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Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language 17 July 2024'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she wil...
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Reinoud Kaldewaij awarded Veni grant to measure brain and body reactions to touch 17 July 2024Part of our social contact is currently online, with no physical proximity. Does digitalisation mean that we are losing an effective way of making con...
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Want to help develop a Serious Game at Psychology Lab on Wheels? 16 July 2024Psychology Lab on Wheels makes science accessible for everyone. E-Virt is aiming at being a Serious Game that on its later stages will serve as a tool...
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Psychology students talk about their research at the Science Day 2024 09 July 2024The celebration of our up-and-coming science talent, that is the Psychology Science Day. Students stand proudly by their research posters and enrich t...
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers 11 June 2024Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project withi...
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Nutrition and fasting for the brain: why the Keto diet shows promise 03 June 2024Autism, Alzheimer’s, and bipolar disorder: can the development of these mental health conditions be influenced by the ketogenic diet? Increasingly, re...
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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone 13 May 2024Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and dis...
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype 29 April 2024Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about ...
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Reportage: training anxious children should help prevent disorders and depression 16 April 2024Scared to read aloud, put your hand up, answer a question or make a mistake at all: many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers...
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’ 08 April 2024More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue ...
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How touchscreens and eye trackers can tell us something about the dating life of orangutans 11 March 2024Aesthetic attraction plays a big role in orangutans’ mate choice, behavioural biologist and PhD candidate Tom Roth has observed. But to discover just ...
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research 20 February 2024In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive b...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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How slower breathing really helps against stress 12 December 2023People who are often stressed can feel calmer by making certain adjustments to their breathing. Possibly this also positively affects concentration an...
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Four projects awarded science communication grants 24 November 2023A climate game, a science and music festival, a mobile psychology lab and interactive sessions on anxiety in children. The Dutch Research Council (NWO...