1,216 search results for “brain and behaviour” in the Public website
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About
The Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences has the responsibility for all PhD candidates in the field of social and behavioural sciences. The School's themes are anthropology, education and child studies, political science, psychology and science and technology studies..
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Liesbeth de Lange wins Lewis B. Sheiner Career Prize
Pharmacologist Liesbeth de Lange has won the Lewis B. Sheiner Lecturer Award from the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). As Professor of Predictive Pharmacology she is working, among other things, on a mathematical model that can predict drug concentrations in the brain. On the occasion…
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Searching for an explanation for remarkable behaviour of ice on Earth
If you replace the standard hydrogen atoms in ice with a heavier variant, something odd happens. The volume occupied by the molecules increases by 0.1 per cent. Leiden chemist Jörg Meyer and his colleagues have created a theoretical model that describes this behaviour. Their research appeared on the…
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How to find a supervisor
This procedure is relevant for contract and external PhD candidates only.
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MIGRADROME: new study on the impact of vessel sound pollution on fish behaviour
Fishes rely heavily on sound to find their way during migration or dispersal. Many species are affected by noise pollution. Hans Slabbekoorn from the Institute of Biology Leiden received a HORIZON2020 grant of 500,000 euros to study the impact of sound conditions on movement decisions of fishes.
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
On the 12th of October, Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Fatemeh on this achievement!
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Sybil-AA: Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction
The Horizon 2020 project Sybil-AA (Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction) focuses on modeling and validating disease state networks in human and animal brains for understanding pathophysiology, predicting outcomes and improving therapy in alcohol addiction. Alcohol addiction, the most severe form of…
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Explaining Government–Opposition Voting in Parliament
How to explain variation in the extent to which parliamentary voting behaviour follows the government–opposition divide? Party Politics article by Tom Louwerse et al.
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Coen Wirtz
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.wirtz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3731
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Bianca Boyer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
b.e.boyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nina Komrij
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.l.komrij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5378
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Rudy Andeweg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
andeweg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3936
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Hans Slabbekoorn
Science
h.w.slabbekoorn@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5049
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Marijn Nagtzaam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.a.m.nagtzaam@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Yvette Dijkxhoorn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
dijkx@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3822
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Lisa Schreuders
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.schreuders@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sandra van Dijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
sdijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3913
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David Heyne
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
d.heyne@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elina Zorina
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.zorina@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3879
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Veronica Janssen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
v.r.janssen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jiemiao Chen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.chen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mirjam Wever
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.c.m.wever@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Neeltje van den Bedem
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.p.van.den.bedem@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Contact
The Institute of Education and Child Studies is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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Contact
The programme group Clinical Neurodevelopment Sciences is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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The program group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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The programme group Educational Sciences is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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The programme group Parenting, Child Care and Development is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Leiden University near Central Station.
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Graduate School Office
The Graduate School Office of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences provides support to the Dean and the Institutes and is point of contact for you and your supervisors.
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Contact
The programme group Research Methods and Statistics is part of the Institute of Education and Child Studies. This group is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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Reconciling conflicting interests
A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other halfway. Psychologists, anthropologists and political scientists from Leiden are making invaluable contributions to that understanding. You can find out…
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Van Vonno, Achieving Party Unity: A Sequential Approach to Why MPs Act in Concert (dissertation)
Cynthia van Vonno, political scientist at Leiden University, explains why individual MPs vote according to the party group line.
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Making energy personal: policy coordination challenges in UK smart meter implementation
Governments are increasingly facilitating the roll-out of so-called “smart meters”, a technology for measuring energy consumption that are able to transmit and receive data using a form of electronic communication. However, implementation has been slow or even stalled.
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Joop van Holsteyn & Tom Louwerse, The Dutch 2016 Referendum: Voice, No Exit
Political scientists Joop van Holsteyn and Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) find that the Dutch government is having a hard time coping with referendum outcomes in general, and ‘anti-European’ sentiments among voters in particular.
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Van der Meer, Janssen & Louwerse, ‘The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system’
Political scientists Tom van der Meer, Lisa Janssen (University of Amsterdam) and Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) analyse polls presented by the main polling agencies in the Netherlands, as well as micro-level panel data. They reach three main conclusions. First, vote intention polls in the Netherlands…
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First person
Does the sitter have agency in the making of a photographic portrait? And if so how?
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Berna Güroglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
bguroglu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Contact
The Institute of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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Contact
The program group Learning and Behavior Problems in Education is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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Eveline Crone: 'Stay healthy'
Eveline Crone: 'Many thanks to my amazing Brain and Development Research Center colleagues. I am so thankful for the 15 fantastic years. It is also extremely exciting and energizing to start at Erasmus University Rotterdam with the Society, Youth and Neuroscience Connected SYNClab.'
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New Methods for (f)MRI Analysis
Analysis of neuroimaging data requires multiple steps where statistics play a crucial role. The MRI methods research group develops new statistical methods that are accurate, transparent and easy to use.
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Robots and burial mounds
Neural networks have a wide range of applications. In Leiden, psychologists use them to build robot brains, whereas archaeologists use them to hunt for prehistoric graves.
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Expansion YAL in 2020
The Young Academy Leiden welcomed six new members in 2020.
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Contact
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Contact
To get in touch with the 'Food citizens?' project, you can write us an email.
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Contact | Project 0100
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From oscillations to language
On the 17th of January, Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Sarah on this achievement!
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Magnetic Resonance Microimaging of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder and the primary cause of dementia. The neuropathological features of AD include the occurrence of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, decreased synaptic density, and loss of neurons. An obstacle in the study and treatment…
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Singing is silver, hearing is gold: impacts of local FoxP1 knockdowns on auditory perception and gene expression in female zebra finches
The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.