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	Philips Research Media Interaction Group High Tech Campus 34 (WB51) 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31-(0)40-27 49661 Fax: +31-(0)40-27 49321 Office: WB 5.014
Internet paul@paul-lemmens.nl http://www.paul-lemmens.nl/ Resume/cv upon request

As of February of 2007, I have started on a research position within the Media Interaction Group of the Digital Society program at Philips Research. I am a member of the Cognitive and Behavioral Insights cluster that is headed by Dr. Boris de Ruyter. The CBI cluster is part of the Media Interaction group of Reinder Haakma.

In 2006 I worked with Dr. R. van Egmond (TU Delft) and Prof. Herbert Schriefers (NICI, RU Nijmegen) in a collaboration to investigate whether the CUReT database could be used as a database for visual stimuli in experiments. The CUReT database is a set of images of man-made and natural textured surfaces, all photographed under identical circumstances. We are currently looking into an outlet of the research results of this project.

During my Ph.D.-project I investigated whether moody information contained in sounds could influence cold, rational decisions that participants had to make in a picture-categorization task. Using the well-known affective (positive and negative, resp.) connotation of the major and minor mode in Western tonal music, I established that behavior in choice response-time tasks varied with the relation between the affective valence of a chord in major or minor mode and the affective property of Yes- and No-responses.

Scientific interests: combining basic and applied research, emotion, stimulus-response compatibility, cognitive control, affective-information processing, multimodal (audiovisual) information processing.

Below you can find links to PDF-files of (parts of) my Ph.D.-thesis. Per your request I can still send a hardcopy of the thesis.