Well... guess I'm kicking off what's going to be a long list of short bio's.
Having swirled around not knowing what to do for a year, I decided to start the Bèta-Gamma (Natural and Social Sciences) bachelor in 2005. In the 2nd year I switched from a specialization in Artificial Intelligence to Psychonomics. I figured they are actually fairly similar, since A.I. tries to construct the brain and Psychonomics tries to dissect it.
For my Bèta-Gamma research project me and two fellow students investigated the possibilities of The vOICe and the lack of knowledge about Synesthesia and underlying neural processes when using this system. Next to this, we tried to integrate face-recognition with The vOICe using Matlab.
Having swirled around not knowing what to do for a year, I decided to start the Bèta-Gamma (Natural and Social Sciences) bachelor in 2005. In the 2nd year I switched from a specialization in Artificial Intelligence to Psychonomics. I figured they are actually fairly similar, since A.I. tries to construct the brain and Psychonomics tries to dissect it.
For my Bèta-Gamma research project me and two fellow students investigated the possibilities of The vOICe and the lack of knowledge about Synesthesia and underlying neural processes when using this system. Next to this, we tried to integrate face-recognition with The vOICe using Matlab.
I did my Psychonomics bachelor thesis "A comparison of two long-term memory models: New insights from semantic dementia studies" under the supervision of Prof. Jaap Murre, who was also the supervisor of my Bèta-Gamma research project. Patients with semantic dementia are characterized by a specific loss of semantic memory in both verbal and non-verbal abilities, caused by temporal lobe atrophy. This fairly unique form of dementia allowed for the investigation of long-term memory in a new way and made it possible to further sharpen models of Long-term memory and consolidation.
Although my interests are still very broad and I don't like excluding anything beforehand, the research field of memory is one that has succeded to attract me for quite some time now. This is also one of the reasons why the Cognitive Neuroscience track suits me well and why this could very likely be part of either one of the two research projects in this master.
Currently I'm enjoying writing and editing for TIS and BLIND, playing electric guitar, organizing a monthly singer-songwriter evening called Fusion Unplugged and doing some motor-cycle lesson. Next to this, I just started as an MRI assistent at the AMC.
In the coming years I expect to get first-hand experience with doing (animal) research and will most likely also study abroad. Hopefully finding a field of research that keeps me interested.
I hand the microphone to the next person.
Although my interests are still very broad and I don't like excluding anything beforehand, the research field of memory is one that has succeded to attract me for quite some time now. This is also one of the reasons why the Cognitive Neuroscience track suits me well and why this could very likely be part of either one of the two research projects in this master.
Currently I'm enjoying writing and editing for TIS and BLIND, playing electric guitar, organizing a monthly singer-songwriter evening called Fusion Unplugged and doing some motor-cycle lesson. Next to this, I just started as an MRI assistent at the AMC.
In the coming years I expect to get first-hand experience with doing (animal) research and will most likely also study abroad. Hopefully finding a field of research that keeps me interested.
I hand the microphone to the next person.
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