Linda van Leijenhorst
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. L. van Leijenhorst
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3750
- lleijenhorst@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2487-1391
Short CV
Linda van Leijenhorst is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Leiden University in 2010 and spent 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before moving back to Leiden in 2011.
Research
Linda's research is centered around the question how the ability to control our thoughts and behaviour changes with development, and how this development relates to changes in brain function and structure. She examines these questions in children, adolescents and young adults using behavioral as well as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) methods. Her current research aims to elucidate the development of reading comprehension in relation to brain development.
Awards
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2010 UCLA Brain Research Institute Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Award ($ 500)
Grants
- 2014 NWO Talent Grant (with Paul van den Broek & Marcella Pavias) voor AiO positie
- 2011 LIBC Starting Grant (€ 50.000)
- 2010 NWO RUBICON grant for postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, USA (€ 44.620)
- 2008 Leiden University Fund Travel Grant, to present at both the CNS (Cognitive Neuroscience Society) and SRA (Society for Research on Adolescence) meetings and visit the Poldrack Lab at UCLA, USA (€ 1500)
- 2004 Grants to support research internship at UC Davis, USA
Bekker-la Bastide fonds (€ 1000)
Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch fonds (€ 1000)
AUV fonds (€ 1000)
Relevant links
PHd candidates
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
- Onderwijswetenschappen
- Karlsson A.K.J. & Van Leijenhorst L. (2014), The role of working memory in updating a mental model during sentence comprehension in children. Lecture IASCL, Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [lecture].
- Van Leijenhorst L. (2014), Neural correlates of revising a situation model for sentences describing multiple events in children and young adults. Lecture IASCL, Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [lecture].
- Mouw J.M., Saab N., Leijenhorst L. van & Broek P.W. van den (2014), Identifying valence and arousal of protagonists' and readers' own emotional states. ST&D Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA. Chicago, United States. [lecture].