1,723 search results for “cognitive enhancement” in the Public website
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Cognitive enhancement: Toward the integration of theory and practice
Cognitive enhancement reflects the use of any (legitimate) means such as for example food supplements to reach one’s personal best.
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Applied Cognitive Psychology (MSc)
In this specialisation you develop all the practical and academic skills necessary to apply psychological knowledge to real-life problems in working environments and organisations.
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Challenged by cognition
Toward optimal measurement and greater understanding of youth cognition in school refusal and cognitive behavioural therapy outcome
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Roderik Gerritsen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Music Cognition
Knowledge and culture subproject 1:
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Intervention targets in cognitive development
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Lorenza Colzato Professor by Special Appointment in Germany
On February 7th, Lorenza Colzato has become Professor by Special Appointment at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Psychologist Colzato: 'My ultimate goal is to understand the neurobiological underpinnings of how to elevate performance up to an optimal level.'
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Noradrenergic control of human cognition
What is the role of the noradrenergic system in human cognition?
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Guido Band
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bernhard Hommel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Enhanced coinduction
Promotores: J.J.M.M. Rutten, F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue
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Avian Cognition
Avian Cognition describes the full range of avian cognitive abilities, the mechanisms behind such abilities and how they relate to the ecology of the species. Synthesising the latest research in avian cognition, a range of experts in the field provide first-hand insights into experimental procedures,…
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Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive psychology is the study of cognitive functions such as attention, memory, consciousness, emotion, language and action control. The goal is to understand the complex relationships between brain, mind and behavior.
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Leukemia treatment & cognitive development
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Lab facilities Cognitive Psychology
Reactions and reaction times in cognitive tasks.
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Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology
- Language Processing and Cognition
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Cognitive Neuroscience (research) (MSc)
In the track Cognitive Neuroscience we focus on the investigation of the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of human cognition by means of mind and brain research.
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PhD Candidate Spatial Cognition and STEM learning
Leiden University, the Institute of Education and Child Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University is looking for a PhD Candidate Spatial Cognition and STEM learning
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Dynamic Testing and Cognitive Flexibility
What is the relationship between outcomes of dynamic testing and cognitive flexibility in young children?
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)
CERQ is a questionnaire measuring cognitive coping strategies developed by Dr. Nadia Garnefski and Dr. Vivian Kraaij.
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Dynamic Testing and Cognitive Flexibility
In this thesis, dynamic testing principles were applied to examine young children's potential for learning. Our studies focused on the role of cognitive flexibility, to further increase our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in children's ability to learn from instruction and feedback,…
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Cognitive reference points. Semantics Beyond the Prototypes in Adjectives of Space and Colour
This doctoral thesis elaborates Langacker’s reference-point model by applying it to lexical semantics.
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Enhancing access to EU law: Why bother?
In the past years access to EU law has been significantly enhanced via services such as EUR-Lex. This development not only allows for easy retrieval of individual legal acts, but for collecting information about the evolution of EU law in the aggregate as well.
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The cognitive continuum of electronic music
How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated?
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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
From The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music:
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Cognitive enhancement: Toward the integration of theory and practice
PhD Defence
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Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) is a network focusing on science valorisation and outreach, stimulating interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise on topics related to brain and cognition.
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Therapeutic intervention to enhance atherosclerotic plaque stability
Proteases degrade matrix molecules in the atherosclerotic plaque, thereby reducing atherosclerotic plaque stability. Mast cells, that contain proteases such as tryptase and chymase, have been identified at the site of rupture in specimens of human coronary arteries and their number in the plaque was…
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Research
The Cognitive Psychology Unit has two main reseach lines, which focus on basic research questions and more applied challenges.
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Implementation of an online cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for chronic pain
To what extent is “Grip op Pijn” effective and feasible in clinical practice
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Therapeutic intervention to enhance atherosclerotic plaque stability-projects
For more information regarding ongoing research projects, please contact Dr. Ilze Bot.
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Programme structure
The master's specialisation Applied Cognitive Psychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory and elective courses, a thesis and an internship.
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Anxiety and cognitive performance: better insights and new treatments
How does stress influence cognitive performance? What is the role of selective attention to threatening information in this effect? Could we prevent stress-induced decline of cognitive performance with pharmacological interventions? Could we use resting state theta/beta ratio as a biomarker for cognitive…
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Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators
On 1 April 2020, Marc Broekema defended his thesis 'Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. J.I. van der Rest.
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Effects of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation on perseverative cognition
Can excessive worrying be reduced via stimulation of the vagus nerve?
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Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding
On May 3rd, Varun de Castro Arrazola succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Varun on this great result.
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Catecholamine function, brain state dynamics, and human cognition
The work presented in this thesis addresses the role of the locus coeruleus (LC) - norepinephrine (NE) system in various aspects of human cognition, and the modulation of brain state.
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Enhancing Performance and Motivation in Lower Secondary Education
Summary
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Abstract patterns and representations: the re-cognition of geometric ornament
On May 17th, Arthur Crucq succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arthur on this great result.
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Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding
Knowledge and culture subproject 4:
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Bloomington Grove Kickapoo Creek Restoration to Enhance Biodiversity
Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?
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PhD candidate, Evaluation of ecosystem services to enhance urban biodiversity
Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
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Under Construction. Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units
This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.
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ENHANCING INSPIRATION Metric/Rhythmic modal improvisation as a tool for composition in contemporary modal music
How can we enhance inspiration in metric modal improvisation and subsequently, in modal composition?
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Cognitive and behavioural emotion regulation after negative and traumatic life events
To study relationships between emotion regulation after negative and traumatic life events and psychopathology. Within this context, another goal is to develop and validate emotion regulation questionnaires.
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Plasmonic enhancement of one-photon- and two-photon-excited single-molecule fluorescence by single gold nanorods
This thesis is a collection of experimental attempts to enhance photoluminescence of fluorescent molecules and quantum dots with single gold nanorods (GNRs) and relevant applications.
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Towards photo-CIDNP MAS NMR as a generally applicable enhancement method
Promotores: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Prof.dr. J. Matysik (Universitaet Leipzig)
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Lorenza Colzato editor-in-chief of new scientific journal
Psychologist Lorenza Colzato is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, a new interdisciplinary psychology publication. The journal will contribute to a higher understanding of research aimed at enhancing human performance and creative potential.