Curriculum Vitae Dr. Carlijn van den Boomen Personal details Title(s), initial(s), first name, surname: Dr. C. (Carlijn) van den Boomen Date and place of birth: July 27, 1986, Geldrop, the Netherlands Nationality: Dutch Gender: Female Current position University/College of Higher Education: Utrecht University Starting date (dd/mm/yy): 08/03/2014 Position: post-doc Doctorate University/College of Higher Education: Utrecht University Starting date (dd/mm/yy): 01/09/2009 Date of PhD award (dd/mm/yy): 07/03/2014 Supervisor ( Promotor ): Prof. Dr. Chantal Kemner Title of thesis: Suddenly I see! A developmental perspective on face processing Master s ( doctoraal ) cum laude University/College of Higher Education: Maastricht University Date (dd/mm/yy): 31/08/2009 Main subject: Research Master Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, and psychopathology Brief summary of my research over the last five years My research focuses on development of visual processing. I showed that basic visual processing continues to develop until early puberty, and that the influence of basic on complex visual processes changes throughout life. I used and compared psychophysics and neuroimaging (EEG, fnirs), showing that these techniques can complement each other in our understanding of the developing visual brain. Now that we know that the visual system needs multiple years to mature, we can continue to study what affects visual development. I previously showed that environmental (anesthesia, learning) or genetic factors (Cataract, Autism) limit visual development. To relate visual processes to a broader range of social and cognitive development, I am actively involved in two longitudinal cohort studies. I have a coordinating international role in the EU-AIMS project, studying early signs of Autism in infants and toddlers. Furthermore, in the Consortium Individual Development, we study individual differences in the development of social competence and behavioural control. In my future research, I aim to continue to examine the relation between basic and complex visual processes, and how these relate to social development. Ultimately, I aim to understand the flexibility of the developing brain, and possible influences on the course of development. Therefore, my research currently focuses on facilitating and restricting factors on visual brain development. Key publications (see below for a complete overview) 1. van den Boomen, C., Fahrenfort, J.J.F., Snijders, T.M., & Kemner, C. (2015). Segmentation precedes face categorization under suboptimal conditions. Front.Psych. 6:667 2. van den Boomen, C., Jonkman, L., Jaspers-Vlamings, P.H.J.M., Cousijn, J., & Kemner, C. (2015). Developmental changes in ERP Responses to Spatial Frequencies. PLoS ONE, 10(13): e0122507. 3. van den Boomen, C., Lamme, V.A.F., & Kemner, C. (2014). Parallel development of ERP and behavioural measurements of visual segmentation. Dev. Sci., 17(1), 1-10. 4. van den Boomen, C., de Graaff, J.C., de Jong, T.P.V.M., Kalkman, C.J., & Kemner, C. (2013). General anesthesia as a possible GABAergic modulator affects visual processing in children. Front. Cell. Neuroscience 7:42. 5. van den Boomen, C., van der Smagt, M.J. & Kemner, C. (2012). Keep your eyes on development - The behavioural and neurophysiological development of visual mechanisms underlying form processing. Front. Psychiatry 3:16.
International activities International collaborations 2015 Collaboration: Prof. Vincent Reid (Lancaster University), Dr. Judit Gervain (Universite Paris Descartes), Dr. Jill Lany (Univeristy of Notre Dame), Dr. Sabine Hunnius (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Summerschool on neurocognitive methods for infant and toddler research Responsibility: Coordination and contact with international and national speakers, day-to-day organisation 2014 now Collaboration: Prof. dr. Mark Johnson and Dr. Sarah Lloyd-Fox (BirkBeck University, London), and Prof. Clare Elwell (University College London) Optimizing functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fnirs) analyses to study social and cognitive neuroscience in infants. Responsibility: Designing and conducting analyses, during visit abroad (Spring 2015). Results presented during fnirs workshop. 2014 now Collaboration: International Innovative Training Network Brainview, lead by Prof. Jan Buitelaar (Radboud University Nijmegen) Establish an inter-disciplinary scientific network devoted to investigating the disruptions of prenatal and postnatal brain development that underlie neurodevelopmental disorders with onset early in life. Responsibility: Collaborative Principal Investigator, co-promotor and daily supervisor of a PhD student (R. di Lorenzo), coordinating the project within Utrecht, and between Utrecht and all other international partners. 2013 now Collaboration: EU-AIMS project, the largest grant for Autism research in the world, lead by Prof. Declan Murphy (King s College London) Study early signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder in infants and toddlers. Responsibility: Co-promotor and daily supervisor of a PhD student (N. Munsters), coordinating the project within Utrecht, and between Utrecht and all other international partners. Presentations at international events 2015 Invited presentation on fnirs signal analyses in infants at fnirs workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands 2015 Presentation on EU-AIMS project at European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal 2014 Invited expert in panel discussion on infant imaging methods at COST ESSEA conference, Toulouse, France 2012 Invited presentation of development of visual segmentation (output paper nr 4) at Endo Neuro Psycho Meeting, Doorwerth, the Netherlands International discussion panels 2013 Harmonizing psychophysiological data collection across Europe member of discussion panel, at Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, London, England
Organized workshops, summerschools and symposia 2015 Symposium From infancy to adulthood: how to set up and succeed in longitudinal interdisciplinary studies at European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal 2015 Summerschool Neurocognitive methods for infant and toddler research at Utrecht University 2014 International Training Methods to investigate early signs of Autism in infants at Utrecht University International courses attended 2014 Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fnirs) Course for developmental neuroscience workshop: Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, London, England 2012 Training School on Novel Methods in Developmental Research at the Uppsala Child and Baby Lab, Uppsala University, Sweden National activities National collaborations 2013 now collaborative researcher in the Consortium Individual Development, lead by Prof. Chantal Kemner (Utrecht University), in which I collaborate in the research project of Prof. Rene Kahn (UMC Utrecht) aiming to study individual differences in the development of social competence and 3 erceptive 3 control, and the interacting roles of environment and brain functions hereupon. 2012 now with Prof. Victor Lamme (University of Amsterdam) on typical and atypical development of visual segmentation 2010 now with Prof. Saskia Imhof, Prof. Cor Kalkman, Prof. Tom de Jong, and Dr. Jurgen de Graaff (UMC Utrecht) on influencing factors on visual brain development 2009 now with Dr. Johannes Fahrenfort (University of Amsterdam) and Dr. Tineke Snijders (Donders Institute) on relating basic to complex visual processes 2009 now with Dr. Judith Peters (Maastricht University; Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience) on visual perceptual learning Membership of national community - Consortium Individual Development - Baby Brain & Cognition Network - Helmholtz Institute Presentations at national events 2015 Test-retest reliability of infant ERPs evoked by faces. Talk presented at the Baby Brain & Cognition Network 2014 The Zebra-project: a longitudinal study on early signs of Autism Talk presented at the Baby Brain & Cognition Network 2012 On the effects of GABA modulation on vision in children. Talk presented at the Helmholtz Institute 2012 Effects on vision in children after anesthesia. Talk presented at the Nederlandse OK-dagen 2010 Connections between texture segregation and face perception. Talk presented at the Helmholtz Institute
Outreach aimed at general public 2016 Vroege kenmerken van ASS in baby s en peuters. (Early signs of ASD in infants and toddlers). Talk presented at the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme 2015 Alles Kids! (All Kids!) Demonstrating research methods to children during public event culturele zondag (cultural Sunday). The event was organized in collaboration with the city of Utrecht and the science museum in Utrecht 2015 Een kijkje in het babybrein: wat leren we daarvan? (A look inside the baby brain: what can we learn from it) Talk presented as part of the UMC Utrecht Publiekslezingen 2014 Zoek de verschillen! Kun je leren dit beter te doen? (Look for the differences! Can you learn to do this better?) Demonstrating research methods to children in science museum Nemo (Amsterdam). 2014 Vier jaar in vier 4 ercep: 4 erceptive en interactive. (Four years in four minutes: perception and interaction) Talk presented at Expeditie UU, Organized by Studium Generale Other academic activities Management and organisation tasks 2015 now Brainview, an international innovative training network on predictors of neurodevelopmental disorders with early onset. Management: coordinating the project within Utrecht, and between Utrecht and all other international partners. 2014 now Consortium Individual Development, a national longitudinal study aiming to understand and predict how the interplay of child characteristics and environmental factors results in individual differences in the development of social competence and behavioural control of the child. Management: Advice in study and lab design; hiring and training research assistants 2014 now functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy lab Utrecht, which is the first lab using this novel technique in Utrecht. Management: coordination and advice for studies, including lab and study design, and providing analyses workshops. 2013 now EUAIMS, an international consortium studying early signs of Autism in infants and toddlers Management: coordinating the project within Utrecht, and between Utrecht and all other international partners. Education 2010 now Supervising bachelor and (research) master students from various backgrounds such as Psychology and Biomedical Science, during their research internship and thesis on visual and social perception in children and adults. 2009 now Providing lectures at bachelor, honours, and (research) master level on visual and social development. Academic staff supervised PhDs Ongoing 2 PhD students (N.M. Munsters and R. di Lorenzo), on developmental visual and social neuroscience Please indicate your (formal) role Co-promotor and daily supervisor Master students 5 Daily supervisor and first examiner Other 6 research assistants Daily supervisor and 18 bachelor students first examiner
Scholarships, grants and prizes * the amount allocated for my own group in the consortium. Scholarship/Grant/ Prize Amount * Year of award Formal applicant Visiting scientist at CBCD 6000 2014 London for collaboration on fnirs; provided by Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht Travel grant to attend 700 2013 discussion panel on harmonizing psychophysiological data collection across Europse; provided by COST-ESSEA Travel grant to attend 1400 2012 Training school on novel methods in developmental research; provided by COST-ESSEA Subtotal 8100 Scholarship/Grant/Prize Formal co-applicant Marie Sklodowska-Curie 3.889.000 * 245.114 2014 International Training Network BrainView ; provided by European Commission Organization of 3.000 2014 summerschool Grant provided by Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht Subtotal 3.892.000 Total 3.900.100
Output Refereed articles 1. Hessels, R.S., Kemner, C., van den Boomen, C., & Hooge, I.T.C. (in press). The area-ofinterest problem in eye-tracking research: a noise-robust solution for face and sparse stimuli. Beh. research methods (IF 2.9) 2. van den Boomen, C., Fahrenfort, J.J.F., Snijders, T.M., & Kemner, C. (2015). Segmentation precedes face categorization under suboptimal conditions. Front. Psychology 6:667 (IF 2.6) 3. van den Boomen, C., Jonkman, L., Jaspers-Vlamings, P.H.J.M., Cousijn, J., & Kemner, C. (2015). Developmental changes in ERP Responses to Spatial Frequencies. PLoS ONE, 10(13): e0122507. (IF 3.2) 4. van den Boomen, C., Lamme, V.A.F., & Kemner, C. (2014). Parallel development of ERP and behavioural measurements of visual segmentation. Dev. Sci., 17(1), 1-10. (IF 3.8) 5. van den Boomen, C., de Graaff, J.C., de Jong, T.P.V.M., Kalkman, C.J., & Kemner, C. (2013). General anesthesia as a possible GABAergic modulator affects visual processing in children. Front. Cell. Neuroscience 7:42. (IF 4.3) 6. van den Boomen, C., van der Smagt, M.J. & Kemner, C. (2012). Keep your eyes on development - The behavioural and neurophysiological development of visual mechanisms underlying form processing. Front. Psychiatry 3:16. (IF Unknown) Non-refereed articles 7. Van den Boomen, C. & Braukmann, R. (2014). Het Zebra-project onderzoekt: is Autisme zichtbaar in baby s? Engagement met autisme, dec 2014, 12-14. (The Zebra-project studies: is Autism visible in infants?) Books 8. van den Boomen, C. (2014). Suddenly I see! A developmental perspective on face processing. PhD Dissertation. Ede: Ponsen & Looijen. Other Refereed Conference Poster abstracts 9. van den Boomen, C., & Peters, J.C. (2015). Optimizing methods for perceptual learning in children. Society for Research in Child Development, Leiden, The Netherlands. 10. van den Boomen, C., Koenraads, Y., Lamme, V.A.F., Imhof, S.M., & Kemner, C. (2015). Does experience shape the brain? The effect of cataract on development of visual segmentation. European conference on developmental psychology, Braga, Portugal. Also presented at Flux 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands. 11. Munsters, N.M., van den Boomen, C., van Raavenswaaij, H., & Kemner, C. (2015). Testretest reliability of infant ERPs evoked by faces. Flux, Leiden, The Netherlands. 12. van den Boomen, C., Jonkman, L.M., Vlamings, P.H.J.M., & Kemner, C. (2014). Development of ERP responses to detailed and global information. UK-Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium, London, England. Also presented at COST-ESSEA conference 2014, Toulouse, France. 13. Munsters, N.M., van den Boomen, C., & Kemner, C. (2014). Processing emotions in the infant brain: the effects of detailed and global information. UK-Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium, London, England. 14. van den Boomen, C., Fahrenfort, J.J., & Kemner, C. (2013). Abnormalities in early visual processing of faces in Autism. International Meeting For Autism Research, San Sebastian, Spain. 15. van den Boomen, C., Koekkoek, M.A.G., Spruijt, B.M., & Kemner, C. (2012). Effects of background sound on visual processing. Novel Methods in Developmental Research, Uppsala, Sweden. 16. Koekkoek, M.A.G., van den Boomen, C., Spruijt, B.M., & Kemner, C. (2012). Emotional face processing in adults and infants: an EEG study. 10th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting: Doorwerth, the Netherlands. 17. van den Boomen, C., Lamme, V.A.F., & Kemner, C. (2012). Visual texture segregation in
children: similar developmental trajectories of behaviour and neurocognitive measures. 3 rd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium: Londen, UK. 18. van den Boomen, C., de Graaff, J.C., de Jong, T.P.V.M., & Kemner, C. (2011). Longlasting effects of GABA administration on vision in children. 11th International Conference On cognitive Neuroscience: Palma, Mallorca. Also presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society: San Francisco, VS (2011) and at 9 th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho meeting: Doorwerth, the Netherlands (2011), at European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology, Stresa, Italy (2012), and at Annual Meeting ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists): Chicago, VS (2011). 19. Kooy, D.C., van den Boomen, C., Fahrenfort, J.J., & Kemner, C. (2011). On the correlations between textured face processing and traits of Autism; an EEG Study. 9th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho meeting: Doorwerth, The Netherlands. 20. van den Boomen, C., & Kemner, C. (2010). Effects of grating type and spatial frequency on visual evoked potentials in autistic children. Forum of European Neuroscience: Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Also presented at 16 th annual meeting of the organization of Human Brain Mapping: Barcelona, Spain (2010). 21. Sorger, B., Peters, J., van den Boomen, C., Zilverstand, A., Reithler, J., & Goebel, R. (2010). Real-time decoding of the locus of visuospatial attention using multi-voxel pattern classification. 16 th annual meeting of the organization of Human Brain Mapping: Barcelona, Spain. 22. van den Boomen, C., Kemner, C., & Peters, J.C. (2009). Perceptual learning of low spatial frequency gratings to improve emotional face processing: an ERP study. 8th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho meeting: Doorwerth, The Netherlands.