Marieke recently went to India to teach the monks of Drepung monastery about neuroscience, She taught about attention, how practices affect the brain, and about mind-wandering, which is all part of the year 5 curriculum of ETSI. Marieke shared more details about her experiences in some blogs. As part of the teaching, she also performed… Continue reading Marieke teaches Tibetan monks about neuroscience at ETSI and gives talks in Roorkee and Delhi
Marieke visited India from March 4th-26th. She first presented her research at the International Conference on Meditation, where she talked about the role of computational modelling in meditation research. The research findings of the collaboration with Sera Jey monastic university were presented by some of the monastic collaborators. The conference was also covered by the… Continue reading Marieke visits India and presents at International Conference on Meditation Research
Marieke went to China from Oct 13th-22nd to present the University of Groningen at the International Graduate Student Fair. While there, she also gave the talk "Working memory and brain oscillations: a bell-and-hammer model" at the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Psychology. She visited Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence colleagues at Beihang University, University of… Continue reading Marieke visits China and India
On August 21st, Marieke visited the All India Institute for Medical Sciences in New Delhi and delivered a talk about "Creating a mind-wandering computer? The use of computational models to better understand cognition", when she visited the laboratory of Prof. Ratna Sharma, who is also working on mind-wandering. On September 2nd, Marieke then visited Prof.… Continue reading Marieke gives talks at AIIMS and IIT Mandi
Marieke went again to south India to visit Sera Jey monastery to collect behavioural and EEG data in the study of monastic debate. She also made use of the opportunity to give lectures at the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore (about the monastic debate study, and about ballet), the Centre for Neuroscience of… Continue reading More data collection at the Tibetan monastery in South India
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