From a young age, I have been fascinated by babies. They are so sweet, pure, and they develop incredibly fast. I have worked a lot with babies and children, including as a babysitter, and I am always amazed at how quickly they learn something new. Their capacity to learn seems infinite. What exactly happens in that little brain?
As a psychobiology student, I discovered that I can study precisely this. When I attended my first lecture on the baby brain, I knew for certain: this is what I want to research. In my final year of the bachelor’s program, I am doing an internship with Prof. Ingmar Visser’s habituation research. In this study, we examine how babies habituate to certain stimuli and which factors play a role in this process.