Gaurang Khot and his colleagues impressed the jury with a project on mapping our brains using fMRI data.
In August, Gaurang Khot attended the ‘Maps in the Brain’ Summer School hosted by the Donders Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen. As well as gaining inspiring ideas and making many new research contacts, he also brought home an award. During the summer school, Gaurang and his team-mates, Joelle Vos and Tido Bergmans, worked on a project to map brain functions using fMRI data. In their final presentation, the team convinced a jury of external experts to award them a €300 prize for their work.
Back in Cleves, Gaurang will use the knowledge and skills he gained at the summer school to further his own research. In his PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Neil Shirtcliffe at HSRW and Prof. Tansu Celikel at Radboud University, he is investigating how dopamine regulation affects the sensory cortex in our brains and whether perceptual training can help patients with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
