1,267 search results for “cognitive neuroscience” in the Public website
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus collaboration brings self-learning healthcare system a step closer
More effective diagnosis and prognosis than ever, with less intrusive medical screening? Scientists from Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam are well on the way to achieving just that. Imaging professors Serge Rombouts and Wiro Niessen are working on an extremely rigorous, self-learning adviser for radiologists.…
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How e-coaching helps people with chronic kidney disease to live more healthily
An e-coaching programme helps people with chronic kidney disease, particularly in areas that patients themselves want to work on. ‘A healthy lifestyle is important for patients with kidney disease: it can slow down the loss of kidney function and there will be fewer complications,’ Katja Cardol explains…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything.’
‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting researchers to be experts at everything, even though she herself keeps a lot of balls in the air.
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples
How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in the act of infecting a cell. Artificial intelligence has penetrated every corner of science in Zuid-Holland. Three researchers from Delft University of…
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanities projects will receive the funding.
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Psychologist Bart Verkuil strikes a blow against burnout
Burnout is on the increase. It is caused by group pressure, being ‘on’ all the time and asking too much of ourselves. Clinical psychologist Bart Verkuil advises lowering our expectations.
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Margot van der Doef first Leiden psychologist to hold Senior Teaching Qualification
'Continuing to work on my professional development is inspiring and stimulating, and it’s rewarding to have an influence on how psychology is taught.’ This is how Margot van der Doef describes the track that brought her the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). ‘And you can easily do it in parallel with…
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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone
Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and discovered that men, in particular, tend to overestimate the interest of their date. She explains why this may be.
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The smoes under scrutiny
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Why do multilingual children mix their languages?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Optimal population turnover for cultural evolution depend on network size, density and learnability
Lecture
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- OSCL meets LIBC Sylvius Lecture: The Registered Reports (r)evolution by Prof. Chris Chambers
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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Blended Learning: Using digital tools for teaching
Didactics
- OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Paul Natorp’s Reformulation of the Kantian Distinction between Intuition and Concept
PhD defence
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Pain and it's consequences in dementia
PhD defence
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3D modeling and RNA-based therapeutics for Dutch-type Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
PhD defence
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Breaking Barriers, Personalizing Pathways - Psychological health and self-management of people with chronic kidney disease
PhD defence
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Recognition and Reward: What Will It Bring Us?
Lecture
- Liveable communities – Liveable Planet
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Technology and privacy: trust or mistrust?
Conference
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Mental wellbeing
You can find some tips here on how to maintain your mental health.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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How do you help a child suffering from depression?
What causes depression in a child and how can they get over it? Leiden Professor of Psychology Bernet Elzinga and behavioural scientist Carine Kielstra recently hosted a webinar on the subject of depression in teenagers. The level of interest was overwhelming.
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Editorial | The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15 Years On: Past and Present Board Members on Future Research
It is fifteen years since the first issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (HJD) in 2006. To mark the occasion, we put together an editorial on where diplomacy, diplomatic studies and HJD might be going.
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Blog Post | An Identity Perspective on Non-great Power Public Diplomacy
The postwar Liberal International Order faces grave challenges today mostly in the form of geopolitical competitions among great powers and exclusionary identity politics unfolding across different countries.
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Social Science Matters: The stressed society
Stress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at the international level, tensions lead to short-sighted actions; and, at the personal level, stress affects our health and social environment. How do our…
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Neanderthals hunted straight-tusked elephants, 125,000 years ago
A Leiden and Mainz (Germany) based team studies the activities of early humans in a 125,000 years old Last Interglacial ecosystem, formerly exposed in a large open cast brown coal pit near Halle (Germany). The Last Interglacial is an important warm-temperate period, showing the full flora and fauna…
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Om te beginnen met gezond gedrag moeten vaak eerst problemen als schimmel op de muren of financiële sores worden aangepakt
Medici kunnen veel repareren, maar ziekte voorkomen of uitstellen is beter. Daarvoor is vaak leefstijlverandering nodig en dat blijkt lastig. Gezondheidswetenschappers Sandra van Dijk (Universiteit Leiden) en Valentijn Visch (TU Delft) doen onderzoek naar de vraag hoe je mensen kunt helpen met gedragsverandering…
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher
For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee Turkey and start again from scratch in the Netherlands. Re-entering the academic world was a challenge, but he rediscovered his love for the field in…
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and Helsinki has investigated the development of friendships within the Leiden student association Augustinus and obtained some remarkable results.
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The new self-evaluation of the Institute of Psychology: ‘The quality of the academic culture is more important’
Better supervision of PhD candidates, clear guidelines on career paths and an MRI scanner that can be accessed by all researchers: these are the recommendations from the new self-evaluation. Colleagues say: ‘This forces us as an institute to formulate our mission and vision more precisely.’
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Methodology & Statistics Alumni meet students in Psychology
Alumni event, Career