 Associate professor (UHD) in the department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, Principal investigator of the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory. BIO: Master in Biological Psychology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (2000); PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam (2000-2005); Visiting research fellow Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, USA (2002); Postdoc, Waisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2005-2007); Assistant Scientist, Waisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2007-2009); Assistant Professor (UD) in the department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam (2009-2011); Associate Professor (UHD), Dept of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (2011-present). Funding: Marie Curie Reintegration grant (2009; €75.000); VIDI (2010; €800.000); Spinoza Junior Investigator Grant (2010; €11.250); Aspasia (2011; €100.000) Contact: Department of Psychology, UvA, Roeterstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Phone: +31-20-5256807; Email: h.a.slagter@uva.nl  PhD student (funded by VIDI) After having obtained my bachelors degree in cognitive psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, I continued my studies with the master program Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, which I completed in October 2011. In January 2012 I started as a PhD student in the Cognition and Plasticity Lab. In the project we will look at people's ability to learn and improve cognitive skills, and changes in the brain that accompany those processes of learning. Especially, we will examine changes in networks of brain regions that are involved in cognitive learning, by looking at functional and structural connectivity between regions. In my project I will focus on working memory performance and the ability to control attention. My aim is to examine how an individual's working memory performance can be improved by training, to what extent these improvements are beneficial to other, untrained, cognitive skills, and how improvement of working memory is realized in the brain.  PhD student (funded by VIDI)  Research assistant in the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory (funded by Marie Curie IRG). 2nd-year CSCA master student. I obtained my Bachelors degree in psychobiology from the University of Amsterdam in 2010. My main interests lie in the neural mechanisms behind inter-area communication and modulation in the brain. Especially oscillatory dynamics as a means of facilitating cellular communication and directing influence from higher to lower brain areas. How these mechanisms lead to- or are involved in modulating attention or multi-sensory integration are topics I find very interesting.  Research assistant in the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory (funded by Marie Curie IRG). 2nd-year CSCA master student. After finishing my studies in Biological Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, I decided that I liked brain research and continued with a Master in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. My list of interests includes attentional processes, especially the way large neural areas interact flexibly over time, meanwhile shaping our conscious experience. Currently, I am also involved in sleep research. At Heleen's lab, I have mainly been working on attention, perception and learning studies. Current (master) students Leon Reteig. Itzik Norman. Lab alumni  Former research assistant and master thesis student in the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory. Currently doing a PhD with Prof. Ole Jensen at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.  Former research assistant in the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory. Elexa also did her first thesis project in the lab. Elexa is currently a PhD student with Dr. Floris de Lange and Dr. Hakwan Lau. Former master students Tom Marshall, Elexa St. John-Saaltink, Sam Prinssen, Rudy van den Brink |