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Franc Donkers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 Franc Donkers, Ph.D.

 

Email: franc_donkers@med.unc.edu

Office Phone:  (919) 843-3140

EEG Lab Phone: (919) 966-9987

 

Education:

M.S., Physiological Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

PhD., Cognitive Neuroscience, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Summary Statement:

Dr. Donkers’ research interests focus on the neurobiological underpinnings of human information processing in both healthy and clinical populations. He combines non-invasive brain imaging techniques (i.e. (f)MRI, EEG, fNIR) with behavioral assessments to examine attentional, executive and affective functions as they develop from early infancy to adolescence into adulthood. He is particularly devoted to a better understanding of the nature of disorders such as autism and schizophrenia in which attentional, executive and affective processes develop atypically. Dr. Donkers also directs the electrophysiology component of the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center’s Neuroimaging Core.

 

Representative Publications:

1. Donkers, F.C.L., & van Boxtel, G.J.M. (2004). The N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict monitoring not response inhibition. Brain and Cognition, 56(2), 165-176.

2. Donkers, F.C.L., & van Boxtel, G.J.M. (2005). Mediofrontal negativities to averted gains and losses in the slot-machine task: a further investigation. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19(4), 256-262.

3. Donkers, F.C.L., Nieuwenhuis, S., & van Boxtel, G.J.M. (2005). Mediofrontal negativities in the absence of responding. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 777-787.