University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

I’ve long wanted to know why I stuttered with a nine-year-old brain but not with a thirteen-year-old brain. One summer, I had the opportunity to use EEG machines to measure signals from the brain and correlate them to certain letters in the alphabet. The experience made me realize I have even more questions about the brain that I’d like to answer, and UIUC’s dynamic cognitive psychology and neuroscience program is the best place for me to get those answers. My high school classes, like computer science, music theory, philosophy, and statistics, introduced me to the ways in which these fields…