PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name | Leonard Elia van Dyck |
Current position | Labmanager of the Method Unit EEG, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg |
Address | Hellbrunnerstraße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria leonard.vandyck[at]plus.ac.at |
Web page | www.sleepscience.at |
Date of birth | 9th October 1997 |
Nationality | German |
EDUCATION
since October 2020 | Master of Science in Psychology (Specialization Cognitive Neuroscience), University of Salzburg (Thesis: “Unraveling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in Theory of Mind with Layer fMRI”, PIs: Prof. Dr. Mario Braun & Ass.-Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler) |
October 2017 – July 2020 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Salzburg (Thesis: “Seeing Eye-to-Eye? A Comparison of Object Recognition Performance in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks under Image Manipulation”, PI: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Gruber) |
June 2016 | High School Diploma (with Distinction), Chiemgau-Gymnasium Traunstein, Germany |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
since October 2020 | Labmanager of the Method Unit EEG, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg |
since March 2021 | Teaching Assistant, Bachelor’s seminar Artificial Intelligence, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg (Project: „Comparing Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Object Recognition“, PI: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Roland Gruber) |
since January 2021 | Researcher, Comparative Vision Group, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg |
March 2020 – July 2020 | Research Assistant, Laboratory for Sleep and Consciousness Research, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg (Project: „How SMART is it to go to bed with a PHONE?“, PI: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hödlmoser) |
INTERNSHIPS & SUMMER SCHOOLS
July 2020 | Neuromatch Academy – online summer school for computational neuroscience (observer track) |
April 2019 – July 2019 | Research Internship with Prof. Dr. Katherine Hertlein (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg |
GRANTS & AWARDS
June 2022 | ECVP22 Grant, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour |
June 2016 | Biology Future Prize, Stiftung Natur Mensch Kultur |
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2021 | van Dyck, L. E., Kwitt, R., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2021). Comparing Object Recognition in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks – An Eye Tracking Study, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.750639 |
2020 | Hertlein, K. M., & van Dyck, L. E. (2020). Predicting engagement in electronic surveillance in romantic relationships. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23(9), 604-610. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0424 |
PREPRINTS
2022 | van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Guiding Visual Attention in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Human Eye Movements. arXiv preprint (In Review at Frontiers in Neuroscience). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2206.10587 |
2020 | van Dyck, L. E. & Gruber, W. R. (2020). Seeing Eye-to-Eye? A Comparison of Object Recognition Performance in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks under Image Manipulation. arXiv preprint. (Bachelor’s thesis). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2007.06294 |
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (ACCEPTED)
2022 | van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Analyzing and Increasing the Similarity of Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Object Recognition. Poster presentation at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 28th – September 1st 2022. |
2022 | van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., Schöllkopf, C. P., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Spatial Similarities between Human Eye Movements and Deep Convolutional Neural Network Saliency Maps across Time. Poster presentation at the Salzburg Annual Mind and Brain Conference (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria, July 14th – 15th 2022. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
– Visual perception in the human brain and deep neural networks
– Neural processes of social cognition and theory of mind
– Oscillatory brain activity