Past Interns

Annika Friedrich (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; Matlab-based Letswave toolbox
  • SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo and Sonja Kotz
Denise Hohn (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; Matlab-based Letswave toolbox
  • SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo and Sonja Kotz
Chloe Carrick (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; Matlab-based Letswave toolbox
  • SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo and Sonja Kotz
Maren Cremer (BSc Psychology – MaRBle Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “Influence of hallucinatory proneness on emotion perception in single vowel vocalizations”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: statistical analysis
  • SUPERVISORS: Xanthate Duggirala
Elena Contreras Velez (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “Auditory Verbal Hallucinatory proneness and Source Detection”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Psychometric analysis, pitch-perception, hallucination
  • SUPERVISORS: Joseph Johnson
Dana Hermsen (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “Formal and temporal predictions in dyslexia”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: EEG data collection & analysis, prediction, dyslexia, timing
  • SUPERVISORS: Alexandra Emmendorfer
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; Matlab-based Letswave toolbox
  • SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo 
Angelina Palaiokastriti (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: TMS, Concurrent EEG-TMS, EEG data analysis
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki
Anna Otta (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Stimuli creation, participants recruitment, audio file modification, learning to use Audacity. Evaluating questionnaire results
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki
Mareike Dickopf (Bachelor of Psychology – Volunteer Assistant)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – The NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Participants recruitment, audio file modification, learning to use Audacity. Evaluating questionnaire results
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki
Melanie Faltz (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “The influence of hallucination proneness on attention”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: EEG data collection, ERP analysis
  • SUPERVISORS: Lisa Goller
Simon Brausten (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “Exploring the BAASTA battery in patients with traumatic brain injuries”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Sensori-motor synchronization, traumatic brain injuries, timing
  • SUPERVISORS: Laura Verga and Sonja Kotz
Lotte Baerts (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “Exploring the BAASTA battery in patients with traumatic brain injuries”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Sensori-motor synchronization, traumatic brain injuries, timing
  • SUPERVISORS: Laura Verga and Sven Stapert
Giusy Cirillo (6-Month Research Internship)
  • PROJECT: “Speech reproduction through iterative learning”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Language, speech processing
  • SUPERVISORS: Sonja Kotz and Ben Schultz
Spyros Kardoulias (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “Attention performance and connectivity in hallucinatory proneness”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: DTI, attention, auditory perception
  • SUPERVISORS: Sonja Kotz and Joseph Johnson
Patricia Prudhomme (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “Vocal source discrimination and connectivity in hallucinatory proneness”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: DTI, psychophysics, auditory perception
  • SUPERVISORS: Sonja Kotz and Joseph Johnson
Julia Olszewski (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “The influence of hallucinatory proneness on selective attention and vigilance”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Auditory perception, auditory verbal hallucinations, attention
  • SUPERVISORS: Sonja Kotz and Lisa Goller
Auder Sigurdardóttir (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “The influence of hallucinatory proneness on alertness and go/no go task”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Auditory perception, auditory verbal hallucinations, attention
  • SUPERVISORS: Sonja Kotz and Lisa Goller
Simon Wirths (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “The role of theta oscillations in selective attention, inhibition and executive functioning”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Attention, cognitive control, neural oscillations.
  • SUPERVISORS: Rachel Brown
Eimear Foley (Research MSc elective project)
  • PROJECT: “Self vs. other voice perception”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: fMRI, auditory perception, agency
  • SUPERVISORS: Joseph Johnson
Letitia Schneider (Research MSc – Elective project)
  • PROJECT: “Structural data analysis of persons with predispositions to auditory hallucinations”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: structural brain analysis (cortical thickness, VBM, DTI)
  • SUPERVISORS: Laura Verga
Jennifer Birchen (MSc student)
  • PROJECT: “How music moves us”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Synchronization effects of auditory and visual stimuli on the motor system on healthy people. Music perception.  Implications for clinical movement cueing rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson´s disease patients.
  • SUPERVISORS: Benjamin Schultz and Sonja Kotz
Oliver Bradley (BSc student)
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Electrophysiology of auditory temporal processing
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze
Marina Tamargo Cuadros (MSc student)
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Salience of sound, interplay of acoustic factors (pitch, rhythm, intensity) to rise the salience perception
  • SUPERVISORS: Benjamin Schultz and Sonja Kotz
Nofar Ben Itzhak (MSc student)
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Motor rehabilitation in Parkinson’s Disease; neuropsychological disorders in children. Neuroimaging.
  • SUPERVISORS: Benjamin Schultz and Sonja Kotz
Miquel Jansen (MSc student)
Violtsa Malo (MSc student)
Diego Marquez (MSc student)
Reine Ramaekers (BSc student)
Almuth Rosenow (MSc student)
Winson Yang (MSc student)
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
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