K.B.E. (Koen) Böcker, PhD

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Researcher

Coordinator of the research into individual differences in cognitive capacity and reserve and its valorisation. Presently the main project is to detect MRI based predictors of cognitive capacity and affective control. Further, responsible for neuroscience applications and in other research domains, notably obesity and female sexual dysfunction. Shared responsibility for (neuro)psychology and statistics.

RESUME

Professional Experience

2009-present Researcher Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Alan Turing Institute Almere

2003-2009 Assistant Professor, dept. Psychopharmacology, Utrecht University

1998-2003 Post-doc researcher, dept. Psychopharmacology, Utrecht University "Statistical EEG/MEG source analysis".

1996-1998 Post-doc researcher, dept. of Psychology, Tilburg University

"Prosody and speech recognition: a comparative and electrophysiological approach".

1994-1996 Post-doc researcher, dept. of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University "Cognitive Neuropsychology of Hallucinations".

1994-1995 Post-doc Researcher, Université Libre de Bruxelles, “An electrophysiological approach to prosody and speech recognition”

1989-1993 PhD Student, Cooperation Centre Tilburg and Eindhoven Universities, 'Source localization of slow cortical potentials”

1985-1987 Research Assistant, dept. of Physiological Psychology, Tilburg University

Scientific board membership

2009-present Secretary treasurer of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Education and Qualifications

1989-1994 PhD Psychology (cum laude), Tilburg University

1984-1989 Msc Psychology (cum laude), Tilburg University

Publications

Monographs

• KBE Böcker, Spatiotemporal dipole models of slow cortical potentials. Tilburg, Thesis. 1994

• GJM van Boxtel & KBE Böcker (Eds). Brain and Behavior: past present and future. Tilburg:

Tilburg University Press. 1997.

Co-promotor / PhD supervisor:

• A Aleman. Cognitive neuropsychiatry of hallucinations in schizophrenia: how the brain

misleads itself. Cum Laude. (Promotores: EHF De Haan & RS Kahn; Co-promotres:

KBE Böcker & R Hijman). Thesis: Utrecht University. ISBN 90-393-2667-3

• JMP Baas. Startles, drugs and brain waves. A human model for fear and anxiety.

(Promotor: MN Verbaten; Co-promotores: JL Kenemans & KBE Böcker). Thesis:

Utrecht University. ISBN 90-393-2906-0.

Suzanne Bijl. Functional changes in the brains of social drinkers. UU, 3 september 2004.

Promotores: Prof Dr M.N. Verbaten & Prof Dr J.L. Kenemans. ISBN: 90-393-3749-7.

M Lansbergen. Impulsivity: a deficiency of inhibitory control? Promotores: JL Kenemans &

H. van Engeland. Co-promotor: KBE Böcker. Thesis: Utrecht University,

ISBN 978-90-39346440.

AE Wester. Attention deficit and impulsivity. Promotores: JL Kenemans & H. van Engeland.

Co-promotores: KBE Böcker & ER Volkerts. Thesis: Utrecht University, ISBN 978-

90-393-5066-9

Papers, 1st author.

KBE Böcker, J Gerritsen, M Kruidenier, CC Hunault, TjT Mensinga, JL Kenemans. Acute

effects of cannabis with high Δ9-THC contents on visual selective attention; an

event-related potential study. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 2010 (in

press). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2010.04.008

KBE Böcker, CC Hunault, J Gerritsen, M Kruidenier, TjT Mensinga, JL Kenemans.

Cannabinoid Modulations of Resting State EEG Theta Power and Working Memory

Are Correlated in Humans, 2010, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,

(in press).

KBE Böcker, JMP Baas, JL Kenemans, & MN Verbaten. Differences in startle modulation

during instructed threat and selective attention. Biological Psychology, 2004, 67:

343-358.

KBE Böcker, JMP Baas, JL Kenemans, & MN Verbaten. Stimulus-Preceding Negativity

Induced by Fear: a manifestation of affective anticipation. Int. J. Psychophysiol.,

2001, 43(1): 77-90.

KBE Böcker, JMP Baas, JL Kenemans, MN Verbaten & HM Huizenga.

Electrophysiological manifestations of fear-induced selective attention.

Biomedizinische Technik, 2001, 46(2): 239-241.

KBE Böcker, R Hijman, RS Kahn & EHF De Haan. Perception, mental imagery and reality

discrimination in hallucinating and non-hallucinating schizophrenic patients. British

Journal of clinical Psychology, 2000, 39: 397-406.

KBE Böcker, MCM Bastiaansen, J Vroomen, CHM Brunia & B de Gelder. An ERP correlate

of metrical stress in spoken word recognition. Psychophysiology, 1999, 36: 706-

720.

KBE Böcker & GJM van Boxtel. Stimulus-preceding negativity: a class of anticipatory slow

potentials. In: GJM van Boxtel & KBE Böcker (Eds). Brain and Behavior: past

present and future. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press. 1997: 105-116.

KBE Böcker, JAG van Avermaete & MMC van den Berg-Lenssen. The international 10-20

system revisited: cartesian and spherical co-ordinates. Brain Topography, 1994, 6:

231-135.

KBE Böcker, CHM Brunia & PJM Cluitmans. A spatiotemporal dipole model of the

Readiness Potential. I. Finger movement. Electroencephalography and clinical

neurophysiology, 1994, 91: 275-285.

KBE Böcker, CHM Brunia & PJM Cluitmans. A spatiotemporal dipole model of the

Readiness Potential. II. Foot movement. Electroencephalography and clinical

neurophysiology, 1994, 91: 286-294.

KBE Böcker, CHM Brunia & MMC van den Berg-Lenssen. A spatiotemporal dipole model

of the Stimulus Preceding Negativity (SPN) prior to feedback stimuli. Brain

Topography, 1994, 7: 71-88.

KBE Böcker, R Forget & CHM Brunia. The modulation of Somatosensory Evoked

Potentials during the foreperiod of a forewarned Reaction Time task.

Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology, 1993, 88: 105-117.

KBE Böcker, M Timsit-Berthier, J Schoenen & CHM Brunia. Contingent Negative Variation

in Migraine. Headache, 1990, 30: 604-609.

Papers, coauthor, since 2005.

HNA Logemann, MM Lansbergen, TWDP van Os, KBE Böcker, JL Kenemans. The

effectiveness of EEG-feedback on attention, impulsivity and EEG; a sham feedback

controlled study. Neuroscience Letters, 2010 (in press).

CC Hunault, TjT Mensinga, KBE Böcker, CM Schipper, M Kruidenier, MEC Leenders, I de

Vries, J Meulenbelt. Cognitive and psychomotor effects in males after smoking a

combination of tobacco ans cannabis containing up to 69 mg Δ9-

tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Psychopharmacology, 2009, 204: 85-94.

JA Posthumus, KBE Böcker, MAJ Raaijmakers, H. van Engeland, W. Matthys. Heart rate

and skin conductance in 4-year old children with aggressive behavior, Biological

Psychology, 2009, 82: 164–168.

AE Wester et al., Effects of alcohol on attention orienting and dual-task performance

during simulated driving: an event-related potential study. J. of

Psychopharmacology (in press).

JG Veening, KBE Böcker, PM Verdouw, B Olivier & L Groenink. Activation of the Septohippocampal

system differentiates anxiety from fear in startle paradigms. (in press).

CHM Brunia, GJM van Boxtel, KBE Böcker. Negative slow waves as indices of anticipation

(Book chapter, in Luck (ed.); in press)

AE Wester, KBE Böcker, ER Volkerts, JC Verster & JL Kenemans. Event-related potentials

and secondary task performance during simulated driving. Accident Analysis and

Prevention, 2008, 40: 1-7.

EM van de Putte, K.B.E. Böcker, J. Buitelaar, JL Kenemans, R.H.H. Engelbert, W. Kuis,

J.L.L. Kimpen & C.S.P.M. Uiterwaal. Deficits of interference control in adolescents

with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,

2008, 162: 1196-1197.

S Bijl, EA de Bruin, KBE Böcker, JL Kenemans & MN Verbaten. Effects of chronic drinking

on verb generation; an Event Related Potential study. Human Psychopharmacology

– Clinical and Experimental, 2007, 22(3): 157-166.

MM Lansbergen, KBE Böcker, EM Bekker & JL Kenemans. Neural correlates of stopping

and self-reported impulsivity. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2007, 118(9): 2089-2103

LJ Waldorp, HM Huizenga, RPPP Grasman, KBE Böcker & PCM Molenaar. Hypothesis

testing in distributed source models for EEG and MEG data. Human Brain Mapping

, 2006, 27: 114-128.

T. Grent-'t-Jong, KBE Böcker, & J.L. Kenemans. Electrocortical correlates of control of

selective attention to spatial frequency. Brain Research, 2006, 1105: 46-60.

B Oranje, MA Geyer, KBE Böcker, JL Kenemans, MN Verbaten. Prepulse inhibition and

P50 suppression: commonalities and dissociations. Psychiatry Research, 2006,

143: 147-158.

S Bijl, EA de Bruin, KBE Böcker, JL Kenemans & MN Verbaten. Chronic effects of social

drinking in a card-sorting task: an event related potential study. Clinical

Neurophysiology, 2005, 116: 376-385.

S Bijl, EA de Bruin, JL Kenemans, MN Verbaten & KBE Böcker. Effects of chronic alcohol

consumption in a visual attention task and an auditory oddball task; An Event

Related Potential study. Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research, 2005, 29:

2029-2038.

EA de Bruin, HE Hulshoff Pol, S. Bijl, HG Schnack, S Fluitman, KBE Böcker, JL

Kenemans, RS Kahn & MN Verbaten. Associations between alcohol intake and

brain volumes in male and female moderate drinkers. Alcoholism-Clinical and

Experimental Research, 2005, 29: 656-663.

RPPP Grasman, HM Huizenga, LJ Waldorp, PCM Molenaar & KBE Böcker. Stochastic

maximum likelihood mean and cross-spectrum structure modelling in neuromagnetic

source estimation. Digital Signal Processing, 2005, 15: 56-72.

EM Bekker, KBE Böcker, F Van Hunsel, F, MC van den Berg, & JL Kenemans. Acute

effects of nicotine on attention and response inhibition. Pharmacology Biochemistry

and Behavior, 2005, 82: 539-548.