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Vivian Hemmelder

Vivian Hemmelder

M.S. in Neuroscience
Harvard University

Disciplines: Neuroscience / Cognitive Science

Vivian Hemmelder received her bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology from the University of Amsterdam. After working in several neuroscience labs in Holland and the United States, she joined the Harvard Program in Neuroscience, where she conducted research on learning and decision-making in the labs of Naoshige Uchida and Samuel Gershman. Hemmelder recently received her Master's degree in Neuroscience from Harvard. She currently works as a consultant at AEF (Andersson Elffers Felix) in the Netherlands, where she advises organizations in the public sector on topics ranging from public safety to legal aid.

Articles

How The Human Brain Keeps Time
Tick Tock

How The Human Brain Keeps Time

By Vivian Hemmelder June 20, 2017

Our internal clock does a remarkably good job at tracking time.

Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity
Insatiable Minds

Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity

By Vivian Hemmelder & Tommy Blanchard, Harvard University September 8, 2016

The same evolutionary forces that fuel our interest in food and sex may also drive our insatiable thirst for information.

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