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• Special training and testing reveal children's potential for learning News - 9 October 2024

  Traditional school tests, like the Dutch CITO, largely reflect students' existing knowledge and abilities. However, dynamic testing sheds light on students' learning potential, discovered Mirjam de Vreeze in her PhD research. This approach is especially promising for children with learning challenges,…

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  Bianca Boyer Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  b.e.boyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time News - 4 July 2022

  There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study. The results of the study were recently published in Nature Neuroscience.

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  Michael McCabe III PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.d.mccabe.iii@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tessa Verhoef Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.verhoef@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277903

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  Maximilian König PhD candidate / guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  m.konig@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marina Terkourafi Professor Sociolinguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3159

• Functional MRI Analysis (Basics) Course

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  Philip Spinhoven Professor emeritus Clinical Psychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  spinhoven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Birte Forstmann Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  b.u.forstmann@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Fabiola Diana Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  f.diana@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay Event - 11 October 2024

  Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars

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  Nina Komrij Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  n.l.komrij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto Guest reseacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  David Bezpalec Phd-candidate / Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  d.b.bezpalec@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yena Kim Guest Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  y.kim@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Dawa Dupont Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  d.dupont@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Host-Gut Microbiota Changes in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment Event - 5 December 2024

  PhD defence

• Researchers about the labs

  Since the opening of the SSH labs in the Sylvius Building, more and more researchers are starting in the state-of-the-art lab spaces. What research are they doing, and how do they like the new facilities? Read about their experiences.

• Assessment formats

  The most common assessment formats and points to consider when making your choice.

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  Tonko Zijlstra Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  t.w.zijlstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arko Ghosh Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.ghosh@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5123

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  Diego Barbosa Arize Santos Engineering and application manager

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  d.barbosa.arize.santos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Moji Aghajani: "Make your course multidimensional"

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  Leticia Rettore Micheli Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  l.rettore.micheli@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Toelating en selectie

  Toelating en selectie

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  Peter Putman Associate Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  pputman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4818

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  Hanna Swaab Professor of Neurocognitive Development and Developmental Disorders

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060

• reproduction of hate speech and its unregulated end: lessons from cognitive pragmatics and argumentation theory Event - 4 November 2024

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Niek Strohmaier Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Law

  n.strohmaier@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7997

• Tinder for orang-utans: comparing sexually selective cognition among Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens) Event - 13 March 2024

  PhD defence

• PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma News - 10 January 2022

  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…

• LIBC Publieksdag 2025: hoopvolle inzichten in hersenonderzoek News - 6 November 2025

  From historical understandings to new treatments: during the Public Day of the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, curious visitors learned how rapidly research into brain disorders is evolving. ‘I found the neurosurgery and the research on organoids on chips particularly fascinating.’

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  Iza Korsmit Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  i.r.korsmit@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Anoek Lorskens Education and research assistant

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.lorskens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jolanda Snel PhD candidate / self funded

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.h.snel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wenyu Wan Researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  w.wan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alessandro van den Berg Lecturer

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.s.van.den.berg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way News - 1 August 2024

  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.

• Assessment matrices

  When putting together your assessment, it may be useful to use an assessment matrix. This is a table in which you link the learning objectives to test questions and indicate the weight you give each objective in the assessment. It can be requested in the context of a programme accreditation.

• Script: Using visuals

  The next step in preparation of your studio recording is to create a PowerPoint where bullet points, images, animations and videos go hand in hand with your storyline. The image below gives an insight in the template used at Leiden University when recording a knowledge clip in the studio.

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  Geert-Jan Will Affiliate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  g.j.will@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Evania Lina Fasya Phd/guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  e.l.fasya@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Beth Lloyd Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  b.lloyd@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Natural brain opioids help us “see the bigger picture” after rewards News - 2 October 2025

  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…

• The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care News - 28 January 2022

  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…

• Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm) News - 17 January 2025

  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.

• What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum News - 12 December 2022

  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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  Bernet Elzinga Professor of Stress-related Psychopathology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  elzinga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3745

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  Isabelle Hoxha Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  i.hoxha@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727