420 search results for “cognitive neuroscience” in the Student website
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Pascal HaazebroekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Isabelle HoxhaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eline DekeysterFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jop Groeneweg
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Zachry KlopFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Can birds imitate Star Wars robot? Yes – and some are surprisingly good at it
Scientists have discovered that starlings and parrots can imitate the complex sounds of Star Wars droid R2-D2 remarkably well. Their study reveals how the structure of a bird’s vocal organ determines its vocal abilities – and how citizen science helps uncover it.
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Psychology Elevator Pitch: How a better sleep pattern makes students mentally healthier
Do you often find yourself exhausted in the lecture hall or at your workplace? Not great for your mental well-being, as Laura Pape knows. She is investigating how an online self-help program can assist in addressing sleep issues and preventing mental health problems. Join her on this elevator pitch…
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Markus DavidsenFaculty of Humanities
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum
From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them more if they receive information that is specially tailored to young visitors? Join psychologist Francesco Walker at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and see…
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Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm)
How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? ‘The best students ever’ and behavioural biologist Michelle Spierings demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move rhythmically—each following their own unique beat.
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Leiden FSW spin-off Axite receives UNIIQ investment for a home-based brain-monitoring platform
Axite, a start-up rooted in research at Leiden University’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSW), receives €350,000 from UNIIQ for the further development of NeuroJournal: a platform that uses an EEG headband and smartphone app to provide long-term insight into brain activity outside the laboratory.
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Femke Stad
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Motoyuki SanadaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Aminata BicegoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Francesco WalkerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tonko ZijlstraFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Karlijn van HeijstFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rajat Ravi RaoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kia RadovanovicFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Diego Barbosa Arize SantosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bold and anxious fish help in the hunt for medication for ADHD and depression
Personality is genetic in zebrafish: risk-taking parents have risk-taking children. These are the findings of research by Christian Tudorache and his team published in BMC Neuroscience.
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Adolescence: Sexual Becoming in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam — home to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) — hosted an interdisciplinary workshop organized by dr. Rafal Matuszewski, an ancient historian at the Institute for History in Leiden.
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Singing parrots wanted: is our musicality unique?
Is our musicality unique? That’s what the Bird Singalong project aims to find out. And for that, they need the help of feathered friends from all around the world. ‘By researching how parrots learn songs, we also learn more about the origin of our own musicality.’ Do you have a parrot that can sing…
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Lowlands as lab: virtual trips in the name of science
While tens of thousands of visitors dance to deafening music, a team of Leiden psychologists are trying to collect data for their research at Lowlands. How do festivalgoers experience a virtual trip? And what role do factors such as too little sleep and whether they have experience with psychedelics…
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Bart Verkuil
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Roderik Gerritsen in The Guardian on breathing
The market is flooded with books and classes claiming ‘breathwork’ can help with mental health, sleep and even Covid-19. But are experts convinced? Cognitive psychologist Roderik Gerritsen explains the role of breathing on stress.
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Jennifer BeckerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Meredith SprengelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eliska ProchazkovaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rüya AkdagFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Aidan LyonFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chris RiddellFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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New clue to severe MS progression: ‘Overloaded cleanup cells’ in the brain
Researcher Daan van der Vliet, together with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Leiden University and Utrecht University, has discovered an important mechanism that may be linked to severe cases of multiple sclerosis (MS): the brain contains large numbers of abnormal immune…