Atser Damsma
Atser Damsma is a musician and researcher with a background in artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. In 2020, he obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen with his thesis Adaptive Timing. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Music Cognition Group of the University of Amsterdam, he carried out research on how rhythm is processed by the brain when we listen to music. Besides his research, he is involved as a musician in several electronic music and art projects, with which he performed at international venues such as Glastonbury, Sziget and Amsterdam Dance Event.
Atser's research focues in the theme of Music & Technology. Read more about this research theme.
Previous Publications
Damsma, A., Schlichting, N., & van Rijn, H. (2021). ‘Temporal context actively shapes EEG signatures of time perception.’ Journal of Neuroscience, 41(20), 4514-4523. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0628-20.2021
Damsma, A., Schlichting, N., van Rijn, H., & Roseboom, W. (2021). ‘Estimating time: Comparing the accuracy of estimation methods for interval timing.’ Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.21422
Van der Mijn, R., Damsma, A., Taatgen, N., & van Rijn, H. (2021). ‘Individual optimization of risky decisions in duration and distance estimations.’ Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 1897-1906. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02225-6
Damsma, A., Taatgen, N., de Jong, R., & van Rijn, H. (2019). ‘No evidence for an attentional bias towards implicit temporal regularities.’ Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(3), 1136-1149. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01851-z
Hallez, Q., Damsma, A., Rhodes, D., van Rijn, H., & Droit-Volet, S. (2019). ‘The dynamic effect of context on interval timing in children and adults.’ Acta psychologica, 192, 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.10.004
Damsma, A., van der Mijn, R., & van Rijn, H. (2018). ‘Neural markers of memory consolidation do not predict temporal estimates of encoded items.’ Neuropsychologia, 117, 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.04.039
Schlichting, N., Damsma, A., Aksoy, E. E., Wächter, M., Asfour, T., & van Rijn, H. (2018). ‘Temporal context influences the perceived duration of everyday actions: Assessing the ecological validity of lab-based timing phenomena.’ Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.4
Damsma, A., & van Rijn, H. (2017). ‘Pupillary response indexes the metrical hierarchy of unattended rhythmic violations.’ Brain and Cognition, 111, 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2016.10.004
Willems, C., Damsma, A., Wierda, S. M., Taatgen, N., & Martens, S. (2015). ‘Training-induced changes in the dynamics of attention as reflected in pupil dilation.’ Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(6), 1161–1171. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00767