626 search results for “cognitie and language” in the Staff website
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Bert van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty of Humanities
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Amaranth FeuthFaculty of Humanities
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this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Manuals
Do you want to install software yourself at your workplace? Or would you link to sync your work email with your smartphone? On this page you will find all our ICT workplace manuals, sorted by theme.
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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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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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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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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Negation in Dutch Sign Language
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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LLRC conference 2026: Language teacher research
Conference
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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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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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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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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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Janneke GeursenICLON
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Hubert MooimanFaculty of Humanities
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Henric JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Bob van VelthovenFaculty of Humanities
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Kees GelukFaculty of Humanities
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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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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Tracy HuangFaculty of Humanities
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities