Beatrice de Gelder

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Professor Beatrice de Gelder holds degrees in both Philosophy and Psychology, and received her PhD in 1972 from the University of Louvain, Belgium. She began her academic career teaching Philosophy of Science, first in Leiden and then in Tilburg. In the mid nineties de Gelder changed her field of interest to Cognitive Science. She is currently professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology, Maastricht University. Her main interests lies in the 4 topics below:

1. Non-conscious recognition in patients with cortical damage.
2. Emotional expression in whole bodies.
3. Face recognition and its deficits.
4. Multisensory perception and the interaction between auditory and visual processes.