The BAND-Lab offers many student internships and research opportunities on a broad set of topics.
With us, past students have conducted Master and Bachelor thesis projects and Research Master elective studies.
If you are interested in joining us, please have a look at our current internships, or check the university webpage for active postings for projects in our lab.
Current Interns:
Maike Mußmann (BA Biomedical Sciences – Internship)
- PROJECT: “The effect of ethnicity on auditory emotion perception – A behavioural survey study”
- TOPICS/SKILLS: Emotional ratings of single vowel vocalizations, arousal and valence, statistical analysis
- SUPERVISORS: Xanthate Duggirala and Sonja Kotz
Molly Forde-Bates (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
- PROJECT: “Are you even listening? Perception of the interaction between emotion and sex from prosodic vocalizations”
- TOPICS/SKILLS:
- SUPERVISORS: Xanthate Duggirala and Sonja Kotz
Hanna Honcamp (RMSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
- PROJECT: “A Hidden Semi-Markov Model for the assessment of abnormal brain state dynamics in hallucination-prone individuals”
- TOPICS/SKILLS:Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), EEG resting state, dynamic network connectivity
- SUPERVISORS: Xanthate Duggirala and Sonja Kotz
Kobus Lampe (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
- PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension” (What is the neurobiological relationship between rhythm perception and speech comprehension?)
- TOPICS/SKILLS: Rhythm perception in the brain, TMS neuronavigator (MRI-based), EEG analysis using continuous data, multivariate temporal response function (mTRF), MNE-Python toolbox
- SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki and Sonja Kotz
Simone Klinkhammer (RMSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
- PROJECT: “Abnormal premotor activity and the differential influence of prediction certainty along the psychosis proneness continuum”
- TOPICS/SKILLS: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), premotor activity, readiness potential, sensory prediction
- SUPERVISORS: Xanthate Duggirala and Sonja Kotz
Jenni Vuorinen (RMSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
- PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
- TOPICS/SKILLS: TMS, combined EEG-TMS, EEG data analysis
- SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki , Lars Hausfeld and Sonja Kotz
CJ Mae Steeghs (BSc Maastricht Science Programme – Thesis project)
- PROJECT: “Atypical speech processing of phonotactic probabilities in adults with dyslexia “
- TOPICS/SKILLS: Dyslexia in adults, sensory prediction, EEG data collection and data analysis
- SUPERVISORS: Alexandra Emmendorfer and Sonja Kotz
Antonia Boznou (MSc Linguistics – Internship project)
- PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
- TOPICS/SKILLS: Speech perception, rhythm perception, behavioral experiments
- SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylakiand Sonja Kotz
Tommaso Barba (RMSc Neuropsychology – Research elective)
- PROJECT: “Brain electrophysiology: hands-on on concepts and methods”
- TOPICS/SKILLS: EEG methods and data analysis of ERP and TFR data
- SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo and Sonja Kotz
