In 2012 I moved to the University of Oxford to join Prof Dorothy Bishop's lab as Postdoctoral Research Fellow, funded by a Rubicon fellowship. Please visit my website: http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers/elsje-vanbergen

• Science Museum NEMO (Reading fluency: Like parent like child?)

• My Oxford website

Media

My research in the media:

• Press release of van Bergen et al., JCPP (in English, June '11)

• Psychologie Magazine (in Dutch, Sep 11)

• NEMO study in NRC (in Dutch, Dec '11)

• Press report of the NEMO study (in Dutch, Dec '11)

• Press report of the NEMO study (in English, Dec '11)

• TV programme about Dyslexia (in Dutch, March '12)

• Interview following Rubicon grant (in Dutch, July '12)

• Two young UvA researchers Rubicon grant (in English, July '12)

• Kinderwijz (in Dutch, Nov '13)

Education

• 2005-2006 - M.Sc. Human Movement Sciences (cum laude), VU University Amsterdam & University of Aberdeen
• 2002-2005 - B.Sc Human Movement Sciences (cum laude), VU University Amsterdam
• 2001-2002 - Science and Innovation Management (first year), University Utrecht

Publications

• van Bergen, E., van der Leij, A, & de Jong, P.F. (in press). The intergenerational multiple deficit model and the case of dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00346

• van Bergen, E., de Jong, P.F., Maassen, B., & van der Leij, A. (in press). The effect of parents' literacy skills and children's preliteracy skills on the risk of dyslexia. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-014-9858-9

• van Bergen, E., de Jong, P.F., Maassen, B., Krikhaar, E., Plakas, A., van der Leij, A. (in press). IQ of four-year-olds who go on to develop dyslexia. Journal of Learning Disabilities. doi: 10.1177/0022219413479673
• D.A.V. van der Leij, E. van Bergen, T.L. van Zuijen, P.F. de Jong, N. Maurits & B.A.M. Maassen (2013). Precursors of developmental dyslexia. An overview of the longitudinal DDP study. Dyslexia, 19, 191-213.
• van Bergen, E. (2013). Who will develop dyslexia? Cognitive precursors in parents and children (Doctoral thesis, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). http://dare.uva.nl/record/437709
• van der Leij, A., van Bergen, E., & de Jong, P.F (2013). Longitudinal family-risk studies of dyslexia: Why some children develop dyslexia and others don’t. In A.J. Fawcett (Ed.), British Dyslexia Association Handbook 2013. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association.
• Litt, R.A., de Jong, P.F., van Bergen, E., & Nation, K. (2013). Dissociating crossmodal and verbal demands in paired associate learning (PAL): What drives the PAL-reading relationship? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 115(1), 137-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.012
• van Bergen, E., de Jong, P.F., Plakas, A., Maassen, B., & van der Leij, A. (2012). Child and parental literacy levels within families with a history of dyslexia. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53(1), 28-36 .  
• Torppa, M., Eklund, K., van Bergen, E., & Lyytinen, H. (2011). Parental literacy predicts children's literacy: A longitudinal family-risk study. Dyslexia, 17(4), 339-355.
• van Bergen, E., de Jong, P.F., Regtvoort, A., Oort, F., S. van Otterloo, & van der Leij, A. (2011). Dutch children at family risk of dyslexia: Precursors, reading development, and parental effects. Dyslexia, 17(1), 2-18 .
• van Swieten, L.M., van Bergen, E., Williams, J.H.G., Wilson, A.D., Plumb, M.S., Kent, S.W., & Mon-Williams, M.A. (2010). A test of motor (not executive) planning in developmental coordination disorder and autism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(2), 493-499 .
• van Bergen, E., van Swieten, L.M., Williams, J.H.G., & Mon-Williams, M. (2007). The effect of orientation on prehension movement time. Experimental Brain Research , 178(2), 180-193.

Download publications:

• van Bergen et al. (in press). JACP

• van Bergen et al. (in press). JLD

• van der Leij et al. (2013). Dyslexia

• van der Leij et al. (2013). BDA Handbook

• Litt et al. (2013). JECP

• van Bergen et al. (2012). JCPP

• Torppa et al. (2011). Dyslexia

• van Bergen et al. (2011). Dyslexia

• van Bergen et al. (2007). EBR

• van Swieten et al. (2010). JEP: HPP

Teaching Experience

In 2011 I obtained my teaching degree (BKO).
My teaching experience at the University of Amsterdam (2008 -2012) includes:

• Guest lecture on Psychology: development, personality, and learning (1st year Bachelor, 2011)
• Guest lecture on Methods and statistics (TMLS, 2nd year Bachelor, 2010, 2011)
• Supervisor of a Master student's research internship (2011)
• Teaching assistant on Longitudinal data-analysis (research Master,2010)
• Guest lecture on Learning and social-emotional disorders in educational context (research Master, 2010, 2011)
• Teaching assistant on Methods and statistics in educational research (research Master, 2008)

At the VU University Amsterdam I was a teaching assistant (2004 - 2008) in the courses Mathematics , Statistics , and Neurosciences .

Free Time

In my free time I enjoy doing acrobatic gymnastics.

• Picture I (here I'm the base)

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