIC, Pavia, 96 (poster).

Other Professional activities

Symposia

I have organized the following symposia:

- “Communication: evolution, models and the brain” (9th of June, 2006, ENP, Doorwerth, the Netherlands). Keynote speaker: Dr. Ivan Toni (FCDC Nijmegen)

- “Spatial language, blindness, and brain” (8th of June, 2007, ENP, Doorwerth, the Netherlands). Keynote speaker: Dr. Laura Carlson (Notre Dame University, USA).

Reviewing

I have acted as an ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals:

Acta Psychologica, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Behavioural Brain Research, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processing, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cortex, Current Anthropology, European Journal of Neurology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, IEEE:Transaction on Haptics, Learning and Individual Differences, Lecture notes in computer science, Memory & Cognition, Neuropsychologia, Neuroreport, Psychological Research, and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

CV (short)

1989-1995 Gymnasium, Apeldoorn.

1995-1996 Propaedeutic Econometrics, Tilburg University.

1996-1997 Propaedeutic Psychology, Tilburg University, cum laude.

1997-2000 Master Psycholoy, Tilburg University. Cognitive/ Experimental Psychology

-	Traineeship fMRI/ research at Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (2000)

-	Thesis: configural processes in face recognition,

2001-2004 PhD, Utrecht University, cum laude. Thesis: Communicating spatial information from verbal descriptions.

2005-2008 Post-doc researcher at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Radboud University Nijmegen). This appointment was part of the integrated European project “Joint Action Science and Technology.