Her thesis work was carried out in the Hearing Research Laboratories of the University of Utrecht. During her postdoctoral training her interest shifted toward the central nervous system. In her recent research on the network properties of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, she has applied a combination of in vitro voltage sensitive dye imaging and extracellular recordings. In her VENI project (2004-2007) she studied theta oscillations and functional connectivity. In current project, the micro-circuitry of the perirhinal cortex is characterized, in particular to understand the functioning of the perirhinal gate, by investigating the relations between the participating excitatory and inhibitory neurons and their intercommunication.