PhD, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia [Oct 2016]
MSc (cum laude), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BSc, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Research interests
Currently I am studying the effects of motivation and motivation-inducing stimuli (e.g. reward and threat) on diverse motor and cognitive processes in health and disease.
My main interests are in the cognitive and neural mechanism underlying attention, learning, and memory – particularly in regards to motivationally-relevant stimuli like threat and reward.
In my PhD research I foremost looked at how emotional stimuli (especially threat) compel attention, and whether such prioritised processing is contingent on top-down goals and learning. Furthermore, I have focused on elucidating the neural networks underlying cognitive control, spatial navigation, and audiovisual integration using fMRI.
Methods-wise I have advanced experience with fMRI (including MVPA and PPI) and reaction time as well as more basic experience with EEG and eye-tracking.
Publications
Published papers:
Baumann, O, Vromen, JMG, Cheung, A., McFadyen, J, Ren, Y, Guo, C (2018). Neural correlates of temporal complexity and synchrony during audiovisual correspondence detection. accepted eNeuro
Becker, SI, Dutt, N, Vromen, JMG, & Horstmann, G (2017). The capture of attention and gaze in the search for emotional photographic faces. Visual Cognition
Vromen, JMG (2016). Top-down influences on the attentional orienting to and disengagement from threat. The University of Queensland
Vromen, JMG, Lipp, OV, & Remington, RW & Becker, SI (2016). Threat captures attention, but not automatically: Top-down goals modulate attentional orienting to threat distractors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Vromen, JMG, Lipp, OV, & Remington, RW (2015). The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set. Cognition & Emotion
papers under review or in preparation:
Vromen, JMG, Becker, SI, Baumann, O, Mattingley, JB, & Remington, RW. Flexible information coding in frontoparietal cortex across functional stages of cognitive processing. [revise & resubmit]
Baumann, O, Vromen, JMG, Boddy, A, Crawshaw, E, & Humphreys, MS. Category Length and Strength Effects Using Images of Scenes. [revise & resubmit]
Vromen, JMG, Becker, SI, Remington, RW, & Lipp, OV. Emotional pre-stimuli enhance executive control and differentially impact cross-network attention. [under review]
Vromen, JMG, Becker, SI, Lipp, OV, & Remington, RW. Selective fear and limited time-on-task drive attentional orienting to task-irrelevant threat distractors.
Nolan, CR, Vromen, JMG, Cheung, A, & Baumann O, et al. Evidence against the detectability of a hippocampal place code using functional magnetic resonance imaging [under review].