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Esther van den Bos
Esther works as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University this year on a grant from the Dutch ‘Niels Stensen Stichting’. She obtained her Ph.D from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in June 2007. Esther’s main research interest is in implicit (statistical) learning: a process by which patterns in the environment are picked up without being searched for. For her thesis, she has been investigating the circumstances under which implicit learning occurs and the kind of structures that can be learned implicitly (in collaboration with Dr. Fenna Poletiek). During her stay in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, she will examine statistical learning of structures that occur in natural language, like (probabilistic) non-adjacent dependencies. In addition to conducting behavioral experiments, she will explore potential ERP correlates of learning such structures. Other questions that have her attention include the relation between implicit and explicit knowledge, the development of implicit statistical learning and how this process relates to cognitive processes like attention, memory and language. Besides implicit learning, Esther has a general interest in many areas of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Publications Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (in press). Intentional artificial grammar learning: When does it work? European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2006). Implicit artificial grammar learning in adults and children. In Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2619). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Van den Bos, E. & Jeannerod, M. (2002). Sense of body and sense of action both contribute to self-recognition. Cognition, 85, 117-187. Manuscripts in preparation Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (submitted). Structural selection in implicit learning of artificial grammars. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek. F.H. (in preparation). Effects of grammar complexity on artificial grammar learning. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek. F.H. (in preparation). The occurrence of implicit artificial grammar learning: when useful structures draw attention. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (in preparation). Implicit learning of a useful structure by adults and children. Presentations Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2007). Implicit artificial grammar learning: when the structure is useful. Talk presented at the 15^th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, August. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2006). Implicit artificial grammar learning in adults and children. Poster presented at the 28^th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, July. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2005). Implicit artificial grammar learning: Only if it helps to choose the right ice-cream. Talk presented at the 10^th winter conference of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie, Egmond aan Zee, December. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2005). Implicit learning of artificial grammars: Under what conditions? Poster presented at the 46^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, November. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2005). Increasing the complexity of artificial grammars: Effects on implicit learning performance and type of knowledge acquired. Talk presented at the 14^th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Leiden, September. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2005). Increasing complexity in artificial grammar learning: effects on performance and type of knowledge. Talk presented at the symposium ‘Implicit cognition and attention in experimental psychopathology and health research: Indirect measures or dual processes?’ Maastricht, August. Van den Bos, E. & Poletiek, F.H. (2003). Goal-directedness and efficiency in implicit learning of artificial grammars. Poster presented at the 13^th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Granada, September. <- back to people

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