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Why there is plenty of hope for the brainLIBC Publieksdag 06 November 2025From historical understandings to new treatments: during the Public Day of the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, curious visitors learned how ra...
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Natural brain opioids help us “see the bigger picture” after rewardsCognitive flexibility 02 October 2025Feeling 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 th...
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Pre-registering your research: Extra effort, but what's the pay-off?Open Science 22 September 2025Registering your hypothesis and analysis plan online before starting your study – why should researchers bother? Henk van Steenbergen, a researcher in...
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Toddlers, apes and Japanese people helped reveal how we expressEmotions 14 September 2025An orangutan will rarely burst out in laughter when watching a video of another orangutan doing the same. A toddler will do so more than an adult, whi...
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brainBrain research 03 September 2025Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are n...
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From hormone differences to valid questionnaires: psychology students present their research at the Science Day 202519 June 2025How do you measure over-protective parenting? Why are girls more likely to develop anxiety disorders? And do the social skills of therapists really ma...
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In this museum, psychologists explore how to bring abstract art closer to children07 May 2025Children are generally not drawn to abstract art, research shows. But how exactly does abstract art affect our emotions? Through empirical research, p...
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Boost your team: Get to know each other through science, games and insights01 April 2025Discover your own and others’ behaviour during our unique team building experience, where science, emotions and games meet!
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De Hoe?Zo! Show teaches children that science is anything but boringChildren 04 March 2025Why is water wet? What is ADHD? In De Hoe?Zo! Show, curious 9-and-10-year-olds get answers to their questions. PhD candidates take to the stage to dem...
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Four Leiden professors elected members of the KHMW24 February 2025The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed four Leiden professors as members. Petra Sijpesteijn, Vanessa Mak, Mariska K...
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How can people with autism and social anxiety understand others’ emotions better?Emotions 23 January 2025A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: we understand one another better by mirroring one another’s emotions. In her PhD dissertation, ...
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Grants awarded for five innovative psychology research projects26 November 2024Researchers from the Institute of Psychology have secured NWO Open Competition XS grants, each worth up to €50,000. One of the projects explores how m...
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Children pay more attention to art when descriptions are playful and interactive09 October 2024The description of a painting directly affects how children look at that artwork. This was discovered by psychologist Francesco Walker in the Rijksmus...
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Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language17 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 touch17 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...