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I am a senior researcher at Royal Dutch Kentalis, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands. The aim of the project I am working for (called 'Kentalis Kids Lab: language in the toddler brain') is to study language processing in children with Specific Language Impairments. We aim to study the phonological, sematical, and syntactic abilities of the children by using behavioral measures as well as ERPs. The other researchers of the project are Dr. Judith Pijnacker, Dr. Marjolijn van Weerdenburg, Prof.dr. Harry Knoors, and Prof.dr. Ludo Verhoeven. In this project, we collaborate with Auditory Diagnostic Centers and the Behavioural Sciene Institute (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands).
Before that, I worked as a research coordinator in the D'Esposito lab at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California Berkeley, USA. The project focused on how goal-directed behavior could be improved in healthy aging people, 60-80 years old. The lead researchers of this project were Dr. Gary Turner and Prof.dr. Mark D'Esposito.
In 2009, I completed my PhD at the Behavioural Sciene Institute and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. My PhD research focused on auditory perception in children from clinical populations (Cerebral Palsy; Specific Language Impairment), which was investigated by means of measuring brain activity (EEG/ERPs). The ERP-paradigms I used for testing auditory rhyme and auditory/phonemic discrimination were pre-tested and studied carefully in healthy adults. The ERP-recordings of the children were performed in a mobile EEG-lab, which was built in a mini-van.
If you want to know more, you can have a look at my publications and CV, or send me an e-mail.
Before that, I worked as a research coordinator in the D'Esposito lab at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California Berkeley, USA. The project focused on how goal-directed behavior could be improved in healthy aging people, 60-80 years old. The lead researchers of this project were Dr. Gary Turner and Prof.dr. Mark D'Esposito.
In 2009, I completed my PhD at the Behavioural Sciene Institute and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. My PhD research focused on auditory perception in children from clinical populations (Cerebral Palsy; Specific Language Impairment), which was investigated by means of measuring brain activity (EEG/ERPs). The ERP-paradigms I used for testing auditory rhyme and auditory/phonemic discrimination were pre-tested and studied carefully in healthy adults. The ERP-recordings of the children were performed in a mobile EEG-lab, which was built in a mini-van.
If you want to know more, you can have a look at my publications and CV, or send me an e-mail.