Research Scientist
Hearing Cluster
Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Machine Learning
Tel. +43 1 51581-2538
Email: david.meijer(at)oeaw.ac.at
Academic background
2012 BSc in Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands
2014 MSc in Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands
2019 PhD at School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
During my PhD (with Prof. Uta Noppeney in the Computational Cognitive Neuroimaging group) I studied multisensory perception and decision making. More specifically, I performed audiovisual psychophysics experiments (spatial ventriloquism and McGurk effect) to validate existing probabilistic models of multisensory integration and Bayesian confidence reports.
Current Research
As part of the Dynamates project, I currently investigate how human and non-human primates use spatial and temporal predictions to guide auditory perception in uncertain dynamic environments. To this end, I compare results from various computational models (Bayesian and heuristics) to behavioral responses and electrophysiological data acquired during auditory change-point experiments wherein reliability and relevance of the prior stimuli sequences are manipulated.
Projects
Publications
Publications
- Fleischmann R.; Bayram B.; Meijer D.; Barumerli R.; Spierings M.; Pomper U.; et al. (2024) Neural signatures of Bayesian perceptual adaptation during auditory motion discrimination. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024. Hannover.
- Meijer D.; Noppeney U. (2023) Metacognition in the audiovisual McGurk illusion: perceptual and causal confidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Bd. 378, S. 20220348.
- Barumerli R.; Majdak P.; Geronazzo M.; Meijer D.; Avanzini F.; Baumgartner R. (2023) A Bayesian model for human directional localization of broadband static sound sources. Acta Acustica, Bd. 7, S. 12.
- Dorok F.; Meijer D.; Bayram B.; Barumerli R.; Greif T.; Spierings M.; et al. (2023) Examining the role of the pupil-linked arousal system in perceptual decision-making using a dynamic sound localization task. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2023. Hamburg S. 1155-1158.
- Barumerli R.; Meijer D.; Baumgartner R. (2022) Joint modeling confirms pupil dilation as neurophysiological marker of Bayesian spatial inference in dynamic auditory environments. Proceedings: A11, Psychoacoustics, ICA 2022. Gyeongju S. 158-160.
- Barumerli R.; Majdak P.; Geronazzo M.; Avanzini F.; Meijer D.; Baumgartner R. (2022) Evaluation of spatial tasks in virtual acoustic environments by means of modeling individual localization performances. Proceedings: A21, Virtual Acoustics, ICA 2022. Gyeongju S. 64-66.