494 search results for “neuro cognitive functions” in the Staff website
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Psychology Connected on ChatGPT: How can we use AI without losing our own cognitive skills?
Writing essays, refining grant applications, or creating a new course curriculum—ChatGPT assists students and researchers in these endeavours. What this new technology means for working in academia, was discussion at the fourth Psychology Connected event.
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Anne UraiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Franz WurmFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Szilvia BiroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter van BodegomFaculty of Science
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Daniel Schade in The Washington Post: 'Schengen hasn't been fully functioning as intended since 2015'
More European countries are introducing border controls, clashing with the ideal of free movement within Europe. Daniel Schade, Assistant Professor of EU Studies at Leiden University, analyses this development in The Washington Post.
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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Paul van den BroekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bianca BoyerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Projects 2023-2024
In 2023-2024 seven (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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As new Professor of Social Cognition and Decision, Lotte van Dillen studies how we make choices in an information-overloaded world
Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decision-making, both as individuals and as a society? And can we learn to make better choices? This is what Lotte van Dillen will explore with her profess…
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Henrik BarmentloFaculty of Science
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research
Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The prize consists of a sum of 1m euros.
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Anne Urai and Neuromatch colleagues win prize for open science
Cognitive neuroscientist Anne Urai is part of the Neuromatch Conference team. With the prize for open science, Neuromatch wants to reduce or remove barriers in financing, education, and closed networks among well-funded labs that many scientists face, by providing always-affordable, pay-what-you-can…
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Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition
Lecture
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.
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Generative AI and Embodied Cognition
Conference, workshop
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Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025
Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for her pioneering research into emotions. Kret: ‘This prize offers a wonderful opportunity to give a boost to emotion research.’
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Auke VisserASSC
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Frank GubbelsASSC
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Annemieke Hoogenboezem
ASSC
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Jeroen RuiterASSC
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Peter MagielseASSC
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Wilma WentholtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’
This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second session in March, the attendees discovered that understanding your rhythm and perspective is essential when embarking on an interdisciplinary project.
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multifaceted approach to understand cognitive impairment in MS: Exploring the nonlinearity of cognition
PhD defence
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The interaction between Arousal and Cognitive Control
PhD defence
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Michael McCabe IIIFaculty of Archaeology
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Arnout KoornneefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arie VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Veronica Janssen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Dutch Brain Cognition and Behavior Day
Conference
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Leticia Rettore MicheliFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mind tools, language and the origins of AI
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Special training and testing reveal children's potential for learning
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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Philip SpinhovenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan Vuyk. They also found indications that people with…
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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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Nina KomrijFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Review on “Anticancer opportunities at every stage of chemokine function” is featured on the cover of TIPS
Last November, Dr. Natalia Ortiz, Martijn Bemelmans (MSc), and Prof. Laura Heitman published a review in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS) on targeting the chemokine system in cancer (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2021.08.001). The review was written in collaboration with Prof. Tracy Handel…
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world
Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those who don’t like uncertainty. Researchers are now discovering that this aversion affects how we understand the world.
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Jeltje van der SteenASSC
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Willemieke van der EntASSC
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Corry van den EsschertASSC
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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time
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.