518 search results for “cognitive evolution” in the Student website
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Illusions as the key: how spatial technology can help patients
Spatial technology such as virtual reality can help patients who have difficulty with spatial cognition, for instance if they keep on losing their way. In her inaugural lecture, neuropsychologist Ineke van der Ham will talk about the importance of avatars, the patient experience and room for innovat…
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Melle van der MolenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jochanan VeerbeekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Student for a Day - Applied Cognitive Psychology (MSc Psychology)
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Amanda Henry -
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Birte Forstmann
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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How research sheds light on the invisible symptoms of MS
What are the often invisible cognitive consequences of multiple sclerosis? Maureen van Dam mapped these out during her doctoral research. 'People usually notice the physical symptoms, but the cognitive symptoms deserve at least as much attention.'
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Niek StrohmaierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ellen de BruijnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food
How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karline Janmaat is studying how humans and other primates adapt to their environment in their search for food. She will give her inaugural lecture as Professor…
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Yena KimFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Liwen MengFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Weitao ZhangFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arko GhoshFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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NWO-XS Grants for Psychology Researchers
Researchers Marit Ruitenberg and Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam have received NWO-XS grants for their research projects on freezing in Parkinson’s disease and the neurobiology of social anxiety. The grant supports innovative, curiosity-driven research within the social sciences and humanities.
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Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. A paper recently published…
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Natural brain opioids help us “see the bigger picture” after rewards
Feeling good doesn’t just lift our mood—it also helps us stay flexible and resilient. A new study by an international team of neuroscientists shows that natural brain opioids released after rewards play a key role in broadening attention, offering fresh insights into stress, cognition, and well-bein…
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Geert-Jan WillFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Internship and research coordinators
Some study programmes have a coordinator who is specialised in assisting students with internship and research matters.
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Pragmaticalization or grammaticalization? A multidimensional model of the evolution of pragmatic markers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma
Adults who were abused or mistreated as a child and consequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can benefit greatly from cognitive behavioural therapy. This is the conclusion of a study of 149 patients. Researcher and PhD candidate Chris Hoeboer is hopeful about the results and the…
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Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way
Two Leiden University science communication projects have been awarded a WECOM grant through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project is a study of the history of the deaf community in the Netherlands and the other is of a condition that causes people to lose their way.
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Iza KorsmitFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alessandro van den BergFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gezinus Wolters
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Manon MulckhuyseFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anoek LorskensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jolanda SnelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter PutmanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize
Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.
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Hanna Swaab
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Types of research
Reacting rapidly to a task, filling in a questionnaire, becoming immersed in a virtual world, having your heart rate measured, or having images made of your brain: our research is very diverse.
- Anchoring Objects: Material culture and the dynamics of innovation in the ancient world
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Kremlin's Control and Suppression Strategies: The evolution of the relationship between violence and disinformation between 2000 – 2021
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Minors
A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.