2,073 search results for “animal cognition” in the Public website
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Bryant Jongkees
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marcella Pavias
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad
Faculty of Humanities
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Milan van der Kuil
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mi-Lan Woudstra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Testing vaccines without laboratory animals?
The quality of vaccines is still often tested by using laboratory animals. That has to change, according to researchers from Leiden University and the vaccinological institute Intravacc. Together they went searching for a test method that makes animal testing unnecessary. The first promising results…
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Selin Topel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marit Ruitenberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Cognitive tool for the swamp
Fred Janssen is curious about how best to teach students and students to gain a good understanding of complex ‘swamp situations’. This is the subject of his inaugural lecture as Professor of Science Education at the ICLON and the Faculty of Science. Inaugural address 19 June 2017.
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Knowledge and Culture
Morality, mathematics, geometry, geography, music, navigation, and language are traditionally viewed as uniquely human cultural achievements and abilities. The study of their development and variation is classified as part of the humanities and social sciences. These fields have been mainly studied…
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The Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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How your diet can improve animal welfare
A systematic approach to quantify impacts of food consumption on animal welfare has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University in collaboration with ETH Zurich, and effective altruism organizations.
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How artists classified the animal kingdom
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries artists were fascinated by how the animal kingdom was classified. They were in some instances ahead of natural historians.
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Anime as a source of human knowledge
Japanese animated films are often fantastic to watch. What's less known is that anime often has a political message. Mari Nakamura researched this phenomenon. PhD defence 14 March.
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Safety testing of chemicals without laboratory animals
Testing chemical substances without using animals. It seems a utopia, but a European team is going to develop a way to make this a reality. The RISK-HUNT3R project, led by Leiden professor Bob van de Water, received 23 million euros from the European Commission for this purpose. The project was launched…
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Dutch youth unfamiliar with native animal species
For the first time research has been done on species literacy in the Netherlands. Children in primary schools know about 1 in 3 native animal species. Publication in Biological Conservation.
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Workshop "The Cognitive Turn in History" (Groningen)
On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…
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MBO Rijnland students animate Leiden physics
There are miniaturisation beams, microrobots, and ice skaters who suddenly drop into a hole in the ice. Students of the local MBO Rijnland let their imagination run free while animating Leiden physics research. The result is eleven surprising and very diverse science animations.
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Laura Scherer
Science
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Tom Roth
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manon Mulckhuyse new assistant professor Cognitive Psychology
In September 2019, Manon Mulckhuyse will start a position as assistant professor in the Cognitive Psychology Unit.
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Niki Antypa
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Fenna Poletiek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Julia Folz
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michiel Claessen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jessy Terpstra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marloes van Moort
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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The parallels between quarrelling animals and humans
The journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences published its theme issue ‘Conflict across taxa’ on 4 April, which was edited by Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology Carsten de Dreu. Together with researchers from other disciplines he provides more insight…
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Aquatic animals harmed by our noise
Two PhD defences on 9 June by behavioural biologist Errol Neo and underwater acousticianan Özkan Sertlek relate to measuring noise in the North Sea and the harm this noise can do to aquatic animals and their surroundings. Little is known about how harmful human noise can be to aquatic animals.
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Biogeochemical Biographies
A multiple isotope approach to human-animal dynamics in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide
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Lab facilities Comparative Psychology and Affective Neuroscience
We study expressions of emotion and social decision making across species.
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Segments and rules: a comparative study on linguistic rule learning mechanisms
A central and much debated topic in the study of language acquisition concerns the nature of the learning mechanisms that are required. Are the computational and learning mechanisms that guide learning about language structure special and specific to language or humans?
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Henk van Steenbergen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David Amadeus Vogelsang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Guido Band
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Roderik Gerritsen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mirre Stallen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sander Nieuwenhuis
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bernhard Hommel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dietsje Jolles
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Willem van der Does
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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A micro-trial study to investigate the effectiveness of public speaking treatments in children
Which intervention technique is more effective in reducing public speaking anxiety in children aged 9 – 12 years, exposure or restructuring cognitions?
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How do you prevent viral outbreaks? By protecting animal health
Many dangerous diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola and Q fever have jumped from animals to humans. But it is not only because of these diseases that we should include animals in our health policy, but also because of their right to health, writes PhD candidate Joachim Nieuwland. PhD defence on 13 May.
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Corona waste kills animals throughout the entire world
Face masks and gloves designed to protect us are, in fact, dangerous for the animals around us. Scientists from Leiden warn that throughout the world, on land and in the water, animals are ingesting corona waste, or getting entangled in it. The two biologists are asking for everybody’s help to better…
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Hybrid conference on animation in the Middle Ages
From 16 to 19 September 2021 a hybrid conference will take place on animation in the Middle Ages. This conference is a cooperation between the University of Bergen (Norway) and the A. Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Branch Campus in Bialystok (Poland).
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2008 Culture and cognition of Palaeolithic hominins
The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.
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Species Literacy in the Netherlands
How can species literacy in the Netherlands be explained and improved?