Research
My research focusses on the implementation of serious gaming in cognitive rehabilitation. Specifically, I look at the efficacy of a game-supported cognitive training for people with acquired brain injury who experience slowed information processing. For this purpose, we are developing the Karman Line — a new line of digital strategy games — in collaboration with game companies (YellowRiders, Big4Data, GameArchitect), Radboud university, Klimmendaal rehabilitation specialists and, most importantly, people with acquired brain injury. Next to that, I’m looking at new methods to investigate compensatory strategy use in healthy subjects as well as the clinical population.
Supervisors
Dr. Dirk Bertens
Dr. Luciano Fasotti
Dr. Inti Brazil
Dr. Roy Kessels
Biography
I got interested in cognitive neuroscience during my bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht. This led me to do a period abroad at Sydney University, where I got the chance to delve more into the clinical part of neuroscience. After finishing the bachelor, I moved to Nijmegen and obtained my Master in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University. Before my PhD, I was a research assistant in the lab of Prof. Floris de Lange, Prof. Karin Roelofs and Prof. Jan Buitelaar, doing mostly MRI research and getting to know more about neurodevelopment disorders. Now, I’m pursuing a PhD in the Cognitive Rehabilitation group of Dr. Dirk Bertens and am happy to have Dr. Inti Brazil as my co-supervisor.
My research focusses on the implementation of serious gaming in cognitive rehabilitation. Specifically, I look at the efficacy of a game-supported cognitive training for people with acquired brain injury who experience slowed information processing. For this purpose, we are developing the Karman Line — a new line of digital strategy games — in collaboration with game companies (YellowRiders, Big4Data, GameArchitect), Radboud university, Klimmendaal rehabilitation specialists and, most importantly, people with acquired brain injury. Next to that, I’m looking at new methods to investigate compensatory strategy use in healthy subjects as well as the clinical population.
Supervisors
Dr. Dirk Bertens
Dr. Luciano Fasotti
Dr. Inti Brazil
Dr. Roy Kessels
Biography
I got interested in cognitive neuroscience during my bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht. This led me to do a period abroad at Sydney University, where I got the chance to delve more into the clinical part of neuroscience. After finishing the bachelor, I moved to Nijmegen and obtained my Master in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University. Before my PhD, I was a research assistant in the lab of Prof. Floris de Lange, Prof. Karin Roelofs and Prof. Jan Buitelaar, doing mostly MRI research and getting to know more about neurodevelopment disorders. Now, I’m pursuing a PhD in the Cognitive Rehabilitation group of Dr. Dirk Bertens and am happy to have Dr. Inti Brazil as my co-supervisor.
