Bio Mieke Schulte

Hey!

My name is Mieke, I am 23 and from Haarlem. My background is in Psychobiology. I completed the bachelor here at the UvA. Currently I am in the Cognitive Neuroscience track of the master, for which I’m glad because it really interests me how the brain influences behavior.
I didn’t write a research proposal, but I did an internship at Psychonomy instead. The experiment was about retrieval-induced forgetting, in which we tested the effect on priming on the remembering of practiced and nonpracticed word-pairs (this explanation probably doesn’t do the research any right, but I found the theory really complicated). Although this research wasn’t really in my field interest, and I spend a lot of hours in a room by myself, it made clear to me that research is something I want to do.
I don’t have one particular field that interests me, because there are so many interesting fields. However, I do know some things. I would like to do something involving the brain and its influence on behavior. I don’t like theoretical models, so I don’t think I’m going to end there.
So, I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up, but I always choose a next step that interests me, because I believe that “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result” (Mahatma Ghandi). I don’t exactly know where I want to end, but if I choose what interests me I will end somewhere that will interest me.

I didn’t have a lot inspiration when writing this bio, so if there’s anything you would like to know feel free to ask.

See you!