Added to that, I started my internship early, working on an ERP research project. ERP means Event-Related Potential; it's a technique for measuring the difference in brain activity before and after different stimuli. In our study, students were asked to carry out a computer activity, and were given positive or negative feedback with a colour and a smiley The study showed that students' upbringing had an effect on how they responded to the stimuli. I used data from this study for my master's thesis on psychological control.

After graduating I wanted to carry on and do a PhD, but unfortunately I just missed being accepted. My current work isn't really related to my study, although I do enjoy it. But I would like to do more research at some point in the future.
There's such a lot still to be discovered about how the brain works, and researchers are making new discoveries all the time. Neuroscientific research can help us understand certain 'invisible' illnesses, which makes it highly socially relevant. This is a distinctive master's where you really have the chance to get involved in this kind of research. You're not so much concerned with how behaviour manifests itself, but with the neural basis for the behaviour. If you find that interesting, I can thoroughly recommend this specialisation to you.”

Using behavioural and imaging techniques, I investigate the cognitive processes and the areas of the brain that are involved and connected when we are reading texts. We are using fMRI and EEG, but also a relatively new technique, magnetoencephalography (MEG).This measures the magnetic activity of the brain. One advantage of MEG is that it has very good temporal as well as good spatial resolution. Using this technique we can measure by the millisecond changes in the patterns of brain activity during reading.

Ideally, in the near future the results may inform diagnosis and intervention. Neurological investigation of learning-related activities is most developed in research into the specific disorder of dyslexia, but we will investigate what goes wrong in the brains of a much larger population, namely that of readers who struggle with comprehension.”