NewsMonday 20 February, dr. Tila Pronk, VU Amsterdam; 22 February, Christine Stelzel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Mind & Brain Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 'Inter-individual variability in cognitive flexibility - the role of the dopamine D2 receptor.'
Interested in Psychology in Leiden? But you don't know yet which master's specialisation to choose? Please, visit the Psychology information day, with try-out lectures and an information market for the master's programmes Psychology, on Friday 2 March 2012.
Monthly overview of Social and Behavioural PhD defences and Inaugural Lectures.
Please consult the presentations of the master's introduction and course enrolment day on Thursday 2 February 2012.
Monday 6 February Dick Swaab, author of the bestseller ‘We are our brains’ is the honorary guest at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). He will show a number of strategies designed to stimulate the circadian timing system in order to enhance the functionality of the clock in our brain.
Please, visit the Student Information Desk or make a telephone call during opening hours for any question concerning your study.
The training for surgeons could be more realistic and more efficient if 'evidence-based' methods were used, according to surgeon and instructor Jaap Hamming. He is therefore working closely with cognitive psychologists Guido Band and Bernhard Hommel on improvements to the training. A custom-made training programme would take more account of the individual surgeons being trained.
Is attention from women different from attention from men? Leiden researchers and their colleagues in Toronto investigated the effects of the hormone oestrogen on spontaneous attention. They were hoping in this way to explain differences between the sexes. Women turned out to only be different from men when they had a high level of oestrogen in their menstruation cycle.
Can robots bake pancakes? As far as cognitive psychologist Bernhard Hommel is concerned, yes. Once they are equipped with a cognitive control system, robots can become increasingly smarter through interaction with internet. And that’s where the future lies. Robotics projects in seven European countries are collaborating in this interdisciplinary project, with a European subsidy of € 7.2 million.
‘Greater diversity would raise the quality of research.' Leiden University Vice-Rector Simone Buitendijk took part in the first European conference on women in science, on 8 and 9 November in Brussels. 'There are two aspects to this issue: female scientists and female participation in health studies,' comments Buitendijk.
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, is sixth on the list of most powerful women in Teaching and Science, according to Dutch magazine Opzij. Crone is one of the youngest female professors in the Netherlands and already has many awards to her name.
From now on you will need a LU-Card (Leiden University Card) to borrow books from the university’s libraries and to get access to the University Library.
The Expat Centre of the Leiden Visitor Centre answers questions and gives advice on a daily basis. According to staff member Expat Bob, the Leiden Expat Centre should top the contact list of any international visitor or expat to Leiden.
Of the six internationally orientated organisations housed in the newly opened International House, ISN (International Student Network) has the most international Board members. The Leiden University International House was opened on 12 October by Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Rector Magnificus, and Jeroen t’Hart, Director of Student and Education Affairs.
Het Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte vervolgt de colloquiumserie ‘Exploring New Vistas in Historiography of Science’ met een vierde serie lezingen. Op donderdag 20 oktober 2011 zal spreken prof.dr. Trudy Dehue (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), auteur van de spraakmakende studie 'De depressie-epidemie. Over de plicht het lot in eigen hand te nemen' .
During the Week of Diversity from 10 to 14 October, Leiden University will showcase its diverse international and multicultural character. The programme includes symposia, films, discussions and workshops. All students and staff are welcome to listen, taste, experience, and to join the discussions and social events.
Leiden University has climbed to 79th position in the Times Higher Education Ranking. Every year the THE World University Rankings present the top 200 of the world's best universities.
Speakers were dr. Tom Louwerse (Political Science) and professor Willem van der Does (Psychology).
Eveline Crone and Beatrice de Graaf will receive the LNVH Anniversary Prize from the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH) on the occasion of its ten-year anniversary. From 175 entries a jury of eminent academics selected the four most outstanding ones. The other two winners are attached to TU Delft and Maastricht University.
Much neuroscientific research contains a serious statistical error, cognitive psychologist Sander Nieuwenhuis has discovered. This is even the case if the research has been published in top journals such as Nature and Science.
