500 search results for “cognitie and language” in the Student website
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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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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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
- European Days of Languages
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty 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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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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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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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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Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees
What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…
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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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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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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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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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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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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
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny DoetjesFaculty of Humanities
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Muslim Futures Festival
Arts and culture, Festival
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.