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Half a year after the childbirth more than 6% of parents have shaken their baby violently in the hope that it would stop crying. Discovering how parents react to both laughing and crying babies is therefore necessary. Research carried out by Madelon Riem has demonstrated the role of the hormone oxytocin in child-parent interaction.
15 May, Gary Lupyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 16 May, Dr. Seger Breugelmans, Tilburg University.
Labyrint is the study association for Leiden Psychology students. Apart from organising various study-related activities, Labyrint was also created to increase social contacts between psychology students, especially for the 13th Lustrum.
Certain meditation techniques can promote creative thinking. This is the outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University, published 19 April in the open access journalist 'Frontiers in Cognition'.
The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) is concentrating increasingly on research into the role of the brain in language development. The institute has now set up the LIBC Language website that brings together all the information on this research.
The results of psychiatric treatment can be improved if both the therapist and the patient receive feedback on the progress of the therapy. This is the conclusion of psychologist Kim de Jong from her research on the mental healthcare sector. PhD defence 17 April.
Starting in September 2012 Leiden bachelor's students will be able to study diverse aspects of child abuse in the new minor on this subject. They will follow subjects in Law, Medicine, Education and Child Studies, and Psychology.
Leiden University has maintained its excellent worldwide reputation, according to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Ranking published on 15 March. Leiden University has maintained its position within the 81-90 category in this top 100 of universities worldwide.
Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is what Claartje Levelt, Carel ten Cate (Leiden University) and Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) are attempting.
An overview of the Social and Behavioural Sciences PhD defences and Inaugural Lectures per calendar month.
Curiosity makes people stressed. Satisfying the curiosity works as a reward and also stimulates the memory. Researchers at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition have provided new evidence for a classical theory about human curiosity using functional MRI scans. The researchers have published an article on the subject in 'Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience'.
Have you applied for a master's programme Psychology in Leiden? Don't miss any information you'll need to start with your programme. Please, save the day in your master agenda: Master's introduction and course enrolment at Thursday 30 August 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
