917 search results for “cognitive and language” in the Staff website
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
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Marianne van Dijken
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Geert-Jan WillSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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.
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Assessment formats
The most common assessment formats and points to consider when making your choice.
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.
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Tonko ZijlstraSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Arko GhoshSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Diego Barbosa Arize SantosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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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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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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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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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…
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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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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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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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Host-Gut Microbiota Changes in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment
PhD defence
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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LIBC Publieksdag 2025: hoopvolle inzichten in hersenonderzoek
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 KorsmitSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anoek LorskensSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Jolanda SnelSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Wenyu WanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Alessandro van den BergSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Lidy BontFaculty of Humanities
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Yiwen Zou
Faculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeeyoung Seo
Faculty of Humanities
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Mick Stam
Faculty of Humanities
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Annabel Meester
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmad Rifai
Leiden University Library
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities