Professor José van Velzen

Professor Jos茅 van Velzen

José’s research focuses on multisensory processing, spatial attention, body representation and sensory processing in the context of motor behaviour.

Staff details

Position

Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Society and Innovation.

Summary

Jos茅 is a Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at 樱桃视频 and Associate Dean of the Faculty for Society and Innovation.

Jos茅鈥檚 research focuses on sensory processing, spatial attention, multisensory processing, body representation and sensory processing in the context of motor behaviour.

She uses behavioural and electrophysiological (EEG) measures to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in these processes in neurotypical individuals and in adults with impaired motor function (e.g. Developmental Coordination Disorder).

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Vibell, Jonas; Gillmeister, Helge; Sel, Alejandra; Haggarty, Connor J; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Forster, Bettina. 2023. Electroencephalography of Touch. In: Nicholas Paul Holmes, ed. Somatosensory Research Methods. New York: Humana, pp. 431-449. ISBN 9781071630679
Driver, Jon; Eimer, Martin; Macaluso, E. and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2004. The neurobiology of human spatial attention. In: Nancy Kanwisher and John Duncan, eds. Functional neuroimaging of visual cognition. Attention & performance XX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 267-300. ISBN 0198528450

Article

Orioli, Giulia; Parisi, Irene; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Bremner, Andrew J.. 2023. Visual objects approaching the body modulate subsequent somatosensory processing at 4 months of age. Scientific Reports, 13, 19300. ISSN 2045-2322
Caggiano, Pietro; Grossi, Giordana; Carlacci De Mattia, Lucilla; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Cocchini, Gianna. 2022. Objects with motor valence affect the visual processing of human body parts: Evidence from behavioural and ERP studies. Cortex, 153, pp. 194-206. ISSN 0010-9452
Mayes, William; Gentle, Judith; Parisi, Irene; Dixon, Laura; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Violante, Ines. 2021. Top-down Inhibitory Motor Control is Preserved in Adults with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Developmental Neuropsychology, 46(6), pp. 409-424. ISSN 8756-5641

Job, Xavier; Brady, Daniel; De Fockert, J. W.; Di Bernardi Luft, Caroline; Hill, Elisabeth L. and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2019. Adults with probable Developmental Coordination Disorder selectively process early visual, but not tactile information during action preparation. An electrophysiological study. Human Movement Science, 66, pp. 631-644. ISSN 0167-9457
Rigato, Silvia; Banissy, Michael J.; Romanska, Aleksandra; Thomas, Rhiannon; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Bremner, Andrew J.. 2019. Cortical signatures of vicarious tactile experience in four-month-old infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, pp. 75-80. ISSN 1878-9293
Job, Xavier; Van Velzen, Jose L. and De Fockert, J. W.. 2017. Grasp preparation modulates early visual processing of size and detection of local/global stimulus features. Cortex, 96, pp. 46-58. ISSN 0010-9452
Eardley, Alison F.; Darling, Stephen; Dumper, Paul; Browne, David and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2017. Related but different: Examining pseudoneglect in audition, touch and vision. Brain and Cognition, 113, pp. 164-171. ISSN 0278-2626
Job, Xavier; De Fockert, J. W. and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2016. Action preparation modulates sensory perception in unseen personal space: an electrophysiological investigation. Neuropsychologia, 89, pp. 445-452. ISSN 0028-3932
Moynihan, Jennifer; Rose, Mark; Van Velzen, Jose L. and De Fockert, J. W.. 2016. Local and global visual processing and eating disorder traits: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology, 115, pp. 27-34. ISSN 0301-0511
Mason, Luke; Linnell, Karina J; Davis, Robert and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2015. Visual processing at goal and effector locations is dynamically enhanced during motor preparation. Neuroimage, 117, pp. 243-249. ISSN 1053-8119
Bremner, Andrew J. and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2015. Sensorimotor control: Retuning the body鈥搘orld interface. Current Biology, 25(4), R159-R161.
Rigato, S.; Begum Ali, J.; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Bremner, Andrew J.. 2014. The neural basis of somatosensory remapping develops in human infancy. Current Biology, 24(11), pp. 1222-1226. ISSN 0960-9822
Rigato, Silvia; Bremner, Andrew J.; Mason, Luke; Pickering, Alan; Davis, Robert and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2013. The electrophysiological time course of somatosensory spatial remapping: vision of the hands modulates effects of posture on somatosensory evoked potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience, 38(6), pp. 2884-2892. ISSN 0953-816X
Murphy, S.; Van Velzen, Jose L. and De Fockert, J. W.. 2012. The role of perceptual load in action affordance by ignored objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, ISSN 1069-9384
Eardley, Alison F. and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2011. Event-related potential evidence for the use of external coordinates in the preparation of tactile attention by the early blind. European Journal Of Neuroscience, 33(10), pp. 1897-1907. ISSN 0953-816X
Gherri, Elena; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Eimer, Martin. 2009. The instructed context of a motor task modulates covert response preparation and shifts of spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 46(3), pp. 655-667. ISSN 0048-5772
De Fockert, J. W.; Ramchurn, Anusha; Van Velzen, Jose L.; Bergstr枚m, Zara M. and Bunce, David. 2009. Behavioral and ERP evidence of greater distractor processing in old age. Brain Research, 1282, pp. 67-73. ISSN 00068993
Kiss, Monika; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Eimer, Martin. 2008. The N2pc component and its links to attention shifts and spatially selective visual processing. Psychophysiology, 45(2), pp. 240-249. ISSN 0048-5772
Gherri, Elena; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Eimer, Martin. 2007. Dissociating effector and movement direction selection during the preparation of manual reaching movements: Evidence from lateralized ERP components. Clinical Neurophysiology, 118(9), pp. 2031-2049. ISSN 13882457
Eimer, Martin; Van Velzen, Jose L.; Gherri, Elena and Press, Clare. 2007. ERP correlates of shared control mechanisms involved in saccade preparation and in covert attention. Brain Research, 1135(1), pp. 154-166. ISSN 00068993
Kennett, Steffan; Van Velzen, Jose L.; Eimer, Martin and Driver, Jon. 2007. Disentangling gaze shifts from preparatory ERP effects during spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 44(1), pp. 69-78. ISSN 0048-5772
Eimer, Martin; Van Velzen, Jose L.; Gherri, Elena and Press, Clare. 2006. Manual response preparation and saccade programming are linked to attention shifts: ERP evidence for covert attentional orienting and spatially specific modulations of visual processing. Brain Research, 1105(1), pp. 7-19. ISSN 00068993
Van Velzen, Jose L.; Eardley, A.; Forster, B. and Eimer, M.. 2006. Shifts of attention in the early blind: An ERP study of attentional control processes in the absence of visual spatial information. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), pp. 2533-2546. ISSN 00283932
Eimer, Martin and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2006. Covert manual response preparation triggers attentional modulations of visual but not auditory processing. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117(5), pp. 1063-1074. ISSN 13882457
Van Velzen, Jose L.; Gherri, Elena and Eimer, Martin. 2006. ERP effects of movement preparation on visual processing: attention shifts to the hand, not the goal. Cognitive Processing, 7(S1), pp. 100-101. ISSN 1612-4782
Eimer, Martin and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2005. Spatial tuning of tactile attention modulates visual processing within hemifields: an ERP investigation of crossmodal attention. Experimental Brain Research, 166(3-4), pp. 402-410. ISSN 0014-4819
Macaluso, E.; Driver, J.; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Eimer, Martin. 2005. Influence of gaze direction on crossmodal modulation of visual ERPS by endogenous tactile spatial attention. Cognitive Brain Research, 23(2-3), pp. 406-417. ISSN 09266410
Althaus, Monika; Gomarus, H. Karin; Wijers, Albertus; Mulder, Lambertus J. M.; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Minderaa, Ruud B.. 2005. Cortical and Autonomic Correlates of Visual Selective Attention in Introverted and Extraverted Children. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19(1), pp. 35-49. ISSN 0269-8803
Eimer, Martin; Forster, Bettina; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Prabhu, Gita. 2005. Covert manual response preparation triggers attentional shifts: ERP evidence for the premotor theory of attention. Neuropsychologia, 43(6), pp. 957-966. ISSN 00283932
Van Velzen, Jose L.; Eimer, M. and Driver, J.. 2004. ERP Evidence for Cross-Modal Audiovisual Effects of Endogenous Spatial Attention within Hemifields. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(2), pp. 272-288. ISSN 0898929X
Eimer, Martin; Forster, Bettina and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2003. Anterior and posterior attentional control systems use different spatial reference frames: ERP evidence from covert tactile-spatial orienting. Psychophysiology, 40(6), pp. 924-933. ISSN 00485772
Eimer, Martin; Forster, Bettina and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2003. Shifts of attention in light and in darkness: an ERP study of supramodal attentional control and crossmodal links in spatial attention. Cognitive Brain Research, 15(3), pp. 308-323. ISSN 09266410
Van Velzen, Jose L. and Eimer, M.. 2003. Early posterior ERP components do not reflect the control of attentional shifts towards expected peripheral events. Psychophysiology, 40(5), pp. 827-831. ISSN 00485772
Van Velzen, Jose L.; Forster, Bettina and Eimer, Martin. 2002. Temporal dynamics of lateralized ERP components elicited during endogenous attentional shifts to relevant tactile events. Psychophysiology, 39(6), pp. 874-878. ISSN 0048-5772
Eimer, Martin and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2002. Crossmodal links in spatial attention are mediated by supramodal control processes: Evidence from event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 39, pp. 437-449. ISSN 0048-5772
Eimer, Martin; Van Velzen, Jose L. and Driver, Jon. 2002. Cross-Modal Interactions between Audition, Touch, and Vision in Endogenous Spatial Attention: ERP Evidence on Preparatory States and Sensory Modulations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(2), pp. 254-271. ISSN 0898-929X
Eimer, Martin; Maravita, Angelo; Van Velzen, Jose L.; Husain, Masud and Driver, Jon. 2002. The electrophysiology of tactile extinction: ERP correlates of unconscious somatosensory processing. Neuropsychologia, 40(13), pp. 2438-2447. ISSN 00283932

Research Interests

Jos茅 is a member of our Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Group. Key areas of interest are:

Spatial attention
Body representation
Sensory processing in the context of motor behaviour
Multisensory processing
Motor control
Development Coordination Disorder
Electrophysiology

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