NewsEveline 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.
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.
Dutch youths of Moroccan origin express their anger in the same way as native Dutch teenagers. This ‘emotional integration’ applies equally to Moroccan-Dutch youths who identify with Dutch culture and to those whose primary connection is with the culture of their parents.
In the Leiden Family Lab, three generations from the same family are put under the scrutiny. Biologists, doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and educators are applying their knowledge and skills to study social anxiety, family abuse and obesity.
Children suffering from social anxiety often have a rigid posture and voice, and they don’t dare to look at their audience when giving a talk. If your child suffers from social anxiety, what can you, as a parent, do? Developmental psychologist Michiel Westenberg, one of the leading researchers of the Leiden Social Anxiety Network, explains.
Eveline Crone has been selected as 2011's recipient of the 'Early Career Award' from the Society for Psychophysiological Research.
Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon: teenagers simply do whatever comes into their head. Psychologist Jiska Peper from the Brain and Development Lab thinks that this type of impulsive behaviour is linked to the quantity of testosterone in the adolescent brain.
Anne Miers has won the PhD article award for her article: Peer Perceptions of Social Skills in Socially Anxious and Nonanxious Adolescents.
Wouter van den Bos, developmental psychologist at Leiden University, is in the spotlight. His research into the development of the brain and social development is to be published in Psychological Science . For this achievement, on 11 November Van den Bosch was presented with the ISED award of the Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development (ISED).
What happens in the brain of an adolescent when he responds to a peer? This is what development psychologist Berna Güroğlu is interested in finding out. She is using her VENI grant for young researchers to fund a three-year study on the interaction between adolescents.
Berna Güroğlu (Developmental and Educational psychology) has been awarded a NWO VENI grant. She will receive 250,000 euro to develop her ideas and carry out research over a period of three years.
If you ask 12-year-old deaf children what ‘surprised’ or ‘curious’ means, two-thirds of them are unable to indicate under what circumstances a person would experience such an emotion. They are equally unable to describe these emotions. Most of their hearing peers, on the other hand, are able to do so. Developmental psychologist Carolien Rieffe delivered her inaugural lecture on 1 November 2010 on emotional development.
Erica Bohnen (Developmental and Educational psychology) has completed her training in the Families and Schools Together (FAST) programme. She is the first certified FAST trainer in The Netherlands.
As of August 15 2010 Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone, full professor of Neurocognitive developmental psychology, joined the Programme Council for Educational Research (Programmaraad voor het Onderwijsonderzoek (PROO)).
Professor Eveline Crone (Institute for Psychology) has been awarded a 'Starting Grant' by the European Research Council. She will receive € 1.5 million for research into brain development in children and adolescents.
The Brain and Development Lab has received funds for a Collaborative Research Project on intentional inhibition of human action.
Eveline Crone (1975) was appointed as professor in neurocognitive developmental psychology at Leiden University in March 2009. She started the Brain and Development Laboratory at the section Developmental Psychology in 2005. Before Crone joined Leiden University, she received her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2003 and she had a post doc position at the Center for Mind and Brain and the University of California in Davis for 2 years. But it was much earlier that her interest in brain function started. For her master degree, she spent one year at the University of Pittsburgh where the first neuroimaging studies were performed that included young children. This is where and when her fascination for brain research started.
Anxiety and fear are suitable topics for a clinical psychologist with a keen interest in development. Fears are part and parcel of normal development. All of us have been afraid of monsters and feared separation from our caretakers. Humans would not survive without anxiety signals. At the same time, fears may grow out of hand and become maladaptive. Michiel Westenberg and colleagues wondered how and why that happens and started the SAND-study.
Developmental psychologist Eveline Crone has written a book about the uneven growth of the adolescent brain. The book deals with the complex relationship between the learning, the emotional, the creative and the social brains of adolescents. Her book will be available in the bookshops next week.
Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. This can be seen on fMRI scans of the brain. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback. Twelve-year-olds and adults can benefit more from negative feedback.
