User:Hayimi/Jan Lauwereyns

Jan Lauwereyns (born May 13, 1969) is a poet, essayist, and scientist. As a cognitive neuroscientist, he specializes in the voluntary control of attention and decision making. He has published articles in journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and the monograph The Anatomy of Bias with The MIT Press. As a multi-lingual poet, he gained an international reputation for innovative work. In 2003, he was awarded the Hugues C. Pernath prize for poetry.

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Lauwereyns was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1998 with a thesis on the intentionality of visual selective attention. He has since conducted research and lectured on the neural mechanisms of perception and decision making at several institutes, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), Juntendo University (Tokyo, Japan), and Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand). He is currently Professor in the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) and Adjunct Research Associate at Victoria University of Wellington. As of February 2010, he is Section Editor for Psychology at PLoS One. In 2010, The MIT Press published his monograph The Anatomy of Bias, an integrative account of the structure and function of bias and sensitivity. Lauwereyns connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous concepts in psychonanalysis, literary theory, philosophy of mind, and experimental economics.

Multi-Lingual Poet

Lauwereyns has published single-author volumes of poetry in his native language, Dutch, and in Japanese and English. He has received several prizes and nominations for his work in Dutch, as well as grants from the Flemish Literature Fund and Creative New Zealand. According to the Flemish Literature Fund, his "analytical approach of poetic subjects produces a remarkable effect: funny, incisive and unsettling all at once. It is a poetry of crackling brain cells". Lauwereyns is Associate Editor of the Belgian literary journal DW B, and often works in collaboration with other writers and artists, including Leo Vroman, Patricia de Martelaere, Rachel Levitsky, and Michael Palmer.

Bibliography

In English:

• The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010.
• Three Poems. Reading: JOUGA, 2010.

Translated into English:

• Song of the Lake. (Radiobook) Translated by Michael O'Loughlin. Brussels, Belgium: DeBuren, 2009.

In Dutch:

• Nagelaten sonnetten. [Posthumous sonnets] Antwerp, Belgium: Manteau, 1999.
• Het zwijgen van de dichter. [The silence of the poet] Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2001.
• Blanke verzen. [Blank verse] Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2001.
• De boeke-kas. Waartoe zo veel?. [The book-case. Why so many?] Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2002.
• Buigzaamheden. [Flexibilities] Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2002.
• Monkey business. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2003.
• Het bloembed van de werkelijkheid. [The flowerbed of reality] Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2004.
• Tegenvoetig, tweebenig. [Antipodean, bipedal] Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2004.
• Splash. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Vantilt, 2005.
• Anophelia! De mug leeft. [Anophelia! The mosquito lives] Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Meulenhoff|Manteau, 2007.
• Ik, systeem, de werkelijkheid. (with Leo Vroman and an image by Jus Juchtmans) [I, system, reality] Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2004.
• Vloeistof en welvaart. [Liquid and welfare] Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2008.
• Lied van het meer. (Radiobook) [Song of the Lake] Brussels, Belgium: DeBuren, 2008.
• Zwelgen wij denkend rond. (with Leo Vroman) [Let's wallow in thought] Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2009.

In Japanese:

• Atama ga nai hebi. [Headless little viper] Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2009.

External links

• Poetry International Web [1]
• The MIT Press [2]
• DeBuren, Radiobooks [3]
• Word for Word [4]
• The Other Voices International Project [5]
• JOUGA [6]
• De Bezige Bij [7]
• Druksel [8]
• DWB [9]
• The Flemish Literature Fund [[10]]