
Tineke Grent-'t-Jong is working as an Associate in Research in the Woldorff Lab, where she is responsible for the maintenance and technical support of all EEG equipment and EEG analysis software. She is the person to talk to if you want some EEG training or guidance on how to conduct or analyze your EEG/ERP study. She also assists in writing research reports and research grants. In addition to being an Associate in Research, she is working on her dissertation, which she expects to be able to defend late 2008 or early 2009 at the University of Utrecht in her country of origin, the Netherlands. The University of Utrecht is also the place were she received her Master's degree in Biopsychology in October 2001. Her main interest - and topic of her dissertation - involves attentional control mechanisms in the brain. Everyone intuitively knows what attention is, but surprisingly, scientific knowledge regarding the underlying mechanisms by which attention exerts its effects on information processing is quite rudimentory. Because attention is such an essential aspect of brain functioning in everyone's daily life, she has focused her studies on discovering the underlying sources of attention in the brain and their temporal dynamics during information processing. Here main goal for the near future is finding markers of attentional control mechanisms that can be used in the development of effective attention training tools.