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            Born: Singapore, October 1 1939

Work: Psychology Dept., University of Amsterdam,

Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, Amsterdam , The Netherlands, phone 020 5256840, fax 020 6391656,

E-mail : a.kok@uva.nl

 

College

            Gymnasium, Rotterdam                                                       1952-1958

University

            University of Leiden

            Specialisation: Developmental Psychology                          1958-1965

Military Service

Army Officers Selection Centre                                            1965-1967

(second lieutenant)

Professional career

Staffmember TNO laboratory Ergnonomic Psychology       1967-1968

NATO course Short Term Memory APRU Cambridge        1967

University of Utrecht, Staff-member

Clinical/Industrial Psychology Dept.                                     1968-1971

Free University of Amsterdam, Staff-member

Psychonomics Dept                                                             1971-1986

Dissertation (Ph D)                                                               1976

Assistent Professor Psychophysiology                                1980-1986

University of Amsterdam, Psychonomics Dept.

Full Professor Physiological Psychology                             1987-2004

Sabbatical year Netherlands Institute for Arts and

Sciences 1997 (NIAS/KNAW). Wassenaar

(upon invitation by Royal Dutch Academy

of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)                                              1997

National University of Singapore                                           2002

Invitation Distinguished Visitors Programme

 

Current position

Professor Physiological Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Emeritus Professor per 1 October 2004.

 

Teaching

(1967-2000)

            Statistics in Psychology                                                        1967-1971

            Introduction to Psychology                                                    1971-1979

            Basic human Psychophysiology                                          1979-1986

            Selective attention and neural correlates                              1986-2001

            Cognitive aging                                                                     1990-1998

            Neuropsychology of Aging                                                    1997-2000

            Cognitive Neuroscience Basic course                                  1997-2004

           

Graduate Students

            Huib Looren de Jong, H. (Free University, 1988)

            Robert Licht (Free University, 1988)

            Roel Cremer (Un. Amst., 1989)

            De Waterman (Un.Amst., 1990)

            Winni Hofman (Un. Amst.,, 1994)

            Fren Smulders (Un. Amst., 1994)

Monicque Lorist (Un. Amst., 1995)

Oscar Winter (Un. Amst., 1995)

Eric Bes (Un. Amst., 1996)

Cees Lijzenga (Un. Amst., 1996)

Odin van der Stelt (Un. Amst. 1997)

Dirk Heslenfeld (Un. Amst. 1998)

Judith de Ruiter (Un. Amst. 1999)

Durk Talsma ( Un. Amst. 2001)

Sander Nieuwenhuis ( Un. Amst. 2002; EPOS award for best publication, 2002).

Michiel de Ruiter (EPOS award for best publication, 2003)

Helene Slagter, Zoe Tieges. Jennifer Ramautar (Un. Amst: in progress)

 

Postgraduate fellows

            Leon Kenemans (1988-1991)

Fren Smulders (1991-1993)

Odin van der Stelt (1997-2001)

Guido Band (1997-2000)

Richard Ridderinkhof (1996-2000)

 

Funding (extramural support)

NWO (Dutch Scientific Organisation) Research grant, Hemispheric laterality. 1978-1982. 200.000 Dfl.

            NWO Research grant Noise and Aging, 1987-1990, 300.000 Dfl

            NWO Research grant Attention and Aging, 1987-1992

Neuroscience Graduate school: Research grant, Fitness and aging. 1992-1996. 200.000 Dfl

NWO Research grant Attention, Source localisation Selective attention, 1992-1996

            NWO Research post-doc grant Cognitive Slowing 1997-2001. 200.000 Dfl

            NWO Research equipment grant (100.000 Dfl) 1992.

            NWO Research equipment grant 2000 (1.2 million Dfl).

European Coffee Organisation (initiative and coordination: Dr. J. Snel) 3 Research grants (Caffeine/information processing) 1993-2000. 600.000 Dfl

Amsterdam Institute Alcohol Research (AIAR) Research grant, Children of alcoholic parents. 1993-1997. 400.00 Dfl

NWO Research grant Attentional Control and Execution. 1998-2004, 200.000 Dfl

NWO van der Leeuw Chair 2001-2005 (proposal written by A. Kok, submission by Psychol. Dept.). 500.000 Dfl

 

Administration/committees

            Faculty council Psychology Dept. Free University 1978-1980.

Secretary Research committee Psychology Dept. Free University 1976-1984

            Chairman Dutch Psychophysiology Society 1988-1998

            Chairman Dutch Psychonomic Society 1992-1998

            NWO interdisciplinary committee Psychogerontology 1994-1998.

            NWO interdisciplinary committee Memory and Dementia 1989-1994.

            Evaluation committee NESTOR (Dutch Aging Research)

Evaluation Committee Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 1997-2001

Chairman Curatorium Special Chair Stress and Biol. Rhythms (1995-)

Tursky award committee SPR 1996

Chairman Psychonomics Dept Univ. of Amsterdam 1998-2000

Nominated member Board of Directors Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) 1998

Nominated and selected as member of Board of Directors SPR 2000-2004.

Scientific committee Conference World Federation of Psychophysiology Societies. Australia, 2000

Tursky award committee SPR 2003

 

Organisation (selection)

Co-founder of the Dutch Psychophysiology Society

Co-founder of the Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies.

International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON1; chair, together with A. Gaillard). Zeist. 1981

EPIC IX (International Conference on Event-Related potentials of the Brain). (Chair, together with M. Verbaten, C. Brunia, G. Mulder and A. Gaillard). Noordwijk 1996

Winterconference Dutch Psychonomic Society, 1996

Selective attention: new trends. Symposium. Amsterdam 1997.

EPOS (Experimental Psychology Graduate School) Workshop Mental Resources. 1995

EPOS Workshop Inhibition. 1998.

FEPS 2000 (Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies). Chairman, International Conference, 2000, Amsterdam.

Programme coordinator Research Program Arousal and Information Processing (Psych Dept., UvA). 1984-1989. (Ratings 4 4.5, 4,5 and 5, by NSU committee 1989-2001)

 

Journal Review

Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, Journal of Psychophysiology, Acta Psychologica, Vision Research, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology, British Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Brain Research, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology a.o.

 

Selected Lectures

Key-note adresses

External and internal control: a model for P3 amplitude. Invited address celebration 100th Anniversary Burden Institute, Bristol. 1992.

Determination of the locus of age-related slowing of behaviour: fractionation of response time utilizing ERP components. 25th International Congressnof Psychology. Brussels, 19-24 July 1992.

Electrophysiology of Aging. International Conference of the EEG Society. London, 1991.

Aging and Inhibition. Symposium Retirement Cees Brunia Tilburg University June 1997

P3, a useful measure of processing capacity? Annual meeting British Psychophysiolgy Society. London. December 1998.

The new cognitive neuroscience: solving the mind-body puzzle. NIAS. Dutch Royal Society April 1997.

Selective processes in development and aging: event-related potential studies. EPIC XI Conference, Okinawa, Japan, June 25-29 1998.

The New Cognitive Neurosciences. Lecture for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, NUS Singapore. March 2002.

Changes in the inhibitory systems in the aging brain. Tokyo Womens college of Medicine. 1998.

Energetical determinants of P3 amplitude; effects of arousal and attention. Annual conference Japanese Psychophysiology Society, Tokyo 1998.

Changes in Attentional-Control functions with advancing Age. Symposium: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences- New Perspectives. Hans Hanse Institut fur Wisenschaf. Delmenhorst, November 2002 (to appear in book).

ERP reflections of stopping. Error Symposium. Dortmund, July 2003 (to appear in book).

Symposia (selection)

Age-related changes in visual selective attention: evidence derived from event-related potential (ERP) paradigms, SPR annual meeting, Atlanta. October 5-9-1994.

Age-related changes in selective attention and inhibitory functioning: evidence derived from active and passive ERP paradigms. EPIC X conference. Eger, Hungary. 1996

Effects of sleep deprivation and caffeine on the P3 component of the ERP. SPR annual meeting. San Diego 14-18 October, 1996.

Selective processes in development and aging: event-related potential studies. EPIC XI Conference, Okinawa, Japan, June 25-29 1998.

Separating Control and Selection. December 2001. EPOS/KNAW Symposium organised by J. Sergeant with M. Posner, A. Sanders and J. Theeuwes.

Changes in Attentional-Control functions with advancing Age. Symposium: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences- New Perspectives. Hans Hanse Institut fur Wissenschaf. Delmenhorst, November 2002 (to appear in book).

ERP reflections of stopping. Error Symposium. Dortmund, July 2003 (to appear in book).

Control in Attention and Action,  EPOS/NWO, Amsterdam, March 2005.

 

Journal Editorship: offers for Editorship and Co-editorship of Journal of Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology.

 

Memberships

Dutch Psychophysiology Society, Dutch Psychonomics Society, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Cognitive Neuroscience Society