Hello Everybody,
My name is Silva van Schagen. I am 27 years old and live in Haarlem (which is about a quarter by train from Amsterdam). At the moment I am a first year student in the interdisciplinary master brain and Cognitive Sciences; track Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
From 2006 until 2009 I participated in the bachelor Psychobiology at the UvA. In short this bachelor tries to combine behaviour and biology and looks for a way of integration of these themes.
My bachelor thesis consisted of writing a research proposal. Prof. dr. J.G.W. Raaijmakers, who is associated with the faculty of social and behavioural sciences at the UvA, was my mentor for writing the proposal. The main question of my research proposal was; if subliminal priming can lead to long term effects. In which I especially focused on long term priming of words. There still exists much controversy about this subject and most experiments performed in this area failed to find significant results concerning long term effects of subliminal priming, although short term effects have well been established. To understand more about this so called unconscious processing it will be useful to know more about subliminal priming.
In contradiction of what the topic of my research proposal suggests, my main interests now are more focused on the neuroscientific field. By this I mean more focus on brain functions and the relationship between specific brain areas and certain behaviours. After finishing my master I would like to participate in fundamental research on neurocognitive disorders like PTSD, depression, addiction, schizophrenia and other mental disorders. Also I would like to be involved in broader interdisciplinary studies that maybe can give more insight in the "bigger picture" when it comes to neurocognition.
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