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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It is a truth mathematically provable, that as the number of people who deserve to be thanked increases, the probability that one of them will be forgotten rapidly approaches 100%. But let’s try to beat the odds!

Janneke, thank you, first of all, for offering me a place in your lab, and for your supervision

and advice over the last few years. Thank you also for everything you have taught me, by instruction or by example. I admire your knowledge about the work and the people in our field, and your ability to determine those questions that are not just important and unanswered, but ripe to be answered. I have learned many new skills and techniques under your guidance, and your dedicated feedback has made me a better writer and presenter. In addition to all this, you have an unmatched enthusiasm for science, your work and your students. When other people might have taken a step back, you kept at it and were always there for us. Resilience is your motto, and you certainly practice what you preach. I have greatly enjoyed working with you over the last years, and I’m glad we’ll continue to do so for a while longer.

Wei Ji & Mike, all those probability distributions would have stayed hidden within the

brains of our participants, never to be decoded, had it not been for our collaboration. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your time, and for your (often short-notice) feedback on manuscripts and other submissions. I have learned a great deal from you both.

Wyeth, although it wasn’t very long, my time in your lab and our collaboration

afterwards were very formative for me. I really appreciated your patience and precision of thinking, regularly sitting down with me for hours to walk through every detail of some computation or algorithm. If nothing else, I’ll never forget that a Gaussian in the spatial domain is a Gaussian in the Fourier domain!

Frans, some important seeds for my subsequent academic life were sown during your

course on perception at UCU. Not only was this my first proper introduction to the field of visual neuroscience, but your personal encouragement pushed me to pursue a Master’s degree abroad, and thus played a great role in bringing me where I am today. I would like to thank all past and present members and affiliates of the Visual

Computation Group, for the scientific discussions we’ve had over the years, and the

feedback and advice you gave me. In order of appearance (I think), thank you Sam,

Sander, Rosanne, Tim, Klaudia, Jasper, Sri, Koen, Ilona (on iPad ;-) ), Joachim, Denise, Andrea, Juraj, Laura and Andrey!

Many of my Wednesday evenings were spent not knowing the answers to trivia questions. Thankfully my team mates from Rank Deficient were there to offset this ignorance, so much so that we eventually gathered many trophies of disgusting booze (much like a real trophy, Apfelkorn is best left on a shelf to look at, and never consumed). When we were full rank, our numbers included Sean, Tom, René, Ruud, Richard and

Flora!

While Wednesdays were for quizzing, Fridays were for FADding, some Dagjes were Uit, and all days were Donders-days. This is where the acknowledgements-theorem from before is most likely to show through, because there were so very many of you, but thank you for being Social Donderians, Lennart, Inge, Eelco, Verena, Tom, Iske,

Sander, Alex, Jeanette, Winke, Anke Marit, Loek, the two Suzannes, the two Eelkes, Miriam, Mirjam, René, Vincent, Lisa, Sasha, Ruud, Annelies, Richard, Nietzsche, Tim, Jo, Jeff, Ashley, Bronagh, the two Dans, Merel, Joost, Roemer, Sybrine, Frank, Stephen, Matthias, Tobias, Lorijn, Linda, Marlieke, Lieneke, Ian, Isabella, Hanneke,

the two Peters, Elexa, Pim, Ricarda, Gwilym, Joost, Alina and Mariska! And special thanks of course to Sean, the FAD’s official MC and poetry slammer!

As many of you know, when I’m not drinking to forget them, I like to run away from my problems. Sometimes other people ran with me, exploring the course of an upcoming race (7 Hills, Molenhoeks Makkie) or just because they were on the same lfcdc mailing list. Thank you Eelco, Arjen, Lauren, Tim, Jeanette and Stephen!

Fewer people know that I produced a child early on in my Donders career. A girl with two fathers, she was named DoReti and she likes to draw colorful maps on inflated cortical surfaces. Sander, I know you have a real boy of your own now, but let’s face it, the first one is always more special ;-).

0.90, 2.272 and 2.217. These numbers have special significance because they marked the offices where I spent so much of my time in the last years. The DCCN random number generator, in its ineffable wisdom, allocated the perfect people for me to share these spaces with. Thank you Winke, Vincent, Iske, Anna, Ruud, Claudia, Anke, Joost and

Emily, for being such great office mates!

My experiments would not have been possible without the technical support of the DCCN’s Technical Group: Erik, Marek and his minions, Mike, Uriel, Jessica, Edward and Hong. Thanks in particular to Paul for running a tight ship down in his Pleasure

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Palace, and for answering his home phone when a scanner would act up during the weekend. Thanks also to everyone who keeps the DCCN running smoothly, including

Berend, Tildie, Nicole, Sandra, Ayse, Chantal, Paula, Susanne & Lucia.

Rauischholzhausen crew, I wish there were a way for us to go back to that German

castle for a week every year, to relive those heady days of vision science, uphill football, downhill football, nerdy discussions, impromptu renditions of Hey Jude and other classics, scavenging for decorative strawberries as the only available fruit to ward off scurvy, fountain-swimming, and the occasional drink (just the one). Barring that, I guess we’ll all just have to stay in science so we can catch up at conferences. In order of appearance on the T-shirt, here’s to you Antonio, Jing, Ben, Joao, Jarrod, Rob, Surya,

Will, Hannah, Becky, Joan, Dun, Susann, Jorrit, Rebecca, Vivian, Sonia, Anna, Cheng, Rosanne, Brendan, Nick, Ulf, Manuel, Kate, Linus, Chris, Bianca, Andi and Shay! Cork gang, I’m glad we’ve stayed in touch over the years! It was always great to escape

my PhD stress by reminiscing with you about the good times when we visited Dingle, listened to live Irish music in Sin É, ate tuna-pasta before Irish Culture evening classes, saved Ivanka from the flood, or drank Beamish (with or without blackcurrant syrup) at the Bróg. Marvin, Annemiek, Jacqueline & Ivanka: go raibh maith agat!

George, Thijs & Lorraine, not only are you 75% of my paranymphs; you also played a

huge part in me having a life outside of my PhD. Whether we were flipping cups, hero- ing guitars, finding out who killed a guy at the Bourbon Jazz club, or escaping from the Beurs van Berlage, hanging out with you was always a surefire way to have a blast, to laugh a lot, and to forget about p-values or reviewer comments!

To all my UCU comrades: I hope we’ll continue to bump into each other, wherever in the world we happen to be. Anne, it’s a loss for the Hard Problems of consciousness, which I always figured you were going to solve, but personally I’m glad we’ve ended up (once again, after so many joint UC classes) studying similar things. Max & Jasmijn, I expect great things from a biotech/data science power couple like yourselves, and I hope to be able to pay you a visit in the Bay Area one day.

Erik, Frank & Rien, hoewel de laatste tijd wat minder, kwamen we tijdens mijn PhD

geregeld bij elkaar voor pannenkoeks, speciaal- of juist euroshopper-bier, en een goeie pot Mariovoetbal. Dit laatste speelden we na zoveel oefening op spinaal niveau, dus dat zullen we vast nooit verleren. Dat er dus nog maar vele mogen volgen!

Geert & Valentine, bedankt eerst en vooral voor het warme welkom in jullie familie.

Dankzij jullie heb ik al veel nieuwe dingen leren kennen, waaronder Brussel, Geuze, oesters, en Flora natuurlijk ;-). Bedankt voor de Nieuwjaarsvakanties, de etentjes en de uitstapjes naar musea, toneelstukken en opera’s.

Familie van alle kanten (Harderwijk, Amsterdam & België), bedankt voor alle gezellige

familiedagen en -feestjes, of het nu met Hemelvaart, Pinksteren of Zomerkerst was. Oma

Atsje, wat leuk dat je ons elk jaar bij elkaar brengt voor een heerlijk weekendje in “de

huisjes”! Oma Rietje, ik kijk elk jaar weer uit naar de Sintekerstgedichten en creatieve cadeau’s!

Amanda & Julia, wat ben ik blij en trots om jullie als zusjes te hebben! Bedankt voor

alle (Wii-)spelletjes en ander vertier als ik in Zeewolde kwam ontsnappen aan de PhD- hectiek. Amanda, ik vind het super om te zien dat je je draai hebt gevonden en de sterren van de hemel fysiotherapeutert. Jij gaat nog heel ver komen! En met Birgit heb je daarin de ideale metgezel gevonden =). Julia, wie had gedacht dat die kleine wipneus in haar Noddy-pyjamaatje zou uitgroeien tot een heuse BN’er en Youtube-ster? Ja oké, we zagen het wel een klein beetje aankomen natuurlijk… (“zorg voor je baby’s!”)

Papa & mama, ik heb veel om jullie dankbaar voor te zijn, en ook dit proefschrift had er

zonder jullie niet gelegen. Van jongs af aan hebben jullie ons gestimuleerd om te leren en te studeren. Papa, jij was natuurlijk de schoolmeester, en ik kan me bijvoorbeeld nog goed herinneren dat jij me soms, als ik mijn bord niet wilde leegeten, beloofde uit te leggen hoe kaas werd gemaakt, of een ander interessant onderwerp. Ik moest dan steeds een hap nemen om meer te weten te komen. Mama, jij zette samen met mij mijn nieuwste legosets in elkaar, en speelde Mastermind en Scrabble met me toen ik amper uit de luiers was. En toen het tijd werd voor de echte school was alles mogelijk. Plusklas, UCU en Oxford, jullie hebben het allemaal aangemoedigd in woord en daad. Bedankt voor dit waardevolle geschenk!

Van alle mensen in dit dankwoord is er één die er elke dag bij was, en die alle mogelijke rollen heeft vervuld. Lieve Flora, ik zou me dit PhD-avontuur niet kunnen inbeelden zonder jou. Je hebt het van begin tot eind met me gedeeld, de teleurstellingen met me opgevangen en de overwinningen gevierd. Je was en bent proeflezer en mental coach, loopbaanbegeleider en therapeut (rijmt op snuit ;-) ), en nog zo veel meer dingen die elk een eigen alinea zouden verdienen. You are the Leslie Knope to my Ben Wyatt. I love you and I like you..

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