Half of my time at Maastricht University, I spend on teaching our bachelor and master students. I am coordinator of the bachelor course 'Learning and Memory' and of the research master courses on 'Biopsychology' and 'Electrophysiology'. Next to that, I regularly have students who participate in my research or write papers on my topics of interest. If you are student and interested in participating in my research, please send me an email.

Since the academic year 2010-2011, we have a new course in our bachelor curriculum called 'Learning and Memory', of which I am the coordinator. It is a course for our students in their first year and I coordinate it together with Margje van de Wiel and Remco Havermans. Last year, around 375 students took this course.

Topics of Learning and Memory are 'classical and operant conditioning', 'memory models', 'anatomy of memory', 'memory disorders', but also 'problem based learning' and 'talent vs. practice'. The topic on problem based learning was added, because this is the main teaching format at our university and students should know the background of their system.

 

This is a course in our research master on Neuropsychology and students take this course in their first year of the master. Generally, there are around 20-25 students per year.

In this course, students learn how fundamental biological mechanisms are linked to behaviour, cognition, and clinical disorders. It provides an in-depth description of biological concepts of brain function, such as neurochemical processes related to neurotransmission. After providing the basic ideas, we look into the biological mechanisms related to topics such as motivation, stress-related memory, and gender differences.

 

This is a course in our research master on Fundamental Neuroscience and students take this course in their second year of the master. Generally, there are around 10 students per year.

The goal of this course is to learn how electrical signals develop in the brain and which methods we use to examine these signals. We also discuss similarities and differences in measurements and results in the different species. For instance, to what extent are event-related potentials comparable between humans and rats?