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Personal Information

Name: Bryant Jongkees, PhD
Address: Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, the Netherlands
Email: b.j.jongkees@fsw.leidenuniv.nl, jongkees@princeton.edu, bjjongkees@gmail.com

Academic History

2020-Present:
Tenured Assistant Professor at Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

2019-2020:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Jonathan Cohen’s lab at Princeton University, United States of America.

2019:
Lecturer & Researcher at Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, the Netherlands

2015-2018:
PhD Candidate at Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Promotor: Sander Nieuwenhuis
Title of dissertation: Neuromodulation of cognitive-behavioral control
Date of defense: February 21st 2019 (graduated with distinction, cum laude)

2013-2015:
Master student in Psychology (research): Cognitive Neuroscience programme at Leiden University, the Netherlands (graduated with distinction, summa cum laude)

2010-2013:
Bachelor student in Psychology programme at Leiden University, the Netherlands (graduated with distinction, cum laude)

Publications

A full list of my publications can be found here.

Grants & Awards

Project grant from Gratama Foundation & Leiden University Fund (2021, LUF) for “Deficient working memory underlying subclinical psychosis: a neurocognitive model” (€24.746)

Best published article award 2015-2016 from Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands (€500)

(Inter)National Activity

Invited talks:
“Dopaminergic modulation of cognitive control” at Brown University, United States of America (February 3rd, 2020)

“Neuromodulation of cognitive-behavioral control” at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, the Netherlands, (July 18th, 2018)

Conference talks:
Jongkees, B. J. (2019). Baseline-dependent effect of dopamine on working memory gating but not updating. The NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour of the Dutch Psychonomic Society.

Jongkees, B. J.,Kessler, Y., Dreisbach, G., & Colzato, L. S. (2018). Effects of persistent vs flexible control mode on working memory. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN).

Jongkees, B. J. (2018). Food for (better) thought? The potential and limitations of using food supplements for cognitive enhancement. Dutch Neuroscience Meeting 2018.

Jongkees, B. J., Steenbergen, L., & Colzato, L. S. (2017). Eyes are windows to the dopaminergic brain: color vision predicts processing modes of goal activation during action cascading. The 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

Jongkees, B. J., Sellaro, R., Beste, C., Nitsche, M. A., Kühn, S., & Colzato, L. S. (2015). Tyrosine supplementation modulates the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory. The NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour of the Dutch Psychonomic Society.

Jongkees, B. J., Sellaro, R., Beste, C., Nitsche, M. A., Kühn, S., & Colzato, L. S. (2015). Dopaminergic modulation of transcranial direct current stimulation’s effect on working memory. The 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

Colzato, L. S., Jongkees, B. J., Sellaro, R., & Hommel, B. (2013). Working memory reloaded: tyrosine repletes updating in the N-Back task. The NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour of the Dutch Psychonomic Society.

Conference posters:
Jongkees, B. J., Kessler, Y., & Colzato, L. S. (2019). Baseline-dependent effect of dopamine on working memory gating but not updating. The 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

Jongkees, B. J., Kessler, Y., Dreisbach, G., & Colzato, L. S. (2018).Color vision predicts individual differences in cognitive control and metacontrol states. Psychonomics International.

Jongkees, B. J., Immink, M. A., Finisguerra, A., & Colzato, L. S. (2017). Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) enhances response selection during sequential action. The 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

Jongkees, B. J., Steenbergen, L., Valessi, A., & Colzato, L. S. (2017). Color vision predicts individual differences in dopamine function and metacontrol state. The NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour of the Dutch Psychonomic Society.

Graduate (PhD) Supervision

2020-Present:
Roel van Dooren

Teaching (at Leiden University)

Coordination:
Applied Cognitive Psychology BA course (2020), Evidence-based Cognitive Enhancement MA course (2020-), Neurochemistry BA course (2021-), Neuromodulation of Cognition MA course (2019-)

Lectures and/or Workgroups:
Applied Cognitive Psychology BA course (2015-2019), Cognitive Neuroscience BA course (2015-2019), Consciousness BA course (2015-2018), Evidence-based Cognitive Enhancement MA course (2015-2018, 2020-), Neurochemistry BA course (2017, 2021-), Neuromodulation of Cognition MA course (2014-)

Individual supervision:
Theses & internships in BA and MA programme (2015-)

N.B. Obtained base level qualification teaching (‘Basiskwalificatie onderwijs’; BKO) in 2018

Reviewing Assignments

Reviewer
Biological Psychology; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology; Experimental Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of Cognitive Enhancement; Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Research; Scientific Reports; Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience