René Terporten | Post doc
René received his BSc in Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2013. During this time, he followed an honours program to specialize in electrophysiological methods, including EEG and MEG. After receiving further training during the neuroscience research master program at the Radboud University, René started his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2015. During this period, he investigated the influence of language context onto ongoing brain dynamics during sentence reading. A series of experiments revealed event related potentials and oscillatory dynamics as being sensitive to contextual changes. The results pointed to a widespread network of brain areas, including not only brain areas commonly known to be dedicated to language processing, but also brain areas supporting cognitive control. In 2020, René joined the Motivation & Cognitive Control lab as a postdoc. Where he is investigating how we link ongoing experiences to events in memory, which are organized in a map-like manner in the hippocampus, serving as basis for narrative integration and interpretation. His project is embedded within the Language in Interaction consortium.