Internship possibilities

Internship possibilities track CN

There are plenty Utrecht internship possibilities available for cognitive neuroscience students. A strong theme in the Experimental Psychology department is perception, both at an elementary level and at a higher conscious level, in particular in the visual domain. Also there are many research projects focusing on somatosensory processing and the interaction between the visual, somatosensory and auditory senses. Other strong research themes include spatial cognition, attention and emotion, and memory. Excellent TMS, EEG and eye movement tracking facilities are available as well as fMRI facilities in collaboration with the Utrecht Medical Center. Internships can involve various patient groups, such as neurological patients (e.g. stroke and dementia) and other clinical groups (e.g. ADHD, blind individuals, anorexia nervosa).

The OTS offers various internships possibilities focusing on formal and computational modeling of language processing. Alternatively, studies can take look at language in the brain, for example by examining aphasic patients, dyslexia, and cerebellar patients.

Other Utrecht groups also offer possibilities for cognitive neuroscience students to receive an excellent internship training, including biology and physics of men departments (viz haptic and visual psychophysics) and neuroimaging groups in the Utrecht Medical Center (e.g psychiatry),  which for example look at cognition and hallucinations in schizophrenics, trace the neural basis of the eyemovement control system, or develop new tools for brain computer interfacing.

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Internship possibilities track ECN

There are a large number of internships available in the ECN track covering a variety of research topics which are the focus of the participating research groups of the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University and the Military Hospital at the Uithof campus.  Research internships are predominantly on clinically relevant topics. Each internship is based on a detailed project description which guaranties the student a well-defined project. This ensures that the student is responsible for his/her own project, and provides the optimal setting for each student to experience the full experimental cycle: reading literature, formulating research question, designing and carrying out the experiment, analyzing and interpreting data, drawing conclusions, writing a report or paper. The project description also includes a list of specialized techniques the student will learn and apply.

Internship topics range from neurogenetics to behavior, from animal models to human studies, from single neuron to network study, from neuron culture to intact brain, from physiology to pathology. The majority of students in the ECN track find their internship in the departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Neurology, and Psychiatry of the UMCU, but there are also internships offered for instance in the Military Hospital and the faculty of Animal Sciences and the faculty of Pharmacy of the Utrecht University. ECN students often take their second internship elsewhere in the Netherlands or abroad. These external internships are usually part of an existing collaboration of participating Utrecht research teams.