Ingeborg's Bio

Hi everyone!
I am Ingeborg and I'm in the cognitive science track. I have a background in cognitive & biological psychology. The reason way I decided to apply for this research master is twofold. First, I find it quite hard to chose between the many topics I find interesting, and therefore I really appreciate the broad nature of cognitive science. Second, I do know for sure that I want to do research and that I would like to teach.

During my bachelor, I did two (small) research projects. The first was in Berlin. I ran the control group of an experiment with Electrodermal activity (EDA). The subjects were exposed to emotionally valenced and neutral pictures while their skin conductance was measured. In Berlin I also collaborated on a study on sleep-deprivement, in which the participants were kept awake for 2 subsequent nights.
My bachelorthesis was on memory, more specifically on the testing effect. The participants had to learn the same stimuli in different ways, and were tested on their memory performance immediately and after a delay.
As a student assistent I thought statistics and several first year psychology courses, which I enjoyed doing.

At the moment I am involved in a research project with fMRI, in which the neuronal differences between bipolar and unipolar depressed patients is being studied.

In the future, I would like to do more research on memory & learning and factors that (I believe) might affect them; context, degree of attention and consciousness, personal relevance, etc.
In this master I also would like to learn several tools (programming, imaging techniques) to approach the same research questions from different angles. And since I am interested in many topics, I am curious for the interdisciplinary topics to be discussed :)