Dr. Albert van der Veer

I have studied psychology at Utrecht University and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. After these studies, I have written my dissertation in cognitive neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University of Tübingen on self and body part localizations in virtual reality. I have joined the AG General Psychology with Focus Cognitive Psychology as a postdoctoral researcher in May 2022. Currently, my main research interest is in the psychophysiological —particularly interoceptive — and behavioural synchronizations between people, and their relations to cognitive and affective information processing in social situations. I aim to investigate this topic also from ontogenetic, i.e. developmental, as well as phylogenetic, i.e. across-species, perspectives.

• 4E cognition
• Psychophysiology, particularly interoception
• Body perception, experience and representations
• Biological theories of selfhood
• Affective psychology
• Human enhancement

Articles and books

[6] Van der Veer, A. H. (2019). Where are you? Self- and body part localization using virtual reality setups (doctoral dissertation). University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. https://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-35007

[5] Van der Veer, A. H. (2019). Where are you? Self- and body part localization using virtual reality setups. Berlin, Germany: Logos Verlag.

[4] Van der Veer, A. H., Alsmith, A. J. T., Longo, M. R., Wong, H. Y., Diers, D., Bues, M., Giron, A.P., & Mohler, B. J. (2019). The influence of the viewpoint in a self-avatar on body part and self-localization. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019 (SAP ’19). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343036.3343124

[3] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo, M. R., Alsmith, A. J. T., Wong, H. Y., & Mohler, B. J. (2019). Self and body part localization in virtual reality: Comparing a headset and a large-screen immersive display. Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Virtual Environments, 6:33. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00033

[2] Van der Veer, A. H., Alsmith, A. J. T., Longo, M. R., Wong, H. Y., & Mohler, B. J. (2018). Where am I in virtual reality? PLOS One, 13(10): e0204358. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204358

[1] Spetter, M. S., Malekshahi, R., Birbaumer, N., Lührs, M., Van der Veer, A. H., Scheffler, K., Spuckti, S., Preißl, H., Veit, R., & Hallschmid, M. (2017). Volitional regulation of brain responses to food stimuli in overweight and obese subjects: A real-time fMRI feedback study. Appetite, 112, 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.01.032

Posters and abstracts

[6] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo, M. R., Alsmith, A. J. T., Wong, H. Y., Bülthoff, H. H., & Mohler, B. J. (2018, September). Where am I, in terms of my physical and of my perceived body, when using different virtual reality setups. Poster session at the 11th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (SC 2018), Tübingen, Germany. https://osf.io/4r5h6/

[5] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo, M. R., Alsmith, A. J. T., Wong, H. Y., Bülthoff, H. H., & Mohler, B. J. (2018, May). Where am I? In terms of my physical and of my perceived body? Journal of Vision, 18(10):100. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.10.100

[4] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo, M. R., Alsmith, A. J. T., Wong, H. Y., Bülthoff, H. H., & Mohler, B. J. (2017, August). Where am I? Pointing to myself and body parts in virtual reality. Poster session at the 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2017), Berlin, Germany. https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/PEC/ECVP2017_abstracts_1.0.pdf

[3] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo, M. R., Alsmith, A. J. T., Wong, H. Y., & Mohler, B. J. (2017, March). Where am I in virtual reality? Poster session at the Symposium Me & I: Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives on the Self, Berlin, Germany.

[2] Van der Veer, A. H., Longo M. R., Alsmith A. J. T., Wong H. J., & Mohler B. J. (2017, March). Where am I in virtual reality? Poster session at the 5th Mind, Brain & Body Symposium (MBBS 2017), Berlin, Germany.

[1] Frantz, K., Van der Veer, A. H., & Van Hartesveldt, C. (1997). Locomotion elicited by MK801 in developing rats: temporal and environmental effects. Developmental psychobiology: an international journal, 30, 3.