Poppy's Bio

I studied double majors in Psychology and Philosophy before travelling and working for a few years. I always planned to study further and after I moved to Amsterdam in Dec 08 the timing seemed perfect. I'm on the Cognitive Sciences Track in the Brain and Cognitive Science Research Masters. I'm really enjoying being back at University and we are studying some really interesting things to do with language acquisition and evolution, theory of mind, artificial intelligence and image representations in the brain/mind to name just a few. We are considering lots of recent theories of human cognition and having much interesting debate. I find the big philosophical picture fascinating and would now like to build on this and learn some practical research skills (e.g imaging techniques, cognitive psychometric testing, programming skills) so that I am employable in the future! I listen to heaps of podcasts (The 'brain science podcast' is especially good) and participate quite a lot in the forum over there. I'm personally really interested in hemispheric specialisation, visual and auditory perception, memory and neurocognitive aging. I really admire Dr Brenda Milner for the pioneering work on memory she did with HM.