Teaching activities
 

 

Lectures:

• "Crossmodal integration & Synesthesia", for the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Master track, Maastricht University, October 2008, 2009 & 2010

• "Mirror neurons: Neural basis and cognitive implications", for the course Cognitive Neuroscience, University College Maastricht, March 2009 & 2010, May 2011

 

Research Practical course:

• The influence of attention shifting on TMS-induced virtual neglect (2009) POSTER

• The effects of iTBS and cTBS on parietal updating of spatial hand position (2010)
   

Research internships & Master theses supervised:

• "The role of visual cortex in haptic perception: a fMRI and TMS study", Paolo Garlasco, 2012

• "TMS-effects on effective brain connectivity during spatial mental imagery", René Raemaekers, 2011

• "Emotional bias versus spatial attention bias: a TMS study", Anne Havermans, 2011

 

MARBLE (Maastricht Research Based Learning) projects:

• "Numerical cognition and TMS", Anne van der Horst, 2011-2012

• "The sound of size: A combined TMS-EEG study investigating synesthetic associations between pitch and size in the normal population", Sanne ten Oever, 2010

 

Bachelor theses supervised:

• "Numerical cognition and TMS", Anne van der Horst, 2012

• "Low frequency versus high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for auditory hallucinations", Ashley Ferdinandus, 2011

• "The sound of size: A combined TMS-EEG study investigating synesthetic associations between pitch and size in the normal population", Sanne ten Oever, 2010

• "Why has synaesthesia not vanished during the course of evolution?", Gesa Kappen, 2010

• "An integrative review of the evidence for mirror neuron systems in the human cortex and their functional role in social cognition", Stefan Lenzen, 2010

• "Searching for the remote: Efficacy and implications of clinical applications of rTMS on MDD, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD", Marianne Tokic, 2010

• "From gesture to language", Sabrina Strang, 2009

• "Do mirror neurons support movement imitation, or rather action imitation in children?", Sylvia van Rijsingen, 2009

• "Mirror neurons and autism", Lin Kleiweg, 2008

 

Course contributor:

• Auditory and higher order speech processing - Master & Research Master course (CN451/CN411), 2007-2009

• The cognitive neuroscience of sensory and motor systems - Master & Research Master course (CN455/CN414) 2007-2008

 

Teaching assistant (since 2003) in various Psychology and Statistics courses, like:

• Auditory and speech processing

• Fundamental neuroscience

• Programming skills

• Statistics

• Crossmodal integration

• Synesthesia

• Sensory and motor systems

 

Other:

• Member of the Athena Institute's "Neurosciences in dialogue" panel (Utrecht, March 2011)

• "The brain and brain research". Lecture for Evening of the Brain, Brain Awareness Week, Maastricht University, March 2011

• "Mirror neurons: from understanding actions to understanding others", Lecture for Studium Generale Maastricht, May 2010

• Beta 1-on-1 2010 & 2011 - teaching middle school students hands-on about Cognitive Neuroscience research

• “How can the methods of cognitive neuroscience be applied to multisensory integration and synaesthesia?”, seminar for the course “Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience”, National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, March 2010 & February 2011